If the wick is clean, the chimney bleed holes are clear, using clear kerosene and there is no breeze blowing on the unit, there is very little smell.

@@greghall_The_TechEditor oh, ok thanks

Not enough power on that line. It has to be connected to a switched power lead like I did at the fuse panel under the steering column. UPDATE: my original unit failed after 1.5 yrs. Mine was the early model with the Yellow horn actuation wire with the internal relay. When reordering the original part # again, I received the electronics box that does not have the yellow horn actuation wire. You have to now install a relay to get the unit to activate by the horn button per Lamphus. Did that and it now works again.

Good info. I just received the newer version without the yellow wire and was confused because both models have the same #. So I wasnt sure what was going on. Looking at the instruction sheet now makes sense vs looking at the old yellow wire model schematics online. But installing my own relay sounds like a plan either way. Thanks for the video.

I couldn't tell you who made the glass bases, no makers mark. Most likely the lamp makers sourced the glass from an outside glass firm. I picked one style of wall hung glass base (because there are many styles) and then started collecting that style only for all my wall hung lamps for visual continuity. Same for the cast iron wall mounts too.

Shetler's Wholesale 630 High St, Geneva, IN 46740 (260) 368-1473 or direct from the manufacturer at Schwartz Manufacturing 1261 W 200 S, Berne, IN 46711

P&A Eagle #3

@@greghall_The_TechEditor thank you! Where is a good place to purchase?

@@DipsetTheAdon Either Ebay or an Antique Shop or festival

thoughts on this?

Cooking oil is too viscous to work well in a wick lamp. The capillary action would be too slow for much light. Liquid paraffin oil works fair but not as bright as Kerosene as long as it is not too cold or the paraffin oil will solidify into Vaseline! Plus cooking oil likes to smoke way more than Kerosene. In my opinion, a Kerosene flat wick lamp works best with Kerosene, not Diesel, Paraffin, or cooking oil.

@@greghall_The_TechEditor Thank you :) What about round wick oil lamps/lanterns

@@essare108 Center Draft lamps can operate on Kerosene but they burn the brightest on either Klean Heat or Mineral Spirits

Interesting that nowhere on their web site is it spelled as two words???

Only as a backup when I run out of Kerosene! :)

True, although you would not get the focused 12 CP beam 30 ft out.

Switched via ignition and it will stay on approx. 30 minutes after ignition off.

@@greghall_The_TechEditor thanks!

I know of no way to convert an electrocuted base back to Kerosene. My advice is look for the SOCONY burner.

Not a fairy tale Boot! It is used every day!

I did not receive a 300 manual with the heater. I looked in the 301/302 manual and the exploded diagram does not show an internal fire valve nor is it listed in the safety items on page 3. Plus on page 32 it states:"NOTE: An additional shut-off valve installed next to the heater will minimize fuel to be drained should the heater have to be disconnected. If the valve is on interior side, a fusible link type is recommended." Therefor I stand by my installation as correct. The exhaust vent for the 300 series is the same as the 30. According to here: www.ruralenergy.com/20479891-toyotomi-flue-pipe-4-to-9-all-models, it fits all models of Laser heaters. Rotating the unit provides customization during installation. Therefor replacing a serviceable exhaust with the exact same model is foolish. These exhausts are designed for decades of service.

Tank is 18" above the level of all the Laser heaters.

Specs say 900 for 5 seconds, so it is a little under 50% but considering being dead AND 5 yrs old, it was worth the effort to save it because this winter it still cranks the Honda Blower motor over just like new.

Yes. They recreated 1885 technology! And they cost more than an original antique!

