Paraffin Railway Lamp Well

ciarang85

Hi,

not sure if this is the right forum for this but i'll give it a go anyway!

I have a small paraffin well & burner for a railway lamp but the paraffin well has a few small rust holes on the bottom, does anyone know how to repair this without welding? or know where i could get it done?

Don't want to buy a whole new well as they go for high enough money on ebay.

Attached pics below

Thanks very much!

gobnaitolunacy

ciarang85 wrote: »

Hi,

not sure if this is the right forum for this but i'll give it a go anyway!

I have a small paraffin well & burner for a railway lamp but the paraffin well has a few small rust holes on the bottom, does anyone know how to repair this without welding? or know where i could get it done?

Don't want to buy a whole new well as they go for high enough money on ebay.

Attached pics below

Thanks very much!

Are you actually going to put paraffin in it and light it? If not, I wouldn't bother.

If you are going to do that, those oil reservoirs were soldered together, if you know any hobbyist that has a soldering iron they may sort you out and block the holes with a bit of solder. You can't weld that material as it's too thin.

If you want to search ebay, there should be loads of bits and entire lamps. A bog-standard British railways pattern red tail lamp in good shape shouldn't cost more than 10 or 15 pounds and bits for them shouldn't cost more than a couple of quid. Anyone who charges more is a BS artist.
I'm guessing what you have is from a tail lamp as its a rectangular reservoir.

ciarang85

hi thanks for the reply, yeah i have one of the tail lamps.

Have a soldering iron at home and never even thought of using it for that, thanks very much!

gobnaitolunacy

Make sure there's no traces of oil on it before you start at it with a hot iron though!

ciarang85

ha ha i will!