The brass Teale is a radiator/sump heater, and. I suspect the steel lamp with the circular lock was used as one too. The steel lamp had had the locking ring and the lug for the lead slug ground off, very rough job, and the fuel cell was badly marked too. Also, the porcelain burner was missing. As I said before, it’s amazing what you can do with basic tools, but there is a limit. A good and very talented friend of mine made a new locking ring for me, and I was able to make a template from another lamp to drill the holes in it. I also had to make a new locking lug, and solder it on. So far so good, then I saw this wreck of the brass one, which had a porcelain burner. I bought it, and the end result was one nicely restored Teale.
It was then that I decided to conduct an exercise in futility. The brass Teale had been exposed to so much long term intense heat, the brass around the inlet air holes was disintegrating, and was only just attached. I removed it, drilled out the old rivets, made some small brass right-angled brackets, and used small brass nuts and bolts to attach them back to the bonnet lid, filed the slots off the screw heads, then soldered the top back on. I had to make a new burner, just plain brass, but it doesn’t look too bad!
See also a good example of Teales trademark ‘ Star of David ‘, often these have been polished off.
– Information provided by Bosuns Mate.
