Restoration of Battered Antique Railway Oil Lamp

[@Austeration]

Very nice job 👍 that putty looked frustrating. Turned out great. Good work.

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thanks! 😁 Yeah, that old putty took a while to get rid of. As a functional repair I can see why someone would have done that instead of soldering new beads in though. It certainly did the job!

[@Austeration]

@@OldtoNewRestorations well it looks so much better now that you have returned it to its former glory.

[@MichaelVorn]

👍👍👍 The lantern must be completely disassembled. :)))

[@james-5560]

Beautiful old lamp, thanks

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thanks for watching! 👍

[@RESTORATIONOFSCRAPMETAL]

Great job buddy 👍

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thanks! 👍

[@RESTORATIONOFSCRAPMETAL]

@@OldtoNewRestorationsyou are welcome !

[@myrestorations]

Top restoration 👍 🙌

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thanks! 👍

[@Instone09ine]

Very good job well done😊

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thanks! 👍

[@patstrailertopics5975]

Nice job. I did not think the paint would look so good!

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thank you! I had my doubts too; I nearly painted it black, but though it would be worth at least trying to match the original paint. TBH, it looks even better in person; the camera makes it look a little muted. I'm happy with the way it came out!

[@larrykelly2838]

Great job

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thanks! 🙂

[@Cradley684]

Nice job friend, look's good, have a nice day & Stay Safe !!!.

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thanks, you too!

[@boriscar]

Awesome job 🔥👍👍👍

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thanks! 👍

[@-Deena.]

Lovely find! For soldering like that you need to pretty much flood the area with liquid flux, heat the whole area, then dab the solder on and like magic it spreads between and underneath the two surfaces you are joining really neatly 🧡 It's super cool to watch. ❤

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thanks! Yeah, there's definitely an art to it. I need much more practice (and more suitable equipment!). I was also having to be careful with the heat - I cracked two bits of glass due to overheating while testing/practicing off camera. Definitely cool to watch, I agree. If you like that kind of thing, and you haven't seen it already, I recommend giving Clickspring's channel a look. He makes it all look so easy!

[@-Deena.]

@@OldtoNewRestorations Im a clickspring addict! He is quite amazing! Creates such stunning work. Also My Mechanics...unbelievable restorations. 100% amazing. I must be subbed to every resto channel in existence ...plus Im a silversmith so hands on with silver solder is something very familiar to me. Clean, clean, flux, flux, and flux, heat, heat and then solder 😁 Ive been subscribed to you since you started. I see good things for the future for you! 💙 Thank you for your uploads, I really enjoy them.

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

@@-Deena. Thank you for your kind words! I'm enjoying what I do here, so I'm going to keep on doing it (hopefully getting bigger and better with each video!) 👍 I really enjoy watching silversmiths at work, too. There are a few on KZbin that I enjoy watching, it's very relaxing. Silver soldering is on my list of skills to learn, once I've got regular soldering cracked of course!

[@restorationconstantines7731]

very well!

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thank you! 👍

[@restaurandocoisasvelhas]

Thank you friend. Excellent video. I'm already your subscriber.

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thank you too!

[@leonardcrane6689]

Looks like a gauge lamp, used to backlight the water gauges at night .

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Argh, that was it! I found that when I was doing some research ages ago, I just couldn't remember the proper term when I was putting the video together. Thanks for the info! 👍

[@manuelsoul1]

Vai avanti così fratello, sei bravissimo e presto acquisirai moltissimi iscritti, un saluto.

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Grazie! 👍😁

[@dougfurman3265]

You need a much bigger soldering iron like 100 to 150 watt and use an acid based flux, it will solder better. Acid based fluxs are liquid not paste and clean the surface better, work much better for this. Also a silver bearing solder flows really good here, Love the lantern great job,

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thanks!

[@Dumfries474]

Another fine restoration. One thing that will give a better solder finish is if you use a copper soldering bolt. Heat it with your burner first then you get a more accurate joint as heat is transfered to the solder directly from the bolt and not the surrounding metal. Unlike previous comment from Deena that is totally wrong.

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Yes, there's a lot to learn with this kind of soldering for sure! I'm more used to electronics soldering, which is only slightly related.

[@oneshotme]

It looks great and you did a masterful job restoring it as well!!!! You can tell the glass isn't original it's to clear to be sadly and more than likely where the putty come from someone else trying to restore it. Why didn't you want to paint the handle?? That would have been the last time fuel and fire would be in it if it was mine! Enjoyed the video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Thanks! 👍 I'm fairly sure at least the rear glass is original though; if it's been replaced at any point whoever did it did a very good job, I couldn't see any sign of repair or replacement. I didn't paint the handle as I'm fairly sure it wouldn't have been painted before; I think the polished metal gives a nice contrast (same as the fuel tank). And yes, it'll likely just be a display piece from now on; I just like things to work as they should, even if they're never actually used 🙂

[@oneshotme]

@@OldtoNewRestorations You're very welcome!! Oh yeah you have to see if it works right lol

[@keithagn]

Well done; that was a lot of fussy work! Something that old/era could be lead paint. Be careful!

[@OldtoNewRestorations]

Yes, a very good point there. I did the cleaning and paint stripping a while back and didn't consider that; I do know better these days. Not that there was a lot of paint left anyway! 😆