Hello,
this typ of latern was painted usually in yellow because it was used mostly at road construction site, to back up at the barriers.
Also used by the Bundeswehr but then it was painted nato green an was in a steel box with a red an yellow glass.
Greetings
Julian
Hi <$name>!
The 276 storm cap was used very often in the commercial sector, especially by construction companies and city administrations. The lanterns were used to illuminate danger spots and construction sites at night. They were replaced by battery-operated lamps at the end of the 1960s.
The yellow color for such purposes is required by law in Germany and is called "traffic yellow", color code RAL 1023.
The storm cap was also available in so-called "lighting boxes" for the Bundeswehr. Here the color was - as already written - "nato-oliv" (exactly RAL 6014 "yellow-olive" - color of vehicles and equipment until 1984 (wikipedia)).
At the customer's request, the lanterns were certainly also available in other colors. Private people also bought them just tinned without painting.
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Micha.
Danke für die ausführliche Erklärung
this typ of latern was painted usually in yellow because it was used mostly at road construction site, to back up at the barriers.
And many of the yellow Lamps had been stolen during their use at the barriers by "normal" people for personal needs or had been given free to employes when they had been replaced by electrical stuff.
Actually, many of thoese who slept for decades in basements, attics and sheds are rediscovered by heirs or house clearencers and fluting the markets.
Hi,
I guess you mean the additional wick used in the 70 and 120hrs special versions to increase the transport of the fuel to the burning wick over higher distances.
In German it is called SAUGHILFE (please use searching function with this word).
There are several threads how to replace the missing suction aid wick.
The early versions had a metal tube installed an this tube was filled with cotton threads addtional to the burnig wick.
Later on, the tube was left and a piece of felt was used instead. This felt had a slot und the burner wick was sticked through this slot.
Some pictures of the variations are here: https://www.pelam-forum.de/cor…hment/18152-cimg7347-jpg/
N.B. cotton rifle cleaning wicks e.g. as used on military assault rifles are working well as suction aid.
Iguess, this is , because th capillary action is by far better in cotton, than in metal wick.
It's only recent , that glassfiber wicks have been introduced. E.g. replacing asbestos wicks.
And the "hairstyling"-work on the hot end of cotton wigs in case of the finetuning to the flame seems to me far easier than it might be on glasfiber.
