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Best way to clean this. Lantern. Hopes dashed

I was getting to wonder if it deliberately had perforations in the inner skin to allow drain back or air flow to stop a vacuum forming?
Then I thought, YouTube, there's always a video showing how everything is made and there was one from the company but lacking this section.
Then, when just doing another search and looking at the same embedded video on their website the trailer frame showed an uncropped view of the unassembled parts.
There is indeed a separate piece, I believe, crimped into the fuel reservoir at the line I've highlighted in this picture.
Now, is this crimp intended to be a watertight seal and if so it must also be so around the filler hole....
Alternatively it may have been soldered from below whilst access was available before fitting the bottom?
Cheers, Andy
Ps It's a shame we can't tag the company here like on Instagram, as, I'm sure they would pick up this chat and I dare say be very interested in the story of this lamp.

feuerhand.com

Brand Story

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I was in a very interesting little shop in Tunbridge Wells yesterday that sells lots of interesting things that we want but don't need. They had brand new versions of this lamp for £49. Not a cheap shop or town, so I expect that can be had new for less. Agree that the manufacturer would probably be interested in this story for their own marketing. Good idea.
 
I’ll watch that vid later Andy thank you. I have contacted Feuerhand about likely sources for a new glass. I received a polite reply but little else.
 
This might be a long shot, but Mr Purves' Lighting Emporium on St Stephen Street in the ‘burgh might be able to help. ‘bout a 10 min walk from my Edinburgh place. Old man Purves died about 8 years ago, but the shop seems still to be going. Vast, and random, selection of oil lamps and parts thereof. No, really. I am on nodding terms with his (second) wife a bit, a near neighbour. The shop was still operating (as far as it ever did) last time I walked past.

Very internet unfriendly. Actually customer unfriendly. But if you tell me exactly what I am looking for I can but ask.
 
PM sent, thanks. It is just a glass I would really like to replace.

Any leak I can either repair or just use the lantern with extreme caution.
 
Here's one I didn't prepare earlier, been hanging outside my house for a fair few years.
I'd love to put it through the bandsaw to give a cross section of this Chinese copy. :unsure: 😉
Cheers, Andy
 

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