Stunning Topknot, I've you down in my head as the person to make me cases for mine when I get some cash. Really beautiful work.This is my lantern with a case i made up for it.
Topknot
Show Us Your Lanterns. (the thread formerly known as: -Northern Lights Lanterns -UCO)
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I've nearly always used and carried ether a Northern lights or a UCO lamp “well for the last 20 odd years that was” anyway until on my last trip when I came up with this little idea for a lamp, it gives off a very bright glow, perhaps the one thing I’m going to miss most from the old lamp is the flicker from the canal, that always looked good in a bothy, and perhaps having a bees wax canal handy.
Just a water bottle and a wee LED Cree torch
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Meths Bottle.
AYE 18/9/2014
Just a water bottle and a wee LED Cree torch.
.. Meths Bottle.AYE 18/9/2014
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I've nearly always used and carried ether a Northern lights or a UCO lamp well for the last 20 odd years that was anyway until on my last trip when I came up with this little idea for a lamp, it gives off a very bright glow, perhaps the one thing Im going to miss most from the old lamp is the flicker from the canal, that always looked good in a bothy, and perhaps having a bees wax canal handy.
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AYE 18/9/2014
Good idea that especially as it's using stuff you'll have with you anyway. There's a company that does replacement lids for Nalgene bottles that have LED (some with solar panels on too) built in so as to do a similar job. A nice eerie glow from that bottle though, like something from the Sci-Fi channel.
Cheers Goatboy.
Yea that was my thoughts exactly, combine two bits of kit you are already carrying and ditch the lamp, saves weight and a extra bit of space in the pack to boot and all thanks to the new generation of modern super bright LED torches. For marking out your kit at night or just sitting round camp just stick the torch up against the bottle and the torch is right there when you need it.
And yea it looked pretty Alien at first and a wee bit Sci-Fi radioactive isotope just lying on my pack at night, actually it kind of looks like something you wouldn’t really want to touch, but it gave off a great light ,Orange juice next.
AYE 18/9/2014
On a similar idea I picked up some of those LED balloons ages ago going cheap in Tesco. Used them a couple of times in the Tipi as a sort of night light, last for a couple of days in colder weather, though my JRT wanted to kill them like he did with all balloons.
Was just looking at the display that the local Rotary did for the Aid boxes they sent abroad recently and there were a couple of things that caught my eye. Nice Frontier stoves, pots pans and tools, but the wee inflatable lights that they had included looked good. LuminAID
Light, solar powered, inflatable. Pretty bright too, cast a good glow.
Anyone used one? Wondered how they are in real life.
Light, solar powered, inflatable. Pretty bright too, cast a good glow.
Anyone used one? Wondered how they are in real life.
Was just looking at the display that the local Rotary did for the Aid boxes they sent abroad recently and there were a couple of things that caught my eye. Nice Frontier stoves, pots pans and tools, but the wee inflatable lights that they had included looked good. LuminAID
Light, solar powered, inflatable. Pretty bright too, cast a good glow.
Anyone used one? Wondered how they are in real life.
ive got one on order should be here soon so ill let you know if any good
Cheers Sir, would be most pleased if you could. Looked nice and bright but would be interested to hear how they are to live with.
One other good thing about this lamp is it comes in 2 handy flavors Port and Starboard..
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Being as your doing electric. A cree R5 headtorch put in a plastic cup and under powered, connected to my solar battery with an old nokia phone charger cable. I thought if I was going to butcher something I wouldn't spend 40 quid on a lantern and cut it up. Buy the most efficient cree at that time sand the inside of a plastic cup with glass paper to diffuse it and put some tinfoil type stuff in to reflect half the light back so as not to be lighting the one side of the tent wall the light hangs from, you can turn the reflector round. Very pleased with the results. Nice and bright, at about 1 watt per hour. Two settings, one for seeing and one for just illumination. Undercooked the juice with a bog standard resistor,3.3 ohm, was a 4.5v headtorch, aaa battery, but undercooking it means I could take the heatsink out and run it really efficiently, but with the cost of the cup charger glue head torch etc came in at 25 quid, but I bet it's more efficient than a lot on the market by along way. Err got carried away.
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Is the pistol incase you get caught?
That's photo is soooooo good!
I was trying to photograph how a country life should feel (typed still sitting in that chair, with the knife in my pocket and a glass on that table)
I was trying to photograph how a country life should feel (typed still sitting in that chair, with the knife in my pocket and a glass on that table)
You succeeded mate
.On the book- have you ever read another book called 'poachers tales' one of the best things I've ever read- some great story's and interesting methods in that book. Fascinating.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poachers-Ta.../ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
That's the one- not sure why it's got a massive price- mine was under a tenner- great read.
That's the one- not sure why it's got a massive price- mine was under a tenner- great read
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