Pressure lamps: gaslighting on the go

Kerosen lamp tips: always practice with your tools before an emergency. You can also use them indoors as opposed to a regular coleman. To reduce smells, keep the wick clean and light it and extinguish it outside.

A huge benefit to kerosene is how long you can store it.

Wow! Your outside is Awesome!

I remember the old "Hippolito" pressure kerosine stoves that you used metho to start them.

Thorium is everywhere. Not some Strontium 90 RTG....

"This has an octane rating of about 50, so it's not great for use in any remotely modern combustion engines"

The Fiat Maluch, capable of running on pure Kerosene: Is this some Western joke I'm too Polish to understand?

Have all these ancient lampe but the lcd lamps at the dollar store beat all them. Have a kerosun moonlighter no smell cotton wick

you can purchase a filler for the lamps that negates the removal of 50%of the lamp to fill with metho ,also lived with petromax lamps equal they said to 500cp for several years no problems ,no metho needed,and to purchase metho was a trail as it required a permit due to consumption by the locals SO WAS SOLD IN SMALL AMOUNTS ONLY , fitted home made metal shades and painted white elevated and good light where was I tpng in the 60s no power where we were ,burned kero ,as we had it in 20gallon drums ,far out did the Coleman lamp, just pump pressure stick a match in the blower f and wait a a short time then switch on and poof away it went usually ran for 4 hours before a re pump was required,good German technology. usually had a hurricane as a stand by for emergency light ,you call then something else .

I have never got on with gas mantles, they are so fragile and I am so clumsy.

You do know that LED-Lanterns with a built in Solar Panel are thing....

“Here’s a package from Amazon

Here’s a Geiger counter”

Geiger = Violinist in German. So you are counting violinists.
Btw., we had Petromax lamps in the German civil defence up to the 1990s. I learned how to operate, repair and maintain them while I was serving with them. A few years ago I bought a bunch of them surplus as emergency lighting. I can get waste jet fuel very cheaply.
Bhe double ended mantles seem to be the ones used for older Petromax lanterns, where they were were tied up at both ends for better stability.

Later Petromax lanterns have a preheater burner, which uses some of the air pressure to atomise some of the kerosene to preheat the generator. It is a bit noisy, but you don't have to take the lamp apart. They still have an alcohol cup as a backup.

I use an old single mantle Coleman for 50 years. Plenty of heat and light.

I got triggered so many times during this video intro

The “… or Reginald” makes me laugh too much

Funny how lead is still in jet fuel.. for ingine knocking?🤔

We had a Coleman gas lamp at hunting camp. My buddy needed to fill generator with gas as it was getting dark. He used the Coleman lamp to light the job. The lamp ignited the vapors from the gasoline being poured into the generator. There was a small fire !! Please use caution !

The kerosene lantern will run on #2 low sulphur diesel. Standard stuff you can get off a pump. In remote areas diesel is more common.

Love Kerosene and white gas lanterns . Vary good informative video. Ontario Canada .

When I was a kid my dad had all these crappy lanterns for camping and even way back then I thought there has to be a easier way to get light….. Then we went camping with his friends who had propane and even BATTERY lanterns and I realized my dad was just cheap and weird. When I had kids and took them camping there wasn’t a single time I yearned for the alcohol bottle and semi out of control flames. Lol

I wonder what the explosion hazard of one of these lamps is.

There is a very simple reason why these lanterns remain viable—heat production. Camping, especially within the contiguous United States, is subject to numerous microclimate conditions such that to achieve ideal temperatures during what should otherwise be comfortable temperatures, will subject the camper to wildly fluctuating ranges. Consequently in the dead of night, these provide a stable source of light and heat when necessary.

Too bad he didn't have a digital carbon monoxide detector to measure the CO being produced by the burner.

I imagine that is the primary reason why it is recommended not to use such lanterns indoors, with oxygen consumption being a possible secondary hazard.

I hate this video!⚠️©️👎

The things you call frightful I call exciting.

Don't think I'll be ordering one of those anytime soon. YIKES!!

How very technical, pumpy bit 😂😂😂😂😂😂

How DO you know? 😨

Those aren't gas lights, are you crazy? 😘

It works the on the same principle as a propane vaporizer

This has really brought my attention to why sun light hours used to be such a big deal

in boy scouts we lovingly called these balls sack lamps because of the shape the mantle takes

One thing I should mention is that some kerosene pressure lamps have what amounts to a mini flamethrower in them that I believe uses the kerosene in the fuel tank to rapidly preheat the generator but at the cost of rapidly using up fuel so you have to refill the lantern to get the most out of it(not 100% certain if the device uses the kerosene so don’t quote me on that but all videos I’ve seen on it being used doesn’t have a different fuel being added like the Coleman he used)

I’ve seen them primarily on petromax lanterns but I assume it would be used on others because in those parts of the world where kerosene pressure lanterns are extremely common

So while the Coleman needs alcohol spirits used for alcohol stoves(or rubbing alcohol like you used)to start the lantern, the kerosen lanterns with the rapid preheater(the name giving to the device) makes the use of alcohol more of an option than a requirement when lighting them mainly if you don’t have a bunch of kerosene on hand or haven’t bought some and are running low

wow that last joke😂 sincerely hilarious

So nostalgic , those things were an absolute necessity , we had the Aladdin brand

You can tell you're not a camper or hunter ha

People who don't know People who know
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That’s not how gas lights work, you’re crazy.

People would typically go to sleep when it got dark back when lanterns were still being used in homes.

Love the video. I have been using naptha fueled Coleman stoves and lanterns for decades, and I still learned a few things. And yes, it might be white gas, but I just like saying naptha. I also have a small stash of old lantern mantles, just in case. Maybe that explains why my garage is glowing.

I also have a Dragonfly backpacking stove that runs on white gas, but starts a little like the kerosene lantern. You fill the attached tank, pump it up, and then turn on the stove for a few seconds to allow a tablespoon of fuel to land in a small cup. You shut the stove off, light the small pool of fuel, let it burn for a minute or so to warm up the generator, then you turn the stove back on. No alcohol required. It works like a champ, although it is a little on the loud side.

I'll stick to my propane lantern for emergencies, just turn a knob, press a button, and boom, light.

I giggled when you were stroking it and staring at the camera 😂

You should get a gasoline plumbers furnace and a blow torch to complete this series. I have an antique plumbers furnace that I use for melting lead and it’s a wild ride.

Also I've not trying to be rude or anything but on the Coleman lantern and stove my dad had there was a brass valve that you had to operate that prevented that flaming affect I've noticed that none of the Coleman lanterns that you're showing here does not have that brass valve obviously Coleman has made some improvements over the years since 1960 or whenever my dad bought the Coleman lantern and stove.

I would like to point out that you have to take your finger off of the hole on the top of the the pump as you go to make your up stroke or you're not going to get more air into the tube to to force more air into the tank leaving your finger on the tube isn't going to allow more air to get into the tube I just like to point that out cuz at least that's what my dad told me I still have the old Coleman lantern that we used to use when we would go camping and I also have a Coleman stove to be nice if you show people how those work.

I ended up buying a dual fuel lantern after watching this video...
I shouldn't have watched 🥲

Dang dude, you wanna go camping?

Technology and it's advancements are nice and all but my kerosene,gasoline and propane powered lights, stoves and heaters always perform.

The hiss of Coleman lanterns and stoves is a treasured memory from childhood. The reason that it's so unique is because of the "large" hollow tubes downstream from the metering orifice. You're hearing the same effect that is used in loudspeakers, how you get a siren that can be heard miles away from a diaphragm 2 inches across.