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[alex k]

very cool display of light !

[campmaster-k]

Thanks Alex. We ended up with 20 lanterns burning. Its was all we could manage wired to the planks.

It was very bright it drew in many people.

[Mukilteo]

Nothing here, move along.

[campmaster-k]

I am here to tell you that you will love it. Its the whole next level of cool.

Here she is in all her glory, the beautiful, the unmatched, Angela.

[nevadatear]

Is Angela getting a little "heady with all this attention? I would think she might get a little swellheaded!

[wagondude]

Are you sure her name isn't really ROXANNE? I'm sure it is.

[campmaster-k]

I named Angela after the redhead Angela character from the tv show The Office.

I do not communicate with the lanterns ----- yet. But if I did I know Angela would love the attention she gets

The little shiny 242 with the Doug Hodder inspired mica globe ( I saw his 242 with one and had to keep up with the cool crowd) is named Marshall after the character on the show How I Met Your Mother. And yes there is a lantern named Barney.

[Mukilteo]

Nothing here, move along.

[campmaster-k]

Cool stuff Eric,

I too have been at work.

Last weekend I got two 200s at the fleamarket. I got both for $15. Both seemed to be in excellent condition. When I got them home I discovered that the better of the two had a super rusty pump tube. Somehow it got full of water at some point, I think its to far gone. So I took the best of both lanterns and built this one. It may very well be my best 200 A.



I got the pump cleaned and oiled.



It fired right up.



It is a very awesome lantern.

[Mukilteo]

Nothing here, move along.

[campmaster-k]

I wonder if a brake cylinder hone would clean up the pump tube.

The pump tube appears to me to be just mild steel on most lanterns. I too was wondering about a hone. I did not know one existed that was near that size. I am sure it would work. In fact I have just sanded a tube graduating through several grits and got it to work.

[doug hodder]

Eric...I think the dia. of the tube is too small for a brake hone....I use a piece of dowel, with a slot cut in the end...strip off some sand paper (fine grit) to fit in the slot in the end with some good flaps on it, chuck it up in a drill and hone it. I've got some fiber backed sandpaper however that doesn't come apart, like an emery cloth. Just an idea. Doug

[Mukilteo]

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[doug hodder]

It's now called auto body cloth we get from NAPA

I guess I'm old school...kinda like trying to go into a drug store and looking for soap....it's now called "body wash" seriously....the drug store didn't have a sign on the aisle with "soap"...it was freaking "body wash"....I give up....I wonder what the new term will be for toilet paper....maybe "posterior tissue"....Doug

[Mukilteo]

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