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Juno Flame Speader
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Juno Flame Speader by Steve Peterson
Posted: August 19, 1998 @ 19:37.
I have recently bought a nice embossed brass Juno #2 lamp. Someone at some point and time had done an electrical conversion. Luckily they did not damage any part of the lamp except that they had tossed out the flame speader. I would like to know what the flame speader looks like so if I find one I can put it aside so that I can restore the lamp back to kerosene at a later date. Thanks - Steve Peterson
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On August 20, 1998 @ 09:29, Fil Graff, Guild Secretary
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Steve: Is the #2 the big store lamp? I'll look at my accumulation in the shop later to see if I have an extra (and I'm sure someone who reads your question will. I'd hope someone will offer to send you one!). I'm reasonably sure the FS is like the Rayo...thimble with a disk atop it. The store lamp doesn't seem to have a disk like the Rochester. The table lamp Juno restores well, and seems a better burner than the Rayo, but is still nothing special for those used to an Aladdin! I've never been able to restore a store lamp without unacceptable smoking. :: Fil ::
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On August 21, 1998 @ 09:33, Steve Peterson
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The lamp in question is a table lamp with a heavy cast foot; about the size of a Rayo lamp. I figure that I could use a Rayo FS because the lamp socket that is currently in it fits in the draft tube nicely like they do in the Rayo. Thanks again. - Steve
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On August 21, 1998 @ 09:53, Fil Graff, Guild Secretary
wrote:
Steve: There IS a specific FS for the table JUNO...I didn't have one in the shop. One size is a perforated thimble with a disk very near the top, another size in just a thimble with a constricted "waist" (images are in the reprinted Edw. Miller catalogue). As long as the disk is marginally larger than the wick itself, it will spread the flame, so I guess, if the shoe fits, burn it (awful mixed metaphor, but clear!) :: Fil ::
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On August 21, 1998 @ 09:53, Fil Graff, Guild Secretary
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