Show me your tilly/colman lamps

Following a recent thread there seams there are a few fans out there

Hears my 3
The unleaded colman i picked up 2 years ago and needs some work.
The Tilly and the green colman i have had for 25 years and love the ritual of lighting but don't get to use them much now

 

I've got a lovely silver 1970's tilley lamp which I adore but hardly ever seem to use Must take it with us more often.

I've also just sold a red one on ebay as I somehow managed to win both auctions at the same time!!!

 

I've got my collection packed away, but the oldest one I have is from the late 1940's.

http://tgmarsh.faculty.noctrl.edu/tilleyindustriallamps.html

 

Got a new Petromax a couple of Yules ago. Build quality not as good as the old ones as I found out. Had a flair up whilst crouched over it and set me hair on fire, there was a lot more than I have after that. Ended up head first in the North Sea to put out the flames, middle of the night and the middle of january. Fettled the leaks with exhaust sealer.
Have a Kelly Kettle. Hand full of twigs and a brew in ten minutes, mint!
Piccies when I get home

 

I have a very old brass primus stove but I went off that when it flared up inside my tent on the moors in Scotland. I have a Honey Stove now and like Pony pick up a few twigs on your walk and you've got the makings for a nice hot brew when you stop.

 

I love the old primus stoves i use to have one but sold it
It was so powerful it could melt the bottom of army billy tins

 

I use a hobo stove if im out solo walking nowadays
I can either use it with bits of twigs etc or if open fire isnt a good idea in the area im in i can use it with a small meths stove
I made the stove from a stainless steel coffe container some gate hinges and some bbq skewers

 

My tilley lamp and i also have a set of tilley camping pans i use in the bus







Im still trying to bag myself a vintage thermos food flask like the one below but they always seem to sell for decent money nowadays

 

love that its on my list to make one but never get round to it

 

I have been after a tilley lantern for a while, i finally bought one like this

similar age to my van too
X246B Gold

 

Love those pans @paradox!

 

Never did get around to doing this.

The hurricane is great for the van when used with citronella lamp oil, nice soft light. Keep it in an old BDH when on the road, so no spillge or smells.
The presure lamp is a beast, light like an exploding sun. Lighting it up on Rapid Start usually gets a few worried glances from the neighbours on site. Love it though, pure theatre.

Think the old Kelly Kettle is hiding under the stairs the mo.

 

i got one a them ^^ and a coleman silver petrol n two old tilleys

 

blast from the past

 

question my family had one in the house because electric power cut where common in them days.
would and do you use them? inside?
They throw out a lot of heat don't they?
fire hazard?
fumes?
Answers would be grateful to i would very much like to stay alive?

 

Used properly they work great,we had one for power cuts in Nigeria.
Ours was an original chrome plated Tilley lamp, which I used to run on jet A1.
One night on the patio, a friends young son walked up to it, attracted like a moth to a flame, then he put his hand on the top
Tony

 

Small ones are ok...ish. That monster of mine is only good for outdoors, east up oxygen and belts out CO like an

They need maintaining and fettling quite a bit, keep on top of that and all you need to worry about is that it's a canister of presurized, flamable liquid, reliying on century old technology, with a white hot mantle on the top of it. Fumes side of things, I've done what can be done and it still smells quite a bit according to Mrs P; but then she's got a nose like a bloodhound.
http://www.petromax.de/en/

 

Yep matty, no idea were that thought came from. Just sat there and ' You know what, I never...'
Bet I've forgot summat very important.

 

I've got a old geordie lamp made my a retired coal miner the think has never been lit will send a pic in to see what you think?
My dear old uncle had around 8 of them from large to very small.

 

I added a kelly kettle to the collection a few months ago
It will be riding in the van with us when it goes back on the road