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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

    Wow this is an old thread, I'm quite supprised it's still alive, to DinaC62 crinkle black would be correct and original to your lantern, they were also sometimes red, but silver aluminum paint or in some cases bare aluminum, you will also find sometimes the bezel and or the handle polished out...
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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

    sound's interesting, please get some photos up, from your description I cannot ID the lamp, but sometimes makers would put other names on the product to be sold by outside dealers, look at the grether examples in my own collection. as far as getting photos up, I use imageshack, but photobucket...
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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

    the powerlites used standard flanged flashlight bulbs in the front and miniature screw base in the top, I got a 4 cell xenon maglite bulb and installed it in the front and it makes quite an improvement, the top bulb can be replaced with one rated a little lower then 6 volts, it won't last as...
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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

    That's fantastic, it will be nice to have a parts source, I have one with a broken handle and missing lid (lost in move :confused: ) anyway, much looking forward to seeing some new pictures, ads, or anything else you would like to post, also is nice to hear the old patterns still exist, I must...
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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

    It looks like an old delta, however this lantern was made by a number of makers during wwII I have seen them marked "NU BEACON ELECTRIC" and I know there were a couple other companies who made them during the war, but cant remember any more names right now, the paint looks pretty good on it...
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    What parts to use and where to get them.

    wow:twothumbs, I read the whole project, what a great light, and I like that led, from the beam shots I would think it was an incan, they have really improving them in the past few years, thanks for your help, I will probably just good a good quality boot and encase one of the dozens of toggles...
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    What parts to use and where to get them.

    forgive me for my ignorance, but what would be a suitable toggle or other panel mount switch to use in a dive light, I don't intend to take it very deep, 25 feet max, I don't dive, I snorkel, and a light to look in between boulders and such might be handy, plus it would be nice to have an...
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    Looking for some info on Navy Flood Lanterns and/or Willard batteries

    I think that the ones you are talking about used to use wet cells, though they could be wired up with some modern batteries, that's about all I know about them i see them pop up on ebay once in a while, perhaps I'll buy one one of these days :thinking:
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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

    that's about right except you have to factor in space taken by the battery holder, one has to be made to take up very little space, I know in the "style No.6" grethers that two d cells will barley fit, I will need to get some thin-walled plastic of copper tubes to make a holder for them. with...
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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

    I have powered them on d cells, I intend to install a battery holder which I will make to fit in the lantern, based on how many cells I can manage to cram in there I will probably order the brightest incan I can find and mod it so it has a duel contact bayonet base and will fit the original...
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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

    It appears that the tags on your new one are made of aluminum, real nice find. If I were you I would consider making a replica battery pack that could be reloaded with a common pack or cells. You could make a scan of your original label and make a wood of perhaps stiff cardboard case with a...
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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

    lol this thread is #1 on google for "grether lantern" :twothumbs
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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

    awesome, can you post some pictures of the battery?
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    My antique electric lantern and flashlight collection (many pics)

    I would think it's a tapped coil, it's hard to make out what the label says but I will see later on If I can take it off for a better look, I find it interesting that the instructions inside of the lantern say to charge with direct current only, this was probably made during what is commonly...
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