You do very nice work. When I was in the scouts back in the day we toted several of these lanterns around. Always gives me flashbacks. Nowadays im a campfire and LED in the camper guy, but every once in a while I want to break out an old lanternlike that. Just dont want to cary the coleman fuel about. :)
Yeah,
I don’t care for toting the fuel around either.,
But this will be the first time “in decades” that I’ll have a rig that I can haul it outside of the truck.(receiver hitch carrier)
It was so funny…
One of My Buddy’s boys came over (he’s 21)
And he was wondering what I was working on. He’s never seen one
We spent the day totally rebuilding a 1954.- 220.
We fired it up that evening and he was ecstatic (he was so confused) how those glowing mantles could cut thru the darkness.
The next night he was showing his Buddy ,
They just stared at it for hours.
As for the led ?
Yeah, those lanterns that you saw me converting to electric were compromised units , rusted thru tanks , stripped fount threads , broken necks etc…
it’s all good.
Gotta be doing something between trips !
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