Hi Miles! Long time customer here. Looking forward to seeing your lamps and hearing your comments and information. You are a treasured resource for lamp geeks. :)
Good morning, The Help will be uploading new episodes of lamps from both of our collections so stay tuned and thank you for your loyalty. Blessings, Miles
I find that raising and lowering the Kosmos type wick is simply difficult. next I have several of the Amercian center draft..on the Rayo the wicks always raise and lower easily on the others sometimes I have to raise the wick to an appropriate height by hand, reassemble the burner, leave it there and never use the wick raisers. They rarely work well.
I’ve had almost the same experience with all of the Kosmos lamps that I have saved for the P&A burners made in America. They seem to operate very well. One thing that can help us to make sure both the inside of the outside of the area, the wick slides in is nice and clean and shiny and all polished.
I have a number 8 alladin looking at you vidio it has the hole in the midle all the way threw is there any way you could do a vidio on. That modle i just came by it an i would like to no how it put to gether mine i think is missing the wik riser an flame spredder an what type of wik would it take thanks so mutch
The "Kosmos" you show is a Gaudard version of a Matador, minus its flame spreader, they aren't very good burners sadly. Actual Kosmos burners don't have the deflector cone and have a taller wick tube.
@@TheWickShop yes, I remember having one once, it was a nightmare to get a good flame, not a patch on real Matador burners. Gaudard don't seem to care about things like correct chimneys, they sell some Kosmos lamps with Vienna bulge type chimneys on their website (last time I looked).
Honestly though, if you run them as a kosmos with one of our sans-rival pattern, chimneys outside of the wick being difficult to raise and lower, they do pretty good.
@@TheWickShop I've been after a perfection heater for years, all i come across is gutted ones with a bulb.... i did find one with the glass view, the whole bottom of the tube was glass... but it was missing the flame spreader, and good luck finding one of those.
I always recommend the Wick Shop on antique lamp forums and to fellow collectors. Hands down the best. Excited about this channel.
Thank you! We are excited as well!
Stoked for your channel ! You have been very helpful and knowledgeable online and through email ! Love to see more about these lamps !!
Thank you very much! We have been kicking the idea around for a while and we have a large library of lamps and heaters to detail and explore!
Hi Miles! Long time customer here. Looking forward to seeing your lamps and hearing your comments and information. You are a treasured resource for lamp geeks. :)
Good morning,
The Help will be uploading new episodes of lamps from both of our collections so stay tuned and thank you for your loyalty.
Blessings,
Miles
New subscriber, thanks for the detailed video, waiting for new updates 😊
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very good info. thanks
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Good information, and thank you.
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I find that raising and lowering the Kosmos type wick is simply difficult. next I have several of the Amercian center draft..on the Rayo the wicks always raise and lower easily on the others sometimes I have to raise the wick to an appropriate height by hand, reassemble the burner, leave it there and never use the wick raisers. They rarely work well.
I’ve had almost the same experience with all of the Kosmos lamps that I have saved for the P&A burners made in America. They seem to operate very well. One thing that can help us to make sure both the inside of the outside of the area, the wick slides in is nice and clean and shiny and all polished.
I have a number 8 alladin looking at you vidio it has the hole in the midle all the way threw is there any way you could do a vidio on. That modle i just came by it an i would like to no how it put to gether mine i think is missing the wik riser an flame spredder an what type of wik would it take thanks so mutch
I will have to look but I think the wick riser on those is included with the wick like most Aladdin lamps.
The "Kosmos" you show is a Gaudard version of a Matador, minus its flame spreader, they aren't very good burners sadly. Actual Kosmos burners don't have the deflector cone and have a taller wick tube.
You are correct. In fact, it was so bad as a Matador that we took the flame spreader out and run it like a Kosmos.
@@TheWickShop yes, I remember having one once, it was a nightmare to get a good flame, not a patch on real Matador burners. Gaudard don't seem to care about things like correct chimneys, they sell some Kosmos lamps with Vienna bulge type chimneys on their website (last time I looked).
Honestly though, if you run them as a kosmos with one of our sans-rival pattern, chimneys outside of the wick being difficult to raise and lower, they do pretty good.
I hate it when i find a nice lamp or heater that someone destroyed by gutting it, sticking a light bulb in and painting flowers on it....
The worst is when someone guys and paints a Perfection heater and outs a bulb in it…
@@TheWickShop I've been after a perfection heater for years, all i come across is gutted ones with a bulb.... i did find one with the glass view, the whole bottom of the tube was glass... but it was missing the flame spreader, and good luck finding one of those.
They come up on eBay occasionally but I think we may have one or two floating around. Send us an email and we will see what we can do.