Carbide bicycle lamp

Thanks for making the video I was born in 1964 therefore raised in the 70s and 80s I knew about the concept but never had a actual lamp to use or learn how to operate so my curiosity Was satisfied by the demonstration you made

My neighbor just found one of these at a yard sale for $2. I sent him your video 😎👍👍

Petroleum jelly is flammable

I have a nice collection of bicycle lamps.

Looks good for keeping your hands warm in winter while stopped in traffic!

i Think they were made of Metal for a reason lol xD Fun Little gadget from Before my time. why is it that stuff from the past are allways the most fun to tinker with?

had one in England my grandad gave me in the 1980's for when i went camping asit gave light and heat, also you could knock out birds in trees with the carbide....or so i hear as it a poaching skill.

enjoyed this thank you for sharing.

I sent a link to this video to a collector of carbide lamps that I had come across when I was looking for one to buy. He had a couple of comments: 1. The lamp probably dates from the 30's or 40's and not the 20's as I thought. 2. He felt it wasn't old enough to be called an antique. It was interesting to me that they would have been making carbide bicycle lamps into the forties. I guess it took longer than I realized for the battery and lamp technology to get good enough to completely obsolete the carbide lamps. On his second point: I knew there was some kind of age requirement in some contexts for how old something needed to be to be considered an antique. I didn't know what it was and since all I meant by the use of the word antique was that the lamp was friggin old, I thought it was OK. I have now looked up antique and found that the US customs service and apparently a lot of people that use the word in a more restrictive sense think that something needs to be 100 years old to be an antique. So the lamp is not formally an antique but it is still really old and I might live long enough to see it become an antique.

I think one issue was that you didn't need to put so much carbide in it. You only need a few pieces not 20-30 lol great lamp none the less

Thank you for explaining this, i just purchased a 1912 carbide light for my flying merkel bicycle which is 1917, i have run through what i thought was a gas chamber at first (now the water chamber) as i come to find out and the drip control still works and the chamber still holds water. My light has no gasket or seal so i am a bit worried on starting it. ALSO mine does not have the main shaft that is mounted on the bottom carbide holder does this mean mine is missing a piece? or did some not come with the shaft I could send pictures if you needed, but i would love to get this lamp operational

Useful video. I'm hoping to get one of these soon so it's good to see what could go wrong.

I would wait tell you either make a gasket or have one made before someone really gets hurt and have a fire extinguisher near buy,one that will put grease fire ABC one .I love to have one that has been redone to safely work ,there has to be some inter sites out there

I have a few of these, one very nice Solar brand one and a Gammage one i got thats really rough im putting an LED array inside. The solar id like to light at least once do you have any idea where to get the ceramic gas nozzle that the flame comes out of?

You now that rubber paint FLEX SEAL they sell on TV ? Use that to paint on a gasket.

Thabks fpr this video. Very little info regarding these lamps on the Web. I have just been given one, (has red and green, port and starboard coloured lens on each side. ) Looking to sell?

Carbide hard to get in the nanny state UK This is why your video

Is that what miners used on their helmets?

Nice

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