Nice Den
I always look forward to seeing what you'll put together next.
Thanks. 
Modding and building lanterns are as much as a hobby as doing the same with Flashlights.
Nice mod, that will improve the camping vibes a lot! 
That was the idea for this, is to make the lantern give that classic turn of the century “feel” (without the smoky, danger of real kerosene flame) for use on camping trips, on the patio, etc. Also it will run for 50 - 60 hours on a charged set of eneloops, versus 4 hours for a tank of kerosene, and give the same light output.
Nice mod :beer:
Hey interesting to use the filaments found in a lot of new led bulbs hmm
Makes me want to go buy one… there’s just something about these lanterns that’s really attractive.
Now if 18650 fits…
it would be easy to mod to use 18650s, though you would have to use protected cells, or use a driver with protection circuit so the lantern don’t over-discharge the cell.
Sweet. You do an amazing job on these lanterns with your creativity. 
Sweet mod, great run time.
Do you have to do anything special with nimh batteries or can you build something the same way as with alkaline? Would battery holder, resister, wire and led be all that’s required to mod a lamp or do you need some type of driver/protection circuit?
Since it’s not high current, the dab of orange doesn’t smoke? Cool mod, and great runtime.
Love the creativity, and results are impressive! I’ve been scheming for a little while now about how to make a more attractive, efficient camping lantern. Thanks for the additional ideas!
Not that easy to OD Li-ion on this setup - with the high LED Vf plus resistor, it will moonlight for weeks before the voltage drops too far.
I have old 18650s soldered directly to similar LED & ~5k resistor. Moonlights for months - feels like some sort of infinite energy reactor.
Beautiful and creative mod, the essence of BLF!
Not at all. The lantern will run on either NiMH, Alkalines, or Zinc Carbon batteries with no prob. its a simple driverless resistor circuit. ( added with the varisistor that is built in to the on/off switch.
Like the Steam Pipe Light i built, its simple resistor circuit glow-tube been glowing now continuously for almost 2 years non stop on the same two Alkaline AA batteries.
I been building and modding Lanterns for years with the goal of achieving the “perfect” efficient camping lantern. Below are just some of them. All of them are modded in some way to improve them:
Nice LED~~LED conversion. ;~~)
That is just way too cool. Thanks for sharing!