Tilley lamps

[Kim]

A Tilley in lieu of a campfire makes sense, certainly.  That's not really a lighting thing, though.

[drossall]

Point of order: Your LED won't run out, because, in the interests of Being Prepared you will have done the maths^[1].

Once you include the fudge factor for Scouts leaving all the available lights on from 3 hours before sundown, and not turning them off at the end of the evening, the carefully-calculated burn time goes rather out of the window though...

[jsabine]

I'd have thought the fudge factor was simply to calculate consumption on the basis of them being on 24/7, and accept anything less as a bonus. After all, who are you to suggest that the interior of a storage bag or an unoccupied tent doesn't need to be illuminated?

[drossall]

Fair point. So the maths is all about how many spare lights I have squirrelled away where they won't be found until I reveal them

[Kim]

Strikes me that illuminating the interior of a storage bag with a Tilley lamp is a self-solving problem...   

(There's a lot to be said for a torch - or indeed battery bike light - with some sort of molly-guard functionality^[1] on the on switch.  It doesn't happen often, but you can guarantee it'll switch itself on at the least helpful time.)


_{[1] IME "Hold down for 1 second" barely qualifies.}

[Wowbagger]

Ibelieve there to be adapters so that you can use your Tilley lamp to boil kettles and the like.

I have a brace of Tilleys hanging in the garage. One I bought second hand, the other my brother bought new when we used to go night fishing. That one must be nearly 50 years old now.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Tilley lamp instead of a campfire is all well and good but can you toast Tunnock's tea cakes on one?

[drossall]

Probably (the top gets pretty hot) but they'd taste of paraffin...

[jsabine]

Tilley lamp instead of a campfire is all well and good but can you toast Tunnock's tea cakes on one?

Wouldn't they be inclined to melt rather than toast?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Haven't tried – yet. Have been told they are a Thing.

[aidan.f]

You can run Primus stoves on white spirit, and so, I presume tilley lamps, which is readily available .