You can see why carbide lamps were so successful! You have a light that is operating perfectly. Any acetylene light, when it is functioning properly, should generate a BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT. I see your adjustments work very well, also! Too often I see acetylene lamps that are just showing a limp orange flame, and a lot of smoke and carbon. Kerosene lights are dim and smoky, but acetylene is normally a very bright light.
Lovely lamp, looks very easy to use too. I have a larger Powell & Hanmer carbide lamp with the number 324 stamped underneath but cant find any information about it. I want to make sure its complete before trying to get some calcium carbide. Do you know where I might find any help?
Hi there I did a video for Wiltshire man on his RUclips channel showing how to operate carbide lamps on my 1919 Royal Enfield motorcycle. Just search for " The carbide gas lamp . " Regards Colin Myler.
Hi, sorry to be pedantic, but this is an acetylene gas-powered lamp using water and carbide of calcium to produce a bright white flame. It is not simply a 'Carbide Lamp'.
Ah, that must have been my problem trying to find these videos. I was searching for 'carbide lamp' instead of 'acetylene gas-powered lamp using water and carbide of calcium". Silly me.
Carbide lamp/lantern is the correct terminology used at the time, welcome to humanity, where we prefer to shorten things into easily manageable phrases.
@@MikeDQB I am sorry, you are wrong. The correct name has to include the medium that is used, as in 'oil lamp', 'paraffin lamp'. What you call a carbide lamp does not use Carbide of Calcium alone. It is mixed with water and the resultant gas which the lamp burns is acetylene gas. Because people in the past and today have used the 'carbide lamp' expression, it does not mean that it is right.
@@sixarragon Again, it is shorthand that was used by people as it was an everyday object that needed something simple to refer to it. Literally look at advertisements and catalogues by the manufacturers themselves that refer to them as carbide lamps. Tell me, do you also refer to flashlights as a "portable electrically induced incandescent illumination device powered by electrochemical storage cell"? Now to be fair, I suppose acetylene lamp would be more accurate by the fuel being used, but the shorthand of carbide lamp was to indicate that it was a self contained generator unit instead of needing a seperate gas supply.
You can see why carbide lamps were so successful! You have a light that is operating perfectly. Any acetylene light, when it is functioning properly, should generate a BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT. I see your adjustments work very well, also! Too often I see acetylene lamps that are just showing a limp orange flame, and a lot of smoke and carbon. Kerosene lights are dim and smoky, but acetylene is normally a very bright light.
Wow, this works great! What a cool piece of old technology!
So cool! thanks for sharing.
This is so cool. I love lightbulbs, bu this is my favourite now. :)
I like how the Valve acts as a dimmer.
Very nice work ❤❤❤❤❤🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you I had an old camping version of this type of lamp. Loved seeing it put through its paces.
wow stylo..many thanks to bulb and led creator
I love vintage bicycle tech and this takes the cake!
These also adorned the heads of many a miner in their day.
Wow, thank you.
Una preciosidad de aparato.
Hello, my friend, what materials did you put in the fuel tank, and does it work on other materials? Thank you❤
I used carbide stones in the lower tank and water in the upper, the water drips on the carbide and produces acetylene gas
Lovely lamp, looks very easy to use too. I have a larger Powell & Hanmer carbide lamp with the number 324 stamped underneath but cant find any information about it. I want to make sure its complete before trying to get some calcium carbide. Do you know where I might find any help?
Normally i restore everything my own but ive bought mine already restored so im no expert on these lamps ;-)
Hi there I did a video for Wiltshire man on his RUclips channel showing how to operate carbide lamps on my 1919 Royal Enfield motorcycle. Just search for " The carbide gas lamp . " Regards Colin Myler.
Didn't they use them on early motorcycle s too?
Or cars with a huge cannister of carbide
@@Chevdriver I wondered about that cause before batteries they needed light
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Hi, sorry to be pedantic, but this is an acetylene gas-powered lamp using water and carbide of calcium to produce a bright white flame. It is not simply a 'Carbide Lamp'.
Ah, that must have been my problem trying to find these videos. I was searching for 'carbide lamp' instead of 'acetylene gas-powered lamp using water and carbide of calcium". Silly me.
Carbide lamp/lantern is the correct terminology used at the time, welcome to humanity, where we prefer to shorten things into easily manageable phrases.
@@MikeDQB I am sorry, you are wrong. The correct name has to include the medium that is used, as in 'oil lamp', 'paraffin lamp'. What you call a carbide lamp does not use Carbide of Calcium alone. It is mixed with water and the resultant gas which the lamp burns is acetylene gas. Because people in the past and today have used the 'carbide lamp' expression, it does not mean that it is right.
@@sixarragon Again, it is shorthand that was used by people as it was an everyday object that needed something simple to refer to it. Literally look at advertisements and catalogues by the manufacturers themselves that refer to them as carbide lamps.
Tell me, do you also refer to flashlights as a "portable electrically induced incandescent illumination device powered by electrochemical storage cell"?
Now to be fair, I suppose acetylene lamp would be more accurate by the fuel being used, but the shorthand of carbide lamp was to indicate that it was a self contained generator unit instead of needing a seperate gas supply.
@@DAKOTA56777 - yep, 'Carbide lamp' (bike, in this case) is what we've always called them in the U.K., irrespective of the chemistry.