Lantern collections?

[Dave Shepard]

Wiki says the byproduct is acetylene, heat, and calcium hydroxide. Calcium hydroxide has a lot of uses, so I don't know what the issue is.

 

[No_Bivy]

The Terrence Marsh Lantern Gallery

Gas Pressure Lanterns, Lamps, Stoves, Heaters and Irons

terry-marsh.com

everything and then some for gas pressure appliances. Pretty interesting the amount of different things made back then

 

[pantheraba]

The Coleman irons are cool. Huge amount of cool stuff there.

 

[ruel]

That mica screen is so cool! There is an old abandoned mica mine across the river from me, occasionally boat over for a cool sparkly hike up to it.

Not sure the era it was operating, but ive Always wondered what the heck they did with it.

 

[lxskllr]

This candle lantern uses mica "glass"...

Portable Stonebridge Candle Lantern

The Stonebridge Lantern: a folding candle lantern made of brass with clear mica lights (windows). Design patented in 1906, used in the field in WW1.

garrettwade.com

I wonder how hard it would be to cut your own lenses from pieces found at the mine? A lot of cool stuff you could make with that.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Pawn shop score.

A Coleman 426a three burner stove and a Deitz no.80 road flare.

 

[stikine]

Nice...the pbr isn't open...wth?

 

[FireFighterZero]

Haha!

The situation has since been corrected.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Near as I can tell....the road flare is NOT to be called a "smudge pot".


A smudge pot is a large diesel burning contraption used to keep fruit trees from freezing apparently.

 

[No_Bivy]

nice. The three burners are awesome. Hard to find these days. That one is definitely older with a round tank that fills on the end.

never seen one of those road flares before......or at least they haven't caught my eye but I will be on the lookout. How much?

also, note the Coleman has no warning labels. it because it was made before lawyers were invented.