Some recent experiencies, any help would be good:
I used Biltema's "exhaust pipe paste" to lock burner #3 and it's upper part #34 to mixture tube #33 and also "safetywire" from #3 to #33, standard galvanized steel wire. But not with so good results:
And also i used 50% lamp oil and 50% paraffine oil mixture, as i could
read from forum that paraffine oil is also usable. Only to find out that
most likely that "strange" behavieur was from that. When i shut down
lamp, it was DRIPPING oil all over, from every place !
After some use, i noticed strange behavieur and shut down lamp. Exhaust pipepaste was giving little fumes (or so thought, could be also paraffine oil) , and thought that will be fine, but then i noticed that burner #3 WAS CRACKED BROKEN. ARGH !!!
Iäm not sure yet, but seems that paraffine oil is so stiff that it won't vaporize well, or walve in tank is not working anymore after that test. It gave some "gurling" sound while it was in use. And it spew unevenly "gushes" out of vaporizer tube, like "vomiting".
After a quite nerve wracking tests, lamp dripped oil almost one week, when left alone, it was everywhere...
After week, i managed to coold bit down, and starter to examine damages:
So i examined lamp, to notice that #3 was broken, but when starting to dismantle lamp, it seemed to be almost impossible task ! I wouldn't recommend anyone to use these "exhaust pipepaste"-products, because if and when you need to change #3 burner, you need dynamite for that task.
So, i put #33 to my filing bench, heated whole assembly ( #3 and #34 )with heat gun, and rapidly cooled #33 with water. Then grapped #3 with good pliers, and forcefully tried to open joints. It took three tries, before joints could be opened ! And with my full 100kg force. So i DEFINITELY WON'T recommend to use those additives to threadjoints, by my experience.
Also when i wanted to save some money ( as these tests make big whole to my wallet ), i cleaned all threads, but even that was big pain in the ass. First i broke what was left of #3. Then i had some dental doctor's spike/sting, to clean rest of those threads.
Conclusion: As written in Biltema's paste tube: "...product expand and fill all joint's...", and that safety wire wasn't installed too tightly, i am almost sure that this paste caused #3 to crack, by expanding with heat !Or then these two combined, can't be too sure...As before this "locking", #3 and #34 loosend every time i used lamp, so something must be done, but what ?
Any ideas ? I am exhausted, to be honest.
Best regards,
FinLamp