To prevent the flames and smoke as seen at 03:50, you should pre-heat the lamp with the valve open and once preheated, give it about 5 strokes on the pump. Once it's lit give it another 30-50 strokes and you're done.

OK, name and shame the person who said it was a Duchess lol.

Unbelievable. A novice demonstrating how not to do it. Dip the torch in a small jar of meths, never drop the meths onto the torch (do you know why? It has nothing to do with "cleanliness", meths leaves no residue). If there's a flare up from the mantle (common if pre-heating is insufficient), the curtains will soon join in and then the local news. Fix this up... if your house is still standing.

Lovely job .. too dam near those lovely lace curtains for me ..nice lamp

Excellent farts at 2:18 and 2:45. Do you think some spoken explanation might have been useful?

DIP THE PRE HEATER IN THE METHS JAR

Is that a fart while your pumping!! Thanks for the demo.

Sorry I couldn't watch it all because of the irritating noise of wind on the microphone.

Love the creeky old wooden door in the background.

about as wrong as it’s possble to be without breaking the globe... why not read the instructions, they’re online? QQ

Beautiful . Would love to own one

i beleive the way to fill the prelighting tprch is to just dip it in the jar.

L'opérateur n'est pas une lumière, lui !

I just bought an old tilley lantern...But mine did not have the cup that you first lighted and put in thr lamp to heat up the kerosene...it must be a missing part..or Is it something that you came up with?

ha ha ha he keeps farting, but well done on the instructions

did he fart at 2min 13 seconds

LED technology is here there is no need for these !!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, thanks for sharing. I have an old lamp that I inherited from my Father in Law. It is still in the box in mint condition, it is a X246A if that means anything. I was going to use it for some hunting trips coming up, but after watching this video, I think I will go and buy a Battery LED lamp.

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my lamp lights but after a few minutes I get paraffin leaking back through the plunger spindle I have changed all the washers . have I missed something obvious or do I need a new pump assembly

Round about the 10 hour mark on a full tank should be about right.

Thank you so much for posting this. As a complete novice it was really helpful. I have a question: How long would you expect one tank of paraffin to last you? Thank you.

Thanx, from Tom in the Netherlands.

Thanks for the video Tilley's are great lamps. I'll need to look mine out and fire it up.

1st 2 mins way ott...dip the pre heater in a jar of meths surely?

That was a new mantle at the time, and is still in the lamp now, running sweetly, thank you.

Have you replaced the mantle?

The soot probably came from steam loco's.

very pleased to note a distinct lack of clag on those Deltics which speaks volumes for the ELR maintenance routines, although I did notice the soot on the overbridge arches so someone's smoking badly.

Superb shot. Both engines going well. Barry

You are right, paraffin and kerosene are the same, and that is what this lantern runs on. It is meths for pre heating though.

Could you tell me what fuel you use for these, is it kerosene or paraffin, ( it's probably the same thing ) and where you get it ?

Could have been a bit steadier, but not too bad considering the conditions.

Good distance shot. Britannia looked superb. Barry

Not too good on a windy dull and cold day though! Be much better come summer.

That's a nice long shot from the castle on a clear day. Chris

And in the fall when it;s chilly you can light up a tilley and use the 60% waste heat to warm your home, hence making you 100% energy efficient!

And you can rub it in the face of hippies who say "Dude why don't you like use LED that's waaaay brighter than that"

I know, thats why I bought it! Then of course, I had to buy more. Hooked!

Never mind the net curtain, what about the soup strainer? Live and learn as they say.

kool vid i rember this day i was on the black track with mi air riffle when i herd and saw this train :)

your right there mate ! you could of done with a bit more pre-heat, lucky yer net curtain didn`t go up !!! lol. they are a great bit of kit , i use one all the time for night fishing. ;-)

It's only a bit of fun, you take it and you give it back. Trust me, we don't get nasty, just have a laugh, it's a good place to work really!

I am not a nurd, or for for thar matter a nerd. I am just the owner of five pressure lanterns that I use for garden lighting in the summer. Nothing wrong with that.

@fouloleron2002 How would he know what the content was about without watching it? Or curiosity maybe?

@fouloleron2002 Never said I wasn't a Tilley lamp owner but not to nurd level like you. The 164H mantles I bought direct from Tilley only last week DO NOT have NON RADIO ACTIVE on them. So much for super Tilley eh!

@fouloleron2002 sarcasm is a requirement where you work? Who determines levels of verbal abuse you hear what he stated on TV all the time these days, it's hardly frowned upon nowadays - even the "ladies" are at it and that's also on national TV.

By the way, your poist tends to indicat that you are a pressure lamp owner yourself. If you did not own one, how would you know what it says on a tilley mantle package?

I beg to differ, I have a stock of tilley 164H mantles that state quite clearly that they are non radioactive. I believe nobody now makes thoriated mantles. If you have seen packages that do not state that they are non radioactive, they are most definitely old stock.

cakeyspig is a work colleague, and thus sarcasm is a requirement! Reference to The Dambusters is an in joke, but chas4551 was getting abusive to unacceptable levels. I do not like the idea of blocking, but if that is what it takes, then so be it. It is no skin off my nose.