Thread: My lightbar arrived today

Come on you know the It didnt happen with out pics

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.

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.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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).

Originally Posted by 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.

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

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.

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