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This page was last updated 2003-02-16

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Radius
A nice little blow lamp for ski waxing made by Radius, Sweden.

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Coleman
Coleman, USA. At least the tank but I´m not sure if this is a fake or not.

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Bladon
This is a Bladon made in England. Note the unusual arrangement with the pump outside the tank.

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Clayton & Lambert
A nice Clayton & Lambert from USA.

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Darlton
Self heating soldering iron made by Darlton, Australia.

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Express
This is a French blow lamp with the name Express.

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Otto Bernz
Otto Bernz, USA. Note the flat tank making it suitable for auto technicians as it will fit in the tool box.

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Vesta
Another French blow lamp by Vesta. The coil outside the burner is for heating the fuel.

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Petter
This Petter crude oil engine is using a Primus blow lamp for pre-heating.

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Barthel
Barthel, Germany is the producer of this blow lamp.

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Harmic
This small blow lamp is produced by Harmic, USA.

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Phoebus
A self heating soldering iron made by Phoebus, Austria.

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Kovopodnik from the Czech Republic.

Here you will find links to other sites on blow lamps as well as related items and services.

If you know about another site that you think might be suitable here, please send me a message so that I can add a link.

 

Blow lamp collectors

The American Blow Torch Collectors Association (of which I am a proud member):
http://www.blowtorch.net/

NEW Ron Bunting, a US blow torch collector, has a site with many nice pictures and also a discussion group:
http://groups.msn.com/blowtorch/_whatsnew.msnw

Jeff Glass homepage gives you a lot of information on American blow torches:
http://members.aol.com/blotorches/ or www.blotorches.com

Laurent Bel has a site with mainly French blow lamps (in French):
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/laurent.bel/

Dietmar Auringer has a site with many nice German blow lamps (in German):
http://www.ewetel.net/~dietmar.auringer/

Jeanpierre Parisot has a site with many nice French blow lamps (in French):
http://jeanpierre.parisot.free.fr/

Yet another nice French blow lamps site (in French):
http://lampes.a.souder.free.fr/index.htm

NEW Here is a new site from yet another French collector (in French):
http://visentin.jp.free.fr/

Operating and maintenance instructions for US blow torches (C&L):
http://www.john-wasser.com/NEMES/BlowTorch.html

Discussion forum on blow lamps

Blow Lamps Unlimited (in English):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blowlamps/

ForgasarForeningen (in Swedish):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forgasarforeningen/

Manufacturers/Retailers

Primus AB, Sweden (go to the history section):
http://www.primus.se/primus/omprimus_e.htm

Optimus AB, Sweden (no blow lamps):
http://www.optimus.se/

Otto Bernz & Co, USA (now BernzOMatic):
http://www.bernzomatic.com-aboutus

Guilbert Express, France (company history and picture of old blow lamp):
http://www.express.fr/entreprise.asp

Jangkoo Machinery, Korea (still produces blow lamps):
http://www.jangkoo.co.kr/product.htm

Rupa, India (still produces Petromax blow lamps):
http://www.eepc.gov.in/rupa/p_prod.htm

Suzhou Tower Blowlamp Co., China (still produces Petromax blow lamps):
http://www.blowtorch-cn.com/egs.htm

NEW Indo International in India produce blow lamps, pressure stoves and pressure lanterns:
http://www.indo-international.com/

 

Blow lamp sources

eBay is a site where mostly American blow lamps (blow torches) are auctioned:
http://www.ebay.com/

Pressure lanterns, stoves and irons

Light Bringer is a Finnish site mainly about pressure lanterns but you will also find one or two blow lamps (in English or Swedish):
http://willman.20m.com/index.html

Pressure Lamps Unlimited is a very informative site about pressure lamps which very often were produced by the same manufacturer as blow lamps:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/munwai/index.htm

Skeeves Pressure Lamps is a site about pressure lamps but has also some blow lamps:
http://www.btinternet.com/~skeeves/index.html

Rodney Meyers has a brilliant lamp and lantern site, with helpful hints, restoration advice and lots of pictures
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/xrxc or http://kerolite.freeyellow.com

Terrence Marsh has a nice site about pressure lamps, stoves and irons:
http://terrence.marsh.faculty.noctrl.edu/lantern/index.htm

Herman Mulder in Holland has a site on pressure lamps, stoves and old engines:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/mulder.herman/

Classic Camp Stoves is the place to go to if you are interested in stoves:
http://www.spiritburner.crosswinds.net/index.htm

The Stove Collector is produced by author, collector, backpacker and Norwegian Terje Johansen:
http://stovecollector.tripod.com/index.htm

Base Camp Stove & Lamp Specialists have spare parts for many makes of stoves and pressure lamps:
http://www.base-camp.co.uk/

FJ-Service has new stoves and pressure lanterns as well as spare parts:
www.fj-service.dk

Bart J. Meijer has new stoves and pressure lanterns on his site:
http://de-bloeitijd.20m.com/

Toshiaki Kojiya has a nice collection of stoves (in Japanese but easy to navigate):
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~opt00l/

NEW A French site on camp stoves (also in English):
http://www.chez.com/walfard/rechauds/contenu_en.html

NEW The Dutch Stove Collectors shows off their collection of stoves and pressure lanterns:
http://members.lycos.nl/vansmeerdijk/index.html

Related sites

Tony's Lanz Bulldog Tractor Page is an Australian site about old tractors of which some use a blow lamp as starting aid:
http://www.dynapay.com.au/Tony/Lanz/index.htm

Rubens Maskinhistoriska Samlingar is another site with old tractors and stationary engines:
http://www.rubens.se/index_se.html

Tändkulans Vänner is a site about hot bulb engines using blow lamps for starting:
http://www.tandkulan.com/index.htm

Swedish inventions, including the blow lamp:
http://www.si.se/eng/esverige/inventio.html

Very useful tips on polishing of brass and other metals:
http://www.englishcustompolishing.com/

Collecting sites

Samlaren (the Collector) is a Swedish site with many links to useful sites:
http://samlaren.se-swed.net/tn.htm

Another site for collectors:
http://www.worldcollectorsnet.com

A complete collection of links to Swedish antique related resources:
www.antikviteter.net

NEW Large, eclectic mix of consignment shop, antiques & collectibles mall, bookstore, reference information, arts & events magazine, collecting web directory, and museum featuring Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Arts & Crafts design.
http://www.collectics.com

 

 

 


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