1930's Dietz "Little Wizard" Lantern. Restoration. 

Very nice job and I love the color!

Amazing work I found 2 exact lamps in house ruins in Mexico working on restoring one because one of the base of one is completely rusted. Thank for the video !! Happy new year 🎊

Great work on lattern. cool to see it live again. Good choice of colors.

GREAT job Rusty !! Looks like brand new, top to bottom. Glad to see you aren't afraid to fire it up !

Wow what a big difference looks amazing and the rain makes it that much more relaxing to watch

I just bought a blue little wizard with a red globe. Never fired.....bought it off an old Man here in P.A for twenty bucks after driving an hour. I got it home and the wick was in the SHINY bottom.....Boy it's so pretty😊 It was just lit for the first time,

Nice clean-up! I might have skipped the primer on the inner chimney and top cap and went straight to the hi-temp paint. I expect it will bubble with use, as the chimney and cap get pretty hot. These lanterns were designed for clean white kerosene, with a flash-point of 125-150 degrees F (50-65C). Fuels with a lower flashpoint (naphtha, Coleman fuel, gasoline) will result in a runaway, where the heat of the flame vaporizes the fuel in the tank, resulting in a fireball. Make sure your friend knows this. Many barns have burnt down because of it. Fuels that are thicker, with a higher flashpoint will clog the wick on lanterns with larger wicks. The "paraffin" lamp oil you used is really intended for indoors lamps with small wicks and has a flashpoint of over 210 F according to its MSDS. Before the limeys weigh in, paraffin in the US is different from parraffin across the pond in the UK, where it's just another name for white Kerosene. Try again with clean white Kerosene. It will burn better and almost twice as bright, with far less soot. www.lanternnet.com/faqs.htm

My grandpa collected kerosene lamps too. I cleaned them because they were also heavy smokers. I never did clean out the tank because at the time I didn't know how. Now I know you need a paint thinner to rinse the residue and sludge out. I think we saved the lamps when we sold their house. My grandparents have been gone since 2001.

Looking for inspiration to go fiddle with my old lanterns. Thanks, I'm on my way. A couple of tips if I may. One, grease the wick before inserting. I just pinch a dab of axle grease into the first inch or so. Two, paint. I've been using automotive engine enamel on mine with good results. No primer, just paint. A cool color to try is old Pontiac blue. Metallic powder blue.

Nice result ! I did a d lite about 2 years ago and a little wizzard one from the 30s one from 42 . I did a black d lite with white hand painted stamping looks like a jack daniels label . Really cool looking. The little wizzard i did in red with black hand painted stampings. Its looks cool too

Nice job, looks great! I just did a 1930 D-lite very similar, forest green and the semi gloss high heat paint….. turned out amazing!

Very beautiful result, thank you for sharing your amazing story. God bless you and your family

I like all the sighs. Your funny. Great job.👍🏻

A nice restoration. Only one thing wrong, you should have trimmed the wick correctly.

Very nice! Trim the wick and it will burn better. Great job as always!

I have 2 of these that are origonal blue paint from the 30s. One has a little rust with no wick while the other looks brand new.

Holy crap! I just bought the same antique piece for 20 bucks at Goodwill. It was like a beam of light waiting for me; however it’s really jacked up like this one is. I want to restore it and use it for outside at night. Thanks for the video, i’ll Keep you updated to tell you how it went. I’d appreciate some pointers along the way.

At first I was like " that blue?" Then I was like wow I like that!!!

This came out great, love the blue, subscribed!

Nicely done 👍👍👍

Little late but Trim the wick it will burn better, cleaner, brighter, just trim to match the burner head. Half moon shape.

Great job. Cool color.

Just a request, install a light in the media blaster. Makes video much easier to see. Great effort and good work!

very nice

Nice!

Amazing

A question what good is the high heat paint if you didn't use high heat primer? just asking for a need to know good or bad. or an I don't know will all be accepted answers. or it was all I had mate get off my case lol

love the color

Very cool bro. good job

You definitely need some of that MC-51 Rust Remover that the other RU-vid restorers use :)

is your split flame intended? You can get a brighter flame with less soot if you trim your wick .

I am starting to do mine and the fuel cap keeps spinning!!! Help! Great work.

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Hello from Seattle! I just purchased a vintage Dietz red glass Police Lantern in which I would like to know it's date. POLICE is etched in the red glass and the only markings on it are on the bottom which reads "RE DIETZ COMPANY NEW YORK USA THE NUMBER 38 is also on the bottom. Thank you in advance! I love it!

Can you expand on how that stove goes back into the top portion? Does the spring go inside the lip or outside? Do you push it up over the tabs at the top of the ring or does it sit below them

i have a black one i got from a thrift store. it needs glass

Very nice job on the resto, I kind of like them left crusty tho.

How do I find out the worh of a Dietz Little Wizard. I have two I would like to sell?

were you able to accurately date this lantern? It is not the earliest of the streamlined Dietz as it has a stepped fount and is not smooth as the first generation were. the age would be after 1937 I would guess not sure when though will see if I can find out and will post.

nice work as always, tho I'm not sure about the blue, it's not a bad choice. A silverish galvanized look would have been my first choice for the tank and most of the parts. Black hi temp is the only choice for other parts. Back in the day they used plain old coal oil (kerosene), not ultra pure stuff, so it did not burn nice and clean like now. You can also use the same stuff you put in coleman lanterns and liquid gas stoves, the "white gas" they use. Or you can use lighter fluid but that's an expensive choice for a lamp. which takes a lot of it. Does give you a brighter flame though. This was actually a popular lantern back in the day, tho Dietz was the name in lanterns back then, they made many other models as well, but this one was hugely popular... I don't know why. Easy lighting and such I suppose. I don't recall why, but I researched this lamp a while back, don't recall all I found.

Did you use walnut shell to blast with?

Hi bro 👋👋👋very good restoration lamp 👍👍👍and video cool 🤝🤝🤝

Nice clean up,but it will stink TF when in use.

A good lantern to have around if the power goes out

The blue is a terrible colour for a lantern!

How did you get the burner out I’m trying to restore one and the burner is really stuck

If you have a blaster, use it the right way..then you don`t have to sand it afterwards..thats what a blaster is for.

by the way I think the colour of the primer you used is excellent and I would like to paint a lantern that colour and top coat it with several coats o clear semigloss hi-ttemp paint.

Thanks for sharing it looks great. I have a question, why didn't the sand blaster remove all of the rust for you? I don't think I've ever seen a blaster not remove a high portion of rust.

What kind of paint did you use? I'm afraid of mine melting, I just used regular spray paint.

Dear Sir, Nice clean. Isn't the old good traditional restoration.

There is nothing 'restored' about this. It was altered to a Disney or fantasy lantern. Cute, but not restored.

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your wick looks terrible on first light

You know, if you hold the button down the paint will continue to come out of the can. Reducing the chance of splotching leaveing a smooth finish on the surface. Also not huffing while do this implies you're enjoying making the video and you don't find it a chore to do. Just saying.

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The color sucks

Say you used Crylon paint. Is it matte black or glossy? it looks almost transparent