Dear nealbain8736, my interest in oil lamps started a few months back when I “restored” a Feurhand lantern for a friend. I took the rust off and made it workable. There is something very satisfying about taking some rusty neglected object and bringing it back to use. I am currently impoverished and am seeking further lamps to restore to buy at car boots for a £1 or £ 2, and resell on. The current project is a Chalwynd , “Far East” lantern. So rusty you couldn’t see the makers name. Today I picked up a Lewtas Duplex lamp which is now working. It only needs a polish. But I am interested in suitable fuels. Pure Kerosene doe not seem easily available here in the UK. I know the general lamp oils contain various waxes, And will coagulate in below freezing temperatures. You mention white spirit. Have you found it gives a brighter less smoky flame? Whatever, all the best. I have to admit when you start on oil lamps it does become a “rabbit hole”. Feuerhand, Chalwynd, Dietz, Aladdin, Tilley …….etc.

@@philsharp758 It's great how addictive it all is and how much around is still Victorian era. I've been playing with a Messenger's round wick lamp. They went bust in 1935. and had been around for a good century by then (I think). It's hard to tell if it was designed for a mantle like an Aladdin or if it had a flame spreader. There was a fuel from Caldo Fuels (I think) that was called ROLF- Relatively Odourless Fuel that I was given to try in my workshop. I used it in pressurised paraffin stuff and it seemed OK but I didn't have any wick lamps there at that time. I don't know if it is still around. I don't know what the difference is between White Spirit and Turpentine substitute but I find them both marginally less smoky and slightly more volatile than paraffin. Some lamps need a specific weave of wick and a thicker oil. I'm thinking of coach or dray lamps which were bounced around on the road. I know bicycle oil lamps needed a thicker oil too and I know of one historian who mixed up Johnson's baby oil with something. I've got a coach lamp (a Palmers?) that has a lovely light but dangerously overheats on paraffin. Chadwynd is familiar name. Something very similar to that name appeared on roadwork oil lamps that were still in use in the 1990's

@@neilbain8736Chalwynd operated from 1943 until 1989. Along with their various models of hurricane lamps, they did make the burners for the old style lamps used in road works in the UK. I find it fascinating to discover the history of the manufacturer, And I have admiration for the designers and workers who made these lamps. All the best Phil Sharp.

@@neilbain8736 A book by Cecil B. Meadows "Discovering Oil Lamps" mentions the use of colza, which is rapeseed oil, now added to biodiesel, as the choice for coach lamps..

How do you propose to recharge those LED lights with no power? Power bank? That only works until that is depleted. Recharge with solar. Generally when the power is out, there is weather preventing the sun from reaching the solar panels. Generator? Sure, that would work if you thought to have any fuel available and if the generator is gas, you didn't leave gas in the carburetor from the last time you ran it 3 yrs ago. And not everyone has a spare $500 + for a generator. A kerosene lamp and a gallon of kerosene will provide days of light. And the Kerosene can be stored for decades.

I render out adipocere for my lamps. The smell is ghastly, but it lasts longer than yer standard Jet A-1 fuel.

I’d have to go and get a KFC

Inside the house it can not be heard. Outside it is more of a whir, like from a low pitched fan, probable no more than slow conversation level.

Absolutely! Kerosene was developed decades before diesel. Why develop diesel as a fuel long before the internal combustion engine was developed??

They used to be colloquially called kerosene lamps because you burned kerosene in them. Before that, they used whale oil, but it quickly lost favor as kerosene is cleaner and cheaper. Going back to ancient times, olive oil was popular as it smelled good and was clean burning.

@@robertgaines-tulsa possibly it's just the naming that confuses me. I'm from germany. Here we call this lamps "Petroleum - Lampen". "Kerosene" we call the fuel used in jet engines. But possibly its infact this jet engine kerosene that can also be used in oil lanterns ?

Apparently you enjoy breathing diesel injector pump lubricant fumes. :)

You're paying road taxes with diesel. Heating oil is basically the same thing except maybe with less weird additives in it and without the road taxes.

Are we talking about liquid paraffin?

that is a vintage Eagle Lamp filler. I purchased mine on Ebay and restored it,

@greghall_The_TechEditor ok , thanks for the reply , great videos