Ron Brown

Book 6: Kerosene Pressure Lanterns Ron Brown

Publisher Marketing: This is Book 6 in The Non-Electric Lighting Series. The series is aimed at people who want to survive whatever it is that Mother Nature throws at us - blizzards, blackouts, or Carrington events. Lanterns that use mantles produce light on par with electric lights. And KEROSENE mantle lanterns have an advantage over lamps that use Coleman fuel. Kerosene is more generic, more widely available. The book has four basic sections: (1) It describes six different Coleman models, old and new, made specifically for kerosene. Collectors' items (expensive) and orphans (no spare parts) are ignored. The emphasis is on practical, day-to-day lighting. (2) It gives the specifics on converting nine different Coleman gas lanterns to kerosene (what generator to use, etc.). (3) It explains Petromax lanterns, a pre-World War II German design. World-wide, there are more Petromax lanterns (and Petromax clones) in existence than Coleman. (4) And it explains Aladdin lamps, kerosene lamps that use a mantle but are not pressurized. Aladdins have been around over a hundred years and a new model is on the verge of being introduced - the first new model in 46 years! And - oh yes! - this book names eleven different lantern models that, given the right generator-mantle combo, will burn diesel fuel. That alone is worth the price of admission! If you picture yourself being forced to live off-grid for an extended period of time, then THIS is the book you need. You don't have to cook supper or fix the car or deliver a baby by the light of a candle. You can have light equivalent to a 50 or 100 or 200 or 300-watt electric bulb. Pressurized kerosene lanterns come from another day and age but are known, established, reliable technology. This book is not artsy-fartsy. It's nitty-gritty. Contributor Bio:  Brown, Ron Ron Brown is a geographer and travel author of more than twenty books, including "Rails to the Atlantic", "The Train Doesn t Stop Here Anymore", and "Back Roads of Ontario". He is past chair of the Writers Union of Canada and leads tours of Ontario s unusual sights. He lives in Toronto.