OK, I finally got a chance to fire up the petromax this morning.
Tank was already filled with kerosene, I have no idea how old the fuel is.
I am working out of a hotel room at present and I do not really want to go buy any fuel.
It took 100 pumps to get the pressure up to the red line. - as reference I usually pump my military coleman lanterns 45-50pumps.
New mantle in place, the quick start "flamethrower" worked well:
After 60sec of flamethrower, turn it off and turn on the fuel to the mantle, fired right up:
Had to pump an additional 25 times.
After about a minute, the mantle seasoned and worked fine:
This is my first kerosene (multi-fuel) lantern and I can say it works extremely well. You know those Germans......
and it's a damn nice looking lantern.
Sorry if I offended anyone with the girlyman comment, but for the amount of use this thing will get,
I think I can handle pumping it.
I am not THAT old........... yet.