Ok to recap a bit when I picked up our Skamper from
@Uncle Gump he threw in a battleworn 220K. Looked like it had fireballed.
The fount had seen better days too:
It had an outright leak on the side:
So after some thinking I decided that since I got it from a friend and I don't have anything in it I could kinda justify spending a little time and money fixing it. And since a K isn't a real desirable lantern it might not be a bad one to learn how to go more in depth on. If I screw it up isn't isn't like I screwed up a 100 year old classic.
So I strip it to see what I have to work with.
This is the second lantern I have had that seems to have had a fuel leak around the cleaner crank (and gone fireball)
Yummy!
Used my check valve tool to pull the check valve
Looks like the last guy didn't have the tool
Valve was free but I gave it a bath in the carb tank anyway
Ok, I think everything is good except for the fount, I can't do much there. I snagged a better looking vent for my 220J for like $4 online... what does a fount run.
$9.99 buy it now on Ebay, its like two months newer than the original one. Good enough for me.
Ok, the frame looks like crap, off to google I go. Folks seem to like evaporust so I snag a gallon of that and start soakin parts.
Throw it together, snug up the nut for the cleaner crank and throw some fuel at it:
And it works!