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If you haven't seen an Aladdin kerosene lamp then you need to.
They are a remarkable piece of technology (even though they've
been around a long time).
If you grew up going on campouts where there was always a kid
that had a gas lantern (remember pumping up the tank pressure?)
then the Aladdin kerosene lamp will be a pleasant surprise .....
no pumping up the tank, with kerosene you'll be less concerned
about the thing blowing up in your face (pressurized gas makes
me nervous), and it's quiet .... I mean really quiet.
The 'heart' of the Aladdin kerosene lamp is its mantle. It's
operation is similar to the gas lantern but the Aladdin runs
on kerosene and it isn't pressurized.
The kerosene lamp that you may have had as a child generated
light by the carbon in the kerosene being hot enough to put
out some visible light (though not much). The Aladdin kerosene
lamp generates its light by the kerosene flame heating the
mantle to incandescence; it is a very much more efficient
process as compared to just a kerosene flame.
In several places in their literature Aladdin says that their
lamps put out the light of a 60 Watt light bulb. I don't know
if it's 60 Watts but if not it's close; if you turn up the
wick (to increase the flame) the mantle will be glowing
white.
The 'down-side' is that you're dealing with a very hot object;
make sure that there are no children who can get near the
lamp. Also it will consume oxygen from a room (though I don't
think too fast as he lamp is very efficient). Interestingly
there is very little smell once the lamp is up to operating
temperature ... the white hot mantle is apparently very good
at making sure that the kerosene vapor is consumed in the
combustion process.
So if you've got an Aladdin lamp that works why would you want
another mantle ? Easy .... if your present mantle breaks and
you don't have a spare your lamp is unusable and the mantle
is very 'brittle'.
A new mantle has some kind of 'blue stuff' that it looks to
have been dipped in but the first time you light it up the
heat from the kerosene flame burns the coating away and
leaves the mantle a whitish color.
Once a mantle has been used (it's that whitish color) it is
very brittle; don't try to remove the mantle from where it's
locked-down into the base of the chimney and when you lift
off the chimney to light the lamp try not to jar it as you
might shatter the mantle.
So if you plan to use an Aladdin kerosene lamp you'll
want at least one spare (new) mantle for back-up (get
a spare chimney too and then you're in pretty good shape).
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The locking tabs were bent over to far, I had to bend them back out so that it would engage the slots. The mantle fabric did not stay attached to the base, it separated by 1/8 to 1/4 inch most of the way around. I think this condition is what caused the mantle to only illuminate on the top half. The mantle is made of single thread instead of the double thread of the previous version. The density of the mantle is much thinner causing the light output to be nearly half of the last one.
Two years in the making and we get a mantle that costs twice as much, puts out half the light, and can't hold its shape before its even installed.
Very disappointed,
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Yes, they're made better than the execrable Malta mantles. But if you were expecting the sunlike radiance of the old Aladdin thorium mantles of the pre-EPA-panic new-old-stock, you're going to be disappointed. These are now barely 40cp at best, whereas the old ones would pour out up to 100cp.
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I have been using Alladin lamps since the mid 70's, I believe Alladin has changed the material they are making there mantles out of and unfortunately it is not for the best. My mantles used to last a whole season or more but now I see holes forming in as little as a week. I have e-mailed Alladin about this issue but have received no reply's. I currently have 8 of their lamps but have decided to slowly convert to oil lamps. Good oil lamps are more expensive than Alladin lamps but the mantle issue has been going on for over a year with no improvement in sight as far as I can see. It is ashame, because I really do like the light that Alladin lamps put out.
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It broke before I could get the lamp lit. It needs to be of a better quality material. Maybe they will improve it.
TLP
