Restored Vintage Travel Trailer Gas Lights: 2010

Friday, May 7, 2010

Restoration of vintage Sunbeam Sun-Lite Gas Lights

Since I started restoring vintage travel trailers as a hobby, I have discovered that there is no one out there bothers to restore rare vintage travel trailer gas lamps.

So I began buying the rare ones and decided I would restore, test and the resell them to other vintage trailer restorers, that is the ones I do not use for my own projects.

I have concentrated on the ones made by Sunbeam Trailer Products Inc., that were in Inglewood California, and now out of business. [There is a company with the exact same name in Huntington Beach, but I do not believe they had any real connections to the original manufacturer of these lamps] that provided gas lamps to many vintage trailer manufacturers.

I hope to demonstrate my restoration of these gas lamps in this blog. So far I have bought 3 of these vintage lamps as well as another model with a similar name.

Here are the lamps I currently own, and will soon begin to restore.

Before I knew better, I also bought this gas lamp because it was being sold strictly as a Sun-Lite gas lamp, but I later discovered that it was made by Humphrey and not Sunbeam, but I also plan to restore and later resale this lamp if I do not find a good home for it in a trailer I am restoring. This is a photo of a similar lamp, I will post the real photo once I have the chance to take a picture of it.

More advertising data from Sunbeam Trailer Products Posted 9/15/2011

Good information on the final page special instruction

Information about these Vintage Sunbeam gas lamps I have discovered

Along with the rareness of these lamps, I have also discovered that locating information was just as difficult.

Here is all of the data I have been able to locate about these lamps. As I locate more I will continue posting it to this blog. I would welcome anyone who may stumble onto this blog, if you have additional information I would welcome getting a copy so I can continuing updating it.

Cleaning the glass globe

I emailed and called many manufacture of gas lights and asked what was the safest thing to use on the globes to clean and refurbish then and I only got a single replay and it was merely a guess he sai try Mr. Clean Magic sponge, so I bought some and will give them a try, and then report my finding in this blog

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Began the gas lamp restoration

I bought 3 complete lamp [over paid for all of them] to insure I was able to have one complete working lamp so today I picked the best parts from all 3 lamps for my project lamp, I dissembled the lamp and cleaned it, I hope too be able to test it next week end pending finding the gas connection to attache it to my one pound tank and if the sing tied one mantle I have works, the first time out, otherwise I will have to locate more of the correct mantle to complete the project.

Today Sunday Sept 25, 2011 I made a test bench for the restored gas lamp so I could test it, , took the lamp I restored and installed it onto the test assembly and tested it and was very to find that everything worked correctly so I ended up getting it reinstalled back into the trailer I am restoring.