Cold wheather is coming in my town, and stayng in the garden playng with my lamps & stoves is becoming unconfortable. I use them only outdoors, so after a summer of cleaning, changhing and tryng with fun, it's time to put them at rest in the best way.
I'm a newcomer in this collection, so as usual I need opinions.
I suppose I have to empty all fountains, and after this , the question is:
Should the fountains and the ducts ( carburettor etc.) washed with some solvent to clean them? I've worked a lot of time to remove black tarnish from the inside of my lamps, and the idea that next spring I have to do it again, is a nightmare!
All suggestions about this argument are welcome!
From Italy: Carlo Bianconi
The right way to store pressure lamps
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Hello Carlo,
use your lamps during the winter.
Hartmut
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or store it in the dry cellar.
Ciao
Hartmut
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Hello Carlo,
my opinion is also to use the lamps during winter
I use my lamps all the year either the petrol lamps or the lamps for unleaded gas. If you don´t like the smell of petrolio and you want to use your petromax indoor you can modify it easily to burn with white spirit. There is a adapter for white spirit/methanol burning in the pelam shop I didn´t find it in the english shop but in the german shop it is called Spritus adapter
Here the link to the picture of it http://www.starklichtlampe.de/german/images/ezsp.jpg
And here the link to the shop
http://www.starklichtlampe.de/german/assets/s2dmain.html?http://www.starklichtlampe.de/german/index2.html</a>
So you can run your px indoor without the smell and with less sound because you don´t need so much pressure to use the lamp with white spirit. Another good effect of the lamps is that you need less energy for heating. A px 500 gives you 400 W light power and ca. 1200-1500 W heating power. Start five lamps in your room and after five minutes its warm
If you decide to use them not over the winter period I would empty the fountains and perhaps you cold spoil the tank with aceton. But I think it not necessary if you fill in clear petrolio in the next spring. Petrolio needs a longer time to get that muddy constitution that needs hours and hours to get out of the fountain. Then let them dry inside in a warm place and store them dry in the cellar or something. By the way the aceton is not so good for the rubber coatings of the fountain valve. So don´t make this procedure very often/long or remount the vapourizer.An greetings from a friend of mine who lives next to me from Berchidda to Bologna
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Hallo
In Winter i dont use my lamps too
i burn them until they aree empty and put a little bit of Oil into the tank an then i pump a little bit of pressure into the tank and open the carburator a short time, so that the oil can reach all parts of the carburator.
Than i spray a liitle bit of oil over the whole Lantern an put the lamp into a box in a dry and cold cellar.
I hope that i could help you.
Have a nice day.
eugen j. keusen
