Michael,

I dont collect blow lamps but I do collect campingstoves, 135 and counting, first of all you need to make sure the jet is clean, the adjusting screw acts like a tap to increase or decrease the flow of paraffin, inside the heat sheild is there a coil, coming and returning to the tank. Unscrew the filler cap and check to see if there is some lead blocking a small hole, this is the fusible plug which melts if the temperature is to high, this needs to be intact.

As you have said there is a well this is where you put meths to heat the coil, using the heat paraffin is drawn up and vapourised once its nice and hot open the valve vapourised paraffin is allowed to leave and be ignited by the meths which when the meths runs out the vapourisation is kept running by the paraffin.

Martin P

Michael,

Your lamp maybe a Monitor No 43 A petrol lamp, you may find this site useful http://blowlamp.co.uk/

Martin P

Edited By martin perman on 03/09/2016 18:57:33

Don't get me started…

Martin.

I'v got a Sievert lamp (was my Plumber Grandfather's), it's like Rainbow's one, it will run on petrol or white spirits.

To start it, after filling the tank, pour some meths in the little trough on top, close the valve, light the meths, and when the flame is near finished open the jet. This lamp is the reason I went over to a gas torch, one day I was at the garage door way when the flame blew back through a leak in the control valve spindel, I dropped the lamp on my toe, and kicked it across the back yard, I don't know if it was the trip through the air, or the sudden stop, but the flame went out. It's been repared, and it sits on the shelf.

Ian S C

Thank heavens, I was beginning to think you had a death wish.

The military petrol stove mention by Rick was basically the same cooking stove we cooked our meals on our tanks and ferrets well into the late 1970's.

On exercises our cooks delighted us with their fiery early misty morning displays of petrol vapour lighting up the ground around their cooking trenches with the British army No1 burners, brave men.

**LINK**

I still use a optimus petrol stove from the early 70's

Cyril

Edited By Cyril Bonnett on 07/09/2016 23:39:50

The Kiwis will know what I'm on at, the Thermette, the NZ army used them in North Africa, it's said that you could tell the New Zealanders had been here, a little pile of ash about 6" diameter. These things are like a vertical boiler, about 18" tall, and 6" dia. Most of them made of tin plate steel, posh ones made of copper, a hand full of little sticks, and about 5 minutes and the cupper is boiled, some people made a support to go on top where you could put a fry pan. The army also had a stove made from petrol cans (square 4 gal), under this a tray of sand, some petrol pour into the sand, and lit up, this was to cook for a platoon. I think the British army also used the petrol stove, it was known a a Benghazi burner.

Ian S C

Edited By Ian S C on 08/09/2016 10:08:57