Mesh or frost glass gas light?

I had a glass lense on my coleman petrol lamp, and replaced it with the mesh.
Mesh gives out good light, and even in windy conditions was ok when I thought it would affect it.
If you dent it, you can push out the dent.

When other lanterns glass breaks, I will replace with mesh.
No issues so far with rust, but I dont leave them out in the weather between use.

Trains

Hi there, I have a mesh from K mart, it has a light output halfway between the clear and the frosted glass... After about 6 glass units, i have had the S/S mesh for about 3 years and no probs.. Michael

My experience is the same as above, I found that the light output was drasticlly reduced using mesh compared to glass, so I found myself using a lot more gas.
With the glass, the light was very bright so I turned the gas down to almost off still giving plenty of light, with the mesh however it still give adequate light but it needs a bit nore juice to be efective.
Pros and cons, more gas no but broken glass at $20 plus a pop.
Shane