Tilley Lamp, Instructions. Anyone need them?

Ah!, can't you remember, the little wick gadget that you had to dip in metho, then just clamp it onto the bottom of the vapouriser tube that the mantle was attatched to. light it and wait a while till it burnt down and by that time there was enough heat at the mantle, pump up a bit of pressure and then turn on the valve to let the kero thru and POP! the mantle would start to glow, as it heated a bit more, keep pumping up more pressure. What a great invention, its all we had for lighting back home when we where nippers.

Cheers Axle.

Know where ya coming from smudger, lived and learned for years by the old tilley...how I'd love one now, if only just for posterity ...aahhhhh they were the days...Not bright enough, give it a few pumps, up she comes.
Sorry, I'll just slip back into dream land.
Fred.

Axle, what you said, I remember!!!!! LOL

Any Tilleys for sale, please MM me. :-)

Fred

Google kerolamps.com
Guy has a shop at Braidwood between Canberra and Batemans Bay he has every type of kerosene lamp including the Tilley.
Good Luck.

Yeah, remember it all, trying to do school work by the old tilly lamp, we have two here and other kero lamps as well. I think I lit that old tilly that many times I will never forget how to light it. Geez, those were the days. kerosene lamps and kerosene 'Icemaster fridges' anyone remember them? Electrolux had one out as well. (fridge that is)

Cheers

Deanna

Fred
No.................I'm not for sale.

but the lantern is well named eh.

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Good one Doug :-)))

You're all bloody mad. Fancy wishing those dangerous bloody things back. Next you'll be extolling the virtues of kero fridges and comparing notes on the best hurricane lamp to get. Or candles.

We had them in the army, hard to light and how we didn't kill ourselves is beyond belief.

They were referred to as, "One flash & you're ash lamps".

They are easy enough to get going, you need metho to pre-heat the jet area, and they can run on kero or white spirit.

They leak kero over everything, so if you like the smell of kero, go for it.

Personally, my wife likes gas light, claims it's more romantic. I like the ambiance of the light through a glass of vintage (it must be at least 3 days old) green ginger wine, or Dr. Jurd's Jungle Juice.

Dick

Dick....you were doin OK there until you owned up to drinking Dr. Jurds LOL LOL :-)

Fred (@Cessnock..Home of Dr. Jurds)