My lightbar arrived today

[olbod]

Arrived this morning, others would say "I cant wait" for it to get dark but I will just say that I have had to be patient, eh.
I havent mounted or wired it up yet but tonight I hooked it up to the battery to test it.
Holy hell, it is brilliant.
12 led spots. Looks like it has a nice wide spread so probably dont need floods.
Also recieved in the package was a free 4" led work light, a nice surprise.
20" from www.downunder4x4.com.au (http://www.downunder4x4.com.au) $229 including postage.
Cant wait to get it fitted.
Oops.

[rangieman]

Come on you know the :rulez: It didnt happen with out pics:2up:

[olbod]

Cant wait to see some pics, eh.
Well patience my man.
I will endevour to take some night shots in a few days when I install it.
Dont know how they will come out as I only have a simple Lumix digital thingy these days.
The work camp light freeby is a 10 watt 4 led type of thing.
I havent tested it yet ( W/E ).
I dont know what I will do with it as I have a big conventional torch and my ever faithful kero lantern.
Been burning kero since I was a boy and I dont see a reason to change.

Cheers.

PS: Hang on I can certainly post a pic of my camp essentials. Perhaps some younguns have never seen such marvels, eh.
Sitting on top of the fridge waiting for the next expedition.

[UncleHo]

I love the mantle lamp,both my parents and grandparents had those for blackouts,I think my G/parents ones were leftovers from power restrictions during WW11, but I remember well the Brisbane scheduled blackouts in the 50's and having to have homework done and dinner cooked early,something the younger generation can not even conceive.

We still have our hurricane lantern for emergencies for blackouts after summer storms.

[BMKal]

My parents became avid collectors of old mantle lanterns when I was a teenager. Ended up with quite a few very rare ones. I think there's still a few at the house in Tassie.

[olbod]

Grew up with kerosene lamps on the farm, also had chip heater and kero fridge because we had no electricity. Before the chip heater, with no running water we had a big copper sitting in a 44 gal drum in the back yard, used for heating bath water and boiling the clothes on wash days. Reckots blue was added to the clothes during the wash.
That particular lamp was one that I have from the old place at Horsley Park.
It and lanterns have been our only source of lighting for long periods over many years living in the bush and I will continue to use them. If it aint broke etc:
Getting a bit hard to source the globes now for a mantle lamp.
When I can no longer get them I have the idea to modify the base around the wick and use lantern glass.
I like to keep it simple and travel light using tecknology that works and doesn't need constant updating.
The need for mod cons is all in the mind and makes you soft.

Cheers.

[BMKal]

Grew up with kerosene lamps on the farm, also had chip heater and kero fridge because we had no electricity. Before the chip heater, with no running water we had a big copper sitting in a 44 gal drum in the back yard, used for heating bath water and boiling the clothes on wash days. Reckots blue was added to the clothes during the wash.
That particular lamp was one that I have from the old place at Horsley Park.
It and lanterns have been our only source of lighting for long periods over many years living in the bush and I will continue to use them. If it aint broke etc:
Getting a bit hard to source the globes now for a mantle lamp.
When I can no longer get them I have the idea to modify the base around the wick and use lantern glass.
I like to keep it simple and travel light using tecknology that works and doesn't need constant updating.
The need for mod cons is all in the mind and makes you soft.

Cheers.

Haha ............ yes, I remember as a teenager going with my parents through the local "general store" at any new town we visited - just to look for wicks / flues / shades etc that they might have stashed away on a shelf out the back. Sometimes came away with quite a hoard of them - they would all be taken home to see what they could "match up" with other bits & pieces they had to make up another lamp. Usually had more success in very small towns - one that I remember them finding quite a lot of gear at was Grong Grong in NSW (east of Narranderra). We lived at Ardlethan, not far up from there on the Newell Hwy at the time.

