Beiträge von Quidam

Thanks doron papo with the last post i tried it a few times. And i'm not a complete idiot so with evry try when it went wrong i thought what i could do to fix it.
Sinds you didn't tell me if i should open the wheel or not i experimented with that. Closed doesn't work, the kerosene does vaporise but there is not enough gas to light the lamp.
completely open doesn;t work either cause than liquid kerosene poppes out again. But when u turn it about 1/3 open it works kinda. I did do some practise open/close build presure and release presure. but after 5 or 6 tries i got the lamp going .. SO THANKS A LOT.

In the end i'm happy and sad at the same time. Happy because i know i can use the lamp. But sad because it doens't work as it should do. Maybe in the near future i wil ask for your help once more to dismantle the lamp and try to fix the main problem.

Thanks again.

yes i am from holland and it's raining here now so i wil try it a soon as the sky clears.

First i use what the dutch call petroleum (i use what is discribed in the dutch manual) it catches fire when it hits 70 degrees celcius.
Second only a few strokes with the gripwheel closed. The needel of presure meter didn't even move yet. And i preheated with alcohol for about 2 minutes.
Third it's a original PETROMAX HK 500.
And i think it's odd i was al excited when the shopkeeper finaly caved and gave me a new one. i thought evrything would be okay with the new one.
And i did evrything according to the manual i got the original manual where i used the english language and a translated manual from the shop, but both manuals tell me the same thing.

Well lets start at the beginning .. i took the lamp back to the store and with some arguing i got a new one frome the shop owner.
So i did what i needed to do when u use the lamp for first time, reading the instructions once more to make sure i did evrything right. And again ..the first time it al went great. after 5 minutes i turned off the lamp took off the presure and let it cool down. After 1.5 hours i tried it again and the same problem happend again.
SO .. i tried to do it the way doron papo discribed in earlyer reply. I put some alcohol in the alcohol in the cup .. made sure the lamp was turned "off" lighted the alcohol waited for over 2 minutes for the alcohol to nearly burn all the way., Started pumping and again a tiny liquid stream of petrol came out of the nozzle. i quickly took off al presure and tried to blow out the flame in the cup ... but to late the whole lamp caught fire again .. including the pavement.

I'm starting to give up, i bought the lamp because i liked the look of it But all the fun is gone about now.

thanks for the quick reply, i did what u told me .. first the turning of the wheel then the knocking and after that some bashing to make sure i did evrything i could , but the problem remains. I thought about dismanteling to see what is wrong but in the manual i noticed a lead ring'(90) that cant be used twice .. i don't got a spare one and don't know where to get it in holland. (it's not included in the repair set either)

By the way i see that Csturla has got the same problem i got.

Hi all,

I got a quiestion about the HK500.
I got the lamp for 2 days now and the first time i used it it all went pefectly.
But now when i try to use him the second time i put the needed presure on the lamp and when i used the pre heater the whole lamp caught fire. I quickly turned of the lamp and decreased the presure and it took me a while to put out the fire.
After 10 minutes of cooldown i took of the hood to check out what was wrong. I noticed that when i put presure to the lamp a tiny stream of liquid petrolium comes out of the spray nozzle and ofcourse the gripwheel was in the right potion (closed).

I find it hard to believe the lamp is allready broken so i must have done something wrong so i hope some one here can help me with this problem.