I have taken my "Blizzard" out of the electrolysis bucket, scrubbed it with a Brillo pad, dried it in the oven @ 170 degrees, wire brushed it with my Dremel and went over it with 00 steel wool.
Questions: This lantern now is bare metal with about half dark grey metal and the other half an aluminum looking finish (tin plating?) and I want to remove the tin plate. I would like the lantern all the dull dark grey without any of the splotched tin plate. How to remove the tin plate that is left on lantern? Reason, I want to use a Cold Gun Blue on the lantern, no paint and no boiled linseed oil. Has anyone done this and how were the results?
More questions: I removed the chimney on a Little Wizard by using a "radiator hose adjustable clamp", but bent the retainer ring up on the chimney when trying to install it back in the lantern (what a pain) and I would really like to know how y'all remove the chimney assembly AND install it without any damages?
One more question: What is the correct globe for this lantern? It is the size of a No.2 Blizzard although it doesn't say Blizzard. On the tank "DIETZ", "N.Y.U.S.A.", "*USMC*", it has two oval DIETZ on the chimney cap, chimney cap pull ring has a brass hinge (just the hinge) and on the tube "PATENTED, MAY 4-20, DEC 27-32, MADE IN U.S.A., -42". Lantern globe wires appear made for a LOC-NOB globe, but a plain jane red globe came with the lantern. Tank fuel fill tube (spout) appears to be copper or maybe brass. Also the bottom of the large tank is a "sunburst" design.
I will try to get some pictures up soon.
Thanks to everyone!
Bob L.
central Florida
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