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It'd be great to see a side by side comparison of two lamps, one with the light booster and one not...

I do like the idea of the double wicker for a quick light while the Aladdins warm up. I was surprised to see that we had to wait an hour to let the wick soak up the fuel. After we burned it twice, it was empties, the wick was let out to dry and flash off and everything was packaged back up.

2 Aladdins and one double wick would be everything I would ever need. Looks like I might make an order.

Do you know if you make a certain purchase amount with lehmans if you might get some sort of price break? I know there are a few in my family intersted in these and thought if I put in an order for 6-700 dollars, they might deal with me a bit. Guess I need to call them...

I do not know if they give a break. Call them, they are nice people to talk to.

Anybody ever try the pump up pressure lamps that run on white gas?

They are another *very* bright none electric lamp, but again do need servicing and general looking after...

Great for outdoors but not aesthetic or pleasant indoors.

Try the W.T.Kirkman sight thay have a large selection of all brands any pric ranges.

It isn't wrong to read the directions. It's only wrong to let a woman SEE you reading the direction.

My uncle lived without power for years. He used Alladin lamps exclusively. I need to go back to his place and see if those old lamps are still there... (George died a few years back)

I was looking at these also and thought it would be good for a shop or something outside if you needed backup light source.

The Petromax Britelyt lantern looks like a very nice unit and there is a video on their site of them actually burning unleaded gasoline in that thing!

Thanks for all of the info on the oil lamps guys, fun read.
Think I'll get a double wick, the other look to be lots of
work. We still use that old time electric stuff, the double wick would be a good back up.

If you get your double wick and then see an Aladdin in person, you will be kickin' yourself for not shellin out a few more bucks. We're talking the difference between 10-15 candlepower and 60 candlepower.

OK, but I could buy 4 double wick lamps for the same price of one Aladdin. If I use oil lamps for light all the time, I would have 4 Aladdin's.

The Aladdin's look great, but I still have that old time electricity deal going on, so it's just a play thing at this point. Thanks for all of the research you have done.

Alladins are great but there is a steep leaning curve to getting started. Don't leave them unattended and don't expect to save money using them. They are very expensive to buy, maintain, and very expensive to operate. If you have access to electricity, either on or off the grid, it is very much cheaper and SAFER than Alladins.

Nevertheless sometimes we just turn off the electricity and fire up the Alladins.

You can be healed of that terrible affliction.

I wouldn't have that dangerous stuff in my house, it can get loose and kill someone.

At $30 a globe anymore, I'll sell you mine.... globe included, at no discount. Then I'll buy another twin mantle Coleman or two, or a half dozen regular oil lamps.

They done priced me right out of user-ship....

Used to be, every wooden caboose had three or four of those. We used the tall globes. The lamp was held in a spring mount, on the wall. Yeah, if you pushed them, the mantle would start to carbon up.

Maybe a new thread should be in the works. Tell me, being off the grid as you are, water seems to be important in life. How do you get the water, hand pump?
How do you shower?

Cold food storage, just wondering how this problem is solved.
I admire your family for staying off the grid, makes life somewhat more difficult. Not to many of your kind in the USA.

If incandescent bulbs really are outlawed, I think these will become very popular.

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Well, I scored big a couple days ago and found these two lamps for $25 each!

Did a test-run on them and will drain everything and let the wicks dry tomorrow. It was fun for the kids to see these babies in action as well...

I took some pictures just to share

Chimneys have water-drops because I washed them before I lit them off. I had two mantles, but disassembled the gallerys for cleaning and my 3 y/o daughter promply broke one




Warmin' up



'Bout half throttle

I wasn't able to get them as bright as the one I used prior, but I think it was due to the wick being very old and not trimmed just right. After about what I would consider 3/4 brightness, I would get orange flame impingement and a the mantle would begin to carbon-up in this one spot.

Here it is with the shade



Kids lovin' it



Other shade (not a full comparison as this one is designed to sit lower, but ran into the other shade support)



I think the newer white pleated shades would be more efficient at diffusing the light and making it brighter...not sure how I feel about these so far

I got out the wick lamp and did a side-by-side with it and the new Aladdin....well it really wasn't a comparison at all (mind you the Aladdin isn't at full power either)

Hey Scott,

I was going to buy some replacement parts but wasn't sure wether these lamps were 'Lox-On' or 'Heel-Less'....how do you tell which is which?