I have got hold of some petromax and geniol lamps to go in my collection one from 1963 66 and 70s.
I have bialaddin m1 302 315 from the 50s and some Tilley lamps from 60s up to late 80s.
One of the German ex army ones is a bit of a oddity is has a straight vaporizor they only manufactured a small number of them earmarked for the Swiss army and designated 603b the b is for benzene to the poor soles not living in gods country but to us petrol.
Now the Swiss privets lovingly called this lamp the suiside bomb because of the habit of ignighting in to a huge ball of flame before exploding.
I have fingered out what they did wrong!*
All the German military lamps have stamped on them benzene verboten, in English put petrol in this and have a bad day, boom, very bad, run away, this will kill you. A suprisingly concise and expressive language.
Now paraffin I relatively expensive in the uk compared with most other place so I am going to experiment with this lamp and get the full 500cp (candle power) out of it.
Now in the uk you can make ethanol as fule as long as you don't put it in your car so I can run a small fermenting and refining plant to produce ethanol legally.
The totally useless alcahol I can store in some old barrels I have until I can figure out what to use it on.
The last lot might have gone off as I made it 25years ago and haven't tested it recently I have been turning the barrel s every month to stop them leaking.
In memory of my uncle.
Me and my uncle used to make it he said he used it in his work cleaning windows? Now I think about it, it was a bit odd as he was afraid of heights! But he certainly went through a lot of the stuff and always had lots of money. Alas he is no longer with us as he passed 25 years ago now I don't know what from, I do Remember a bit of a do regarding the funeral though.
They insisted on a grave as the health and safety officer on the council refused to cremate him something to do with fire safety! And risk of explosion.
I can start production up any time, with some help from the minions.
Then with the addition of a tesla valve system, re jetting and a smal turbo effect from the modified air mixing/intake replace the nozzle with a higher temperature ceramic and away we go.
If it all works it will be like having a mini sun hanging out side my van when camping.
*dont use petrol