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.