1940s AGM KampLite RL-3 Lantern Restoration
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- In this video I disassemble and restore a KampLite RL-3 lantern made by American Gas Machines some time between 1949 and 1953. The video includes a little history, a complete tear-down and rebuilt, explanations, and tips for restoration and painting-and some tips on recovering from a faulty can of paint.
Video Content
00:00 History and Introduction
05:36 Disassembly
23:18 Cleaning: Soap and Water
24:55 Cleaning the Fount with BBs
27:31 Restoration: Cleaning with Citric Acid
28:49 Restoration: Cleaning with Steel Wool
32:09 Restoration: Polishing
36:00 Stripping Paint
38:36 Preparing Surfaces for Paint
42:23 Primer
47:49 Colour Coat - Uh, oh!
53:15 Colour Coat - Round Two
56:17 Reassembly
1:19:25 Light-up - Jak na to + styl
The green one to me is Gorgeous. Thanks for a comprehensive video.
Great video. I hope you dont stop producing these resyorations.
Excellent video. Thank you so much. I recently came into a nice KampKook stove and now have an interest in the AGM lanterns.
Beautiful job.
Beautiful lantern!
Nicely done as usual Bill!
Bill, another great lantern restoration; this time on a lovely Kamplite. Thanks for sharing the paint experience. It’s good to know that sometimes a can can be a dud.
It happens. I've got an upcoming Preway stove restoration video with even more dud cans of paint. That one really surprised me, because I was using expensive Duplicolor, not cheap Tremclad paint. Not only were the original cans I bought similarly short on pigment, but the replacement cans were a different shade of green.
Nice work very informative, enjoy your videos!
That turned out really nice Bill. I’ve got the RL2 version of that lantern that looks like it was pulled out of a swamp but runs like a champ. I’ve got an old American redi lite model 268 as well. With the original mica globe. It runs but the generator is junk. You almost have to take it off and clean it before you light it each time. I want to get an r55 generator for it. Thanks for another wonderful video.
I've worked with three AGM's. All ran fine but each one developed a leak at the top cleaner packing nut. That's something I check on every new AGM. Thanks for the great video.
My first AGM valve removal didn't go near as good. The valve twisted off in the fount. It was a steel fount with rust inside.
i remember using the in the 70's nyc hot dog carts used some thing like this to heat the dogs
you didnt pre burn the mantles
At about 1:19:30, when I return having gassed up the lantern and burned in the mantles (which I noted I had done) you can clearly see that they've been burned in.
@@king.coleman looked to me like the mantles were burning a bit strange looked like they were burning, when you had a hard time getting it lit
@@andrewfischer8564 All I'm seeing is a bit of initial flaring, which is normal until the generator is hot enough to varporise the fuel.
The quality of a lot of products is going down , even the more expensive ones.. So sad in these days.
Great video thankyou mhof_58