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Post by owldbutt on Jan 20, 2012 8:58:57 GMT -5
Hi All,
I have a Protector SL6 safety lamp, the one with platinum wire inside which glows when you put a charge of 4/5 volts between the base and the ring bellow the glass, I am told the platinum wires are no longer available is there an alternative that will work.
Cheers Owld Butt...
Ps The lable on the lamps says that it is a GR6S, its original lable has been removed and a inscription put on the new one I will post about this another time.
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Post by shropshirebloke on Jan 20, 2012 9:36:42 GMT -5
It sounds like you might have the bonnet of a GR6S and the base from an SL. The GR6S is a spark relighter with a little port below the glass where you could inject an air sample with a rubber bulb., when it wasn't practical to place the actual lamp into the body of air being tested.
I'm sure I read on here a while ago that fuse wire will do the trick instead of the platinum wire - I haven't tried it myself but it can't do any harm. You'd obviously have to try different amp ratings to find which one worked without melting.
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Post by John on Jan 20, 2012 9:36:56 GMT -5
Hi All, I have a Protector SL6 safety lamp, the one with platinum wire inside which glows when you put a charge of 4/5 volts between the base and the ring bellow the glass, I am told the platinum wires are no longer available is there an alternative that will work. Cheers Owld Butt... Ps The lable on the lamps says that it is a GR6S, its original lable has been removed and a inscription put on the new one I will post about this another time.
His email address is dmather@protectorlamps.com |
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Post by John on Jan 20, 2012 9:45:53 GMT -5
And as Shropshirelad says, the GR6 was an officials relightable lamp which had a stainless steel bonnet.
The workmans lamp had an ordinary steel bonnet that took on a brown patina
Here's some illustrations of the relightable lamps, the Garforth and it's predecessor....coalcollieryandmining.110mb.com/NMGF.html
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Post by shropshirebloke on Jan 20, 2012 12:25:27 GMT -5
Maurice Dawson (click this link to see his list + contact details: www.thewandofscience.net/spare%20parts%205-07.pdfsupplies a vast range of spares and newly-made parts. If you scroll down towards the end he says that he can supply pretty well anything for later model Protectors, including the SL and GR6. |
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Post by owldbutt on Jan 24, 2012 10:21:28 GMT -5
Hi all,
Thanks for your replies, The hood on the lamp is stainless steel, but i am sure the label has been removed and replaced with a new one, I think there would have been a pit name or number on it, on the new label is the inscription [ WHARNCLIFF WOODMOOR 1.2.3. PITS DISASTER 6th AUGUST 1936] as the lamp was not made before 1966 I think it was presented to someone in 1985 when a memorial was erected to this disaster in I think Barnsley, to who it was presented I don't know, as the lamp was bought in a junk shop in Preston in 2009 for £5 if anyone can give me more information I would be grateful.
Many Thanks..
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Post by dazbt on Jan 24, 2012 17:16:07 GMT -5
Hi all, Thanks for your replies, The hood on the lamp is stainless steel, but i am sure the label has been removed and replaced with a new one, I think there would have been a pit name or number on it, on the new label is the inscription [ WHARNCLIFF WOODMOOR 1.2.3. PITS DISASTER 6th AUGUST 1936] as the lamp was not made before 1966 I think it was presented to someone in 1985 when a memorial was erected to this disaster in I think Barnsley, to who it was presented I don't know, as the lamp was bought in a junk shop in Preston in 2009 for £5 if anyone can give me more information I would be grateful. Many Thanks.. Can I ask what leads you to believe that the lamp was presented in 1985, obviously you have some reason for believing that? In 1979 a memorial 'half pulley wheel' was originally set up within a reclaimed area of the Wharncliffe Woodmoor 1,2 & 3 site dedicated to the disaster but this was later moved to an area nearer to the main road and a 'sculptered brick wall' added in 2008, I'm not aware of anything happenning in 1985, not to say that there wasn't some sort of presentation service though. |
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Post by owldbutt on Jan 28, 2012 16:19:06 GMT -5
Hi dazbt,
Thanks for your reply, When I did the original research for the Wharncliff Woodmoor Disaster I must have got it wrong, Thanks for putting it write.
Thanks an embarrassed Owld Butt...
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Post by dazbt on Jan 28, 2012 17:32:38 GMT -5
Hi dazbt, Thanks for your reply, When I did the original research for the Wharncliff Woodmoor Disaster I must have got it wrong, Thanks for putting it write. Thanks an embarrassed Owld Butt... No need to be embarrased about owt, the more I have thought about it I can't get it out of my head that there might have been some sort of memorial service around that time. I believe that the original memorial was moved because it was situated in new parkland reclaimed from pit land some distance from view of the road and was vandalised. A superb fishing lake was created and the whole area declared as a Memorial Park, it may have been that there was some sort of inauguration of this at that time. I thought that there may have been that date somewhere on the lamp. I live about a mile away from the memorial and will get some pics of the wall and inscription this coming week to post here. |
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Post by dazbt on Jan 29, 2012 8:27:33 GMT -5
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Post by dazbt on Jan 29, 2012 9:27:31 GMT -5
a couple more of the wall;   |
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Post by owldbutt on Feb 5, 2012 5:50:51 GMT -5
Hi Dazbt,
Thanks for the information and photos, Having looked at the lamp more closely the only date on the inscription is the date of the disaster, But as you suggested the hood may be from a different lamp, the bottom is dated 85, the middle 76, and the hood who knows, Having only recently taken a interest in mine safety lamps I'm assuming 85 is 1985, 76 is 1976, So it must have been presented in 1985 or later, A Friend gave me a new platinum wire which I fitted, It worked a treat, but like most blokes I had to keep playing with It and I burnt it out, So back to the drawing board, I experimented with various wires, Then a mate who I work with gave me some stainless wire used in MiG welders, its a bit slower in heating up, works well easy to get hold of, and cheap, Many thanks again for your post and photos.
Cheers Owld Butt...
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