I'll have a look around the house in Tassie when I'm down there in a couple of weeks and see if there's any interesting ones still around. My mum always loved to have large pot plants and old lanterns inside the house, so there's a good chance that there might still be some there. The house on King Island was full of them - they were often used at night, but had to be moved around a bit as, apparently the fumes are not good for the pot plants (so I was told).

[dullbird]

Cant wait to see some pics, eh.
Well patience my man.
I will endevour to take some night shots in a few days when I install it.
Dont know how they will come out as I only have a simple Lumix digital thingy these days.
The work camp light freeby is a 10 watt 4 led type of thing.
I havent tested it yet ( W/E ).

I dont know what I will do with it as I have a big conventional torch and my ever faithful kero lantern.
Been burning kero since I was a boy and I dont see a reason to change.

Cheers.

PS: Hang on I can certainly post a pic of my camp essentials. Perhaps some younguns have never seen such marvels, eh.
Sitting on top of the fridge waiting for the next expedition.

why dont you install a clip under the bonnet and leave it there could be handy if in those dark nights you have to lift the hood for a quick peep

[JamesB71]

This is one of those timely changes in discussion that seems to come along occasionally. Im both about to buy a light bar and based on your rec I think a 20 inch one of these is the go, as well as taken up restoring vintage kero powered appliances.

I recently bought a kero heater, a "Valor Junior model 56" and restored it. (pics below). Im now looking for parts for a few old lamps and table lamps.

Basically I am interested in anything that is kero powered for my future cabin in the woods. :p

Before:-

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/WJByrnes/null_zps33713e0d.png

After:-
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/WJByrnes/null_zpsd6c693a4.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/WJByrnes/null_zpsd991d69f.jpg

[BMKal]

That looks great James. Glad you posted both the "before" & "after" shots. I was sitting here reading your text and looking at what turned out to be the "before" shot initially. Thought that the red colouration on it was the metal glowing red hot. :o

Would be a serious bit of gear if it could get that hot. :D

[JamesB71]

It didnt get as hot as my gradfathers old thermil blue flame stove I was restoring the other night.

It blew the seal between the burner and the tank and spewed shellite all over the coffee table which went up like an inferno. After fighting a losing battle with pots of water from the kitchen for a few mins and the fire alarms blaring, my daughter on her way to the letter box (in accordance with the fire drill) I had to run for the front yard hose and put it out.

She made me promise not to light up stoves in the study any more. Shes 6..... I couldnt argue with her.

[VM_Motori]

I have had many kero and candle lights rock up at work for resto SOME are worth tonnes more un-restored in original condition ;)

Just saying beware and careful one pair I nearly blasted and primed for a guy (I rang a collector) were worth like $2800 if the pair were old rusty and shaby (nice clean and restored about $50 each)

Cheers
Vm

[JamesB71]

I do em up to use em. :-)

[olbod]

Well the lightbar is mounted on the bullbar but has yet to be wired. The old head lights have stone chips and are generally daggy so I have orded a new pair of headlights this morning from All fourx4 Spares, 80 bucks a piece.
I also have a pair of fancy new direct replacement bulbs to go in. See pic.
I have had these bulbs in the buggery box for about 12 months. Doh, I forgot I had them.
The reason for all this activity was because Saturday fortnight ago late at night, I got a call from The Bro. He was towing his heavily loaded 8x4 trailer thru the back roads to home in Moranbah when a trailer wheel snapped 3 studs and buggered everything up, wrecking the wheel and bending the axle. No wheelbrace, no toolbox and no torch.
So off I went, fortunately I carry a full toolbox, highlift and bits and pieces and with much huffing and puffing we managed to get it going. We had to find three bolts from the 2 vehicles to use as tempory wheel studs.
The point is on those back roads with heavy scrub on both sides, my headlights were useless and downright dangerous particularly as I was in a bit of a hurry. I was nervous I dont mind saying.

Cheers.

[olbod]

Silly bugger, I forgot to turn the pic around after resizing it.

[UncleHo]

I have Narva 55/60's +50% in our D1 gives me good lights, but all the vehicle's earths have to be good and clean.