Already from the start of the historical light fascination I wanted to have a working gaslamp at outside of the house.
Having a family and not completely bogus I wanted also a safe light. So the hunt was on.
After some years I met a nice german gaslamp collector who has several gaslanterns in his garden.


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Now the fever was getting high.
I left with a BAMAG U7 gas lamp head, which had an automatic piezo on/off, a safety system and four gas mantles.


Time flew away and another year went. Then in spring 2009 fever got high again.
Now the action also kicked in. I had to design a corner wall mount for my flat wall lamp arm. Thanks to SketchUp from google I made a wall mount as well as a first impression:



Then the real thing was made:


Meanwhile I was wrestling with the old but nasty techniques. All parts where there, everything was in perfect condition but no gas would pas the valves.
After consulting Andreas, Rolf and Antonius and finally my neighbour Bart. All problems where reduced to conflicting safety valves.
- I tested the lamp with a gasbottle with an attached pressure reduce valve (hand operated). This valve has however a safety feature: if you open the bottle to fast, a safety valve closses.....

- I used a hand operated reduce valve, which pressure should I use ??

- The lamp head has a reduce valve too, with the same feature attached. But working in another direction: if the gas pressure (from bottle) was more then 35 millibar a valve closed and can only the reset whith releasing the trapped gas inside the tubes.

Put all these options together and the days and evenings fly by.

But finally the moment came closer to a final test:
building it all together with gas mantles attached and waiting for the darkness to arrive....
Then there was light a soft and almost fragile light pushed the darkness away.