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Subject Topic: New Vapalux lantern - Very impressed! Post Reply Post New Topic
PersonGareth29
29/8/2012 at 11:46am
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Well, new to me! Bought from an autojumble on the weekend for £20.

New mantle, filled up with paraffin and fired her up, beautiful, bright lantern that puts my Coleman Northstar duel fuel to shame!

Having to pre-heat these type of lanterns is not for most people but once lit they give off a lovely light for outside, not something that can be recreated with led ect. I believe the lantern was made between 1945-1970ish. Will have to post a pic up when I get chance.


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PersonFrancais
29/8/2012 at 4:27pm
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Yep, they are a lovely lantern, Father-in-law gave me his a couple of years back, it had been gathering dust in his garage for 40 odd years.

Cost me around £30 to bring it back to life, including new glass.

BaseCamp do a service kit for all the rubber seals etc.

Sadly FiL passed away last March at 86, so the lantern is now even more special.

It's a Bialladin 300X so same as Vapalux, which are now being made in Korea to a very high standard, new price is around £140 so I guess you got a bargain.

I run mine on Paraffin Extra which has almost no odour, nice to have such a lantern, especially to show the kids, who are always agog when they see it Glowing.

Even in this modern age, there is nothing else that can give as nice a Glow as a Parrafin Pressure lantern.


PersonGareth29
29/8/2012 at 6:36pm
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Yes been reading up on them the last few days and the company history, very interesting reading. I believe they supplied the army with these from 1938-2010, so they must be good pieces of kit and not just 'built to a price', or so the expert's who collect them tell me.

To buy the same one as mine now (M1) would cost £172.00, so yes £20.00 is a bloody good price! Wish I had picked the other one up next to it now as well! Vapalux M1B


Personalahol2
29/8/2012 at 11:46pm
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We take 2 with us whenever we camp.  Brilliant light in all senses of the word.  Even keeps the tent toasty on cold evenings.  Not really any good if you've got young children around but otherwise peerless.

Quick tip, use a fueller bottle to store and fill the meths tray...

http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/2051_1_1147350.html

Check ebay for cheaper/smaller if required.


PersonGareth29
30/8/2012 at 5:49pm
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Hamster bottle
does the same job but cheaper too.


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Personspudz
02/9/2012 at 7:26pm
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Lovely lantern!

I'm sure I've posted these photos on here before, but any excuse to do so again.

Before



After



Love that glow!

p.s. the Optimus 45 stove in photo #2 had been used earlier in cooking the dinner and I added it to the photo purely for the effect of the golden brass colour.

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Are we there yet?


PersonGareth29
07/9/2012 at 10:57am
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Liking that stove spudz, does it get much use whilst your camping? Really getting a taste for all things retro lately. I've just bought a swan 3 pan thing off the bay last week for my set up. The older things just seem better made by miles and miles!



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