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Brian Whatcott

Gogarty wrote:
In article ,
says...
My son sent me a gimbaled W&P yacht lamp as a memento.
It looks like it would work with kerosene,
but I have it in mind that it was an alcohol lamp.
Which is it?

Brian W

Lamp oil. Find it cheap online. The stuff is usually incredibly
overpriced, especially in marine stores and home furnishing stores. Be
sure the copper mesh screen is clean. These are really miner's lamps,
not boat lamps, and the copper mesh prevent the flame from setting off
ambient methane, etc. They put out very little light. One came with our
boat. Sold it on eBay a while back..

I noticed the strong resemblance to a miner's safety lamp. Two layer
mesh funnel in the chimney and all. Wonder why? You could see a virtue
on a boat with a gas engine, no doubt - but that's not that usual on a
sail boat, wouldn't you say?

Brian W