Beiträge von csturla

Thanks!

Now it works back, it's always an emotion to see a >80 years old lantern coming back to life

HI Folks, long time I don't partecipate to this forum, hope you are all good!

I'm restoring an old Petromax that I purchaser recently and I need your help to confirm my assumptions for its age and model (the lavbel il missing).

I join some pictures of the lamp and the elements that for me indicate that it should be an 838/300 built around 1939 and 1941, possibly on April 1940 if I interpretate well the inscription in the bottom.

What do you think?

Thanks!

Carlo

Thanks All for your help! I could remount the lamp and it works I attach a couple of pictures. It's always impressing to me how after 80 years all parts still work without needing any replacement (excepting gasket and washer of course...)

Just a last question: do you know why the tank often loses its chrome while the other components keep it quite as new? Is it just because people consumes chrome handling with their hands? Or is it the type of metal?

Thanks again !!!

Carlo

Hi Matthias and all,

I finally cleaned it much better and I can see the numbers you can check in the attached picture, it seems "11 9", does it mean November 1939?

Thanks!

Carlo

Thanks Andy for the suggestion! Tool made and pump unmounted

Cheers,

Carlo

Hi, searching on Internet I found that there is a similar pump check still used in the modern Petromax stove https://www.pelam.de/en/lampen…til-mit-bleidichtung.html .

Is this the tool that I need then? https://www.pelam.de/en/lampen…schluessel-no-1-no-2.html

Thanks

Hi All,

I just started unmounting a Petromax 828/300 that I introduced in the collector's section: Can you help to find model (and date) of this this Petromax ?

I immediately need your help as the pump valve element seems pretty different from the "modern" ones that I unmounted in the past with a screwdriver.

I join a picture, could you help me to find out which tool is better to use? Do you know if the washer and the valve core are the same than in the modern lamps ?

Just to decide if I really want to unmount it or check if it works as it is once the rest repaired.... :-))

Thanks!

carlo

Thanks Matthias, I tried cleaning it gently with soap and water but I can't find anything else (to be honest my eyes even don't see the "8" :-)....

But it's not important! You helped me a lot to find the model and I know is around 1939/1940 !

I will now spend some time to repare it and I will post a picture when (and if...) it works.

(I post a picture that I took after the cleaning just in case, even if I can't see any difference...)

Cheers, Carlo

Don't know if this can help, but the heater is positioned more "internal" than the other Patromax rapid that I have;

Thanks,

Carlo

Thanks Matthias, very useful !!!

I looked in the bottom but I can't find anything... I attach a couple of pictures in case a more trained eye could see what I don't

Cheers,

Carlo

Hi All, I recently purchased this lamp in the pictures in pretty bad conditions and I wanted to try restoring it. The tag is quite not readable and I would appreciate your help to identify model and year. Reading in different forums my understanding is that:

• There is a spoon pre heater ==> should be after 1939
• the logo contains a E inside the G ==> should be before 1943
• I can read something similar to 828 in the old tag, possible?

Any other topic that could help the identification?

Thanks in advance !

Carlo

Thanks Martin!

Hi, I have an old Petromax with a broken "spoon" pre heater like the one in the attached picture. Do you know if it's possible to purchase this somewhere? I think I can adapt the latest version but I would like keeping the original design.

Thanks!

Thanks Björn,

you right! (of course :-))

My washer was probably not 100% well formed, I pushed it a bit more and I could enter it in the hole.

No more problems

Carlo

Hi, i'm reparing a pretty old Petromax CP250 (kerosene) and I tried using the same #90 washers than for CP500 (for carburator and rapid) but the holes in the tank are smaller.
Is there a specific #90 for CP250? Looking in the Pelam site they looks the same reference...

Thanks in advance for your help!
Carlo

Hi, do you know if it's possible to convert a gasoline Genio CP250 from the Swiss army to use kerosene ? Do I just need to change the upper part of the vaporizer or there is anything else?

By the way I could't find he uppoer vaporizer as spare at Pelam... I suppose it's different from the CP500 one?

Thanks!
Carlo

Thanks for your answers!
What are, in your opinion, the most valuable mantles? I've seen somewhere in the forum a suggestion for the Coleman Top Gold...

Carlo

Hi, maybe this information is already somewhere in the forum but I couldn’t find it…

I restored an old CP350 (with a 350 nozzle) and tested it with some CP500 mantles, no problems it works properly

I also ordered some CP400 mantles at Pelam and tested this weekend to see any difference, I couldn’t test because 2 of them got broken during first burning…maybe due to their quality

So I continue using CP500 mantles as they seem work good, but I’m wondering what the real difference is?

Do you know the answer? Is there any issue using CP500 mantles on CP350 lanterns?

Thanks!
Carlo

Hi All,

i recently bought a Petromax 828/350 with domino rapid and, below the tank it's written 5137 which, if I understood correctly the rule :-), should mean that it has been built the day 7 (sunday), week 51 in 1963.

I checked and it was on Sunday December 28th 1963.

Is that correct? I was surprised to know that Petromax people was working on sunday in the Chrstmas period, the world changed in the meanwhile

Thanks,
Carlo

Cool I was surprised to see that they sell different mantles for the 350 and 500, do you know what the difference is? (Size? Material?)

Thanks again,
Carlo