Hi All! I've just completed the restoration of my Z5680 lantern. I'm rather pleased with the way it has come out. Click the link for a photo album of the...
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Hi David, [I've just completed the restoration of my Z5680 lantern. I'm rather pleased with the way it has come out.] And so you should be - good colour match!...
Mike, Thanks very much - the paint I used was from Halfords and is a Vauxhall colour. Oh yes... I have been photographing the tube for a long time. It's funny ...
Nice work, and it's a SOX saucer too. Love the eerie diffuse yellow glow. There are some privately owned mercury ones near me at a waterworks, although they...
What an excellent job! Where did you get the idea to use washing powder on the paint? thats a tip I,ll remember! Cheers Bob ... From: David Henderson To:...
Hi Bob/ all, The paint tip came from a friend who may be known to some of you - Andrew Emmerson. I soaked the bowl in a strong solution of biological washing...
Hi David, Good job there mate: looks like new! It's interesting to see, as my own example is for an MBF lamp, so the internal spine setup is slightly ...
Hi Davy, Thanks for the kind words. The Z5680 is now all wrapped up and put away! My Wife doesn't mind the restoration being done on the table, but didn't take...
Hi David A nice job well done. Cheers Colin F. ... From: david930032 To: StreetlightingUK@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 10:46 PM Subject:...
Cant go wrong with advice from Andy! Bob ... From: David Henderson To: StreetlightingUK@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 4:31 PM Subject: Re:...
Hi all The latest lantern I've got and have started fixing up for my collection is a large hat Thorn Gamma 6 which I picked up from the Colas depot last week. ...
Hi all, Â For those interested in Edinburgh material, some newly scanned photos were uploaded to the net tonight. No captions yet. All Edinburgh, nearly all...
Sotonsteve and I have both been busy restoring a pair of lanterns that were literally rescued from a skip. They both still have a few scars from the experience...
Nice work lads with your baby Daleks and a lucky find in a skip was it a Colas skip ? Have you guys got any more photos taken during your restoration works...
Nope none left in Pompey for a long time, it came from another contractors skip... No other restoration pics though, Steve's one was just cleaned and a crack...
Good stuff Phosco. Its a good feeling to get a lantern in that sort of state and bring it back to the sort of condition like in your Dalek pictures isn't it. ...
Such a fulfilling hobby cleaning and restoring lanterns, almost bringing them back from the dead, and without a doubt saving them from death. Interestingly,...
... The milky bowls are made of Perpsex and have been exposed to ultraviolet light i.e. they get sunburnt. So, it could be a case that one lantern was...
Hi Steve Yep quite agree on that forfilling bit, it certainly keeps me out of mischief mate, the other bit of this that s enjoyable is meeting up with other...
Hi Graeme Just been looking at those pictures, Edingburgh certainly has had some good old stuff in the past, I didn't visit the city till 2000 so I missed out...
Good restoration that! It is good to see inside other examples... mine is an MBF example and so the spine is like Davy's, whereas yours is the same as Mike's....
Arent they the same bowls you can still get from marwoods? Bob ... From: Chris Nelson To: StreetlightingUK@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008...
Over on ukastle were doing a time line of when lantern's was released and ceased to be made if you could help to add more to the list it would be great and i...
For those who don't know Edinburgh too well, the A702 starts at the West End of Princes Street and heads south via Lothian Road, through the suburbs of...
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