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    Oldest flashlight

    Boxed Ever Ready five cell torch. American Eveready, Union Carbide and Brightstar.
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    Oldest flashlight

    This has to be another old lamp except its metal cased, battery that came with it is later though. CEAG safety torch.
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    Why do you collect flashlights?

    It is an odd hobby over here in England because a few sellers i talk to at carboot sales have never heard of it and some find it strange but i tend to think each to there own an there is a collector for everything so why not flashlights, i started out with radios until i found some old torch...
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    Strange East German Artas Torch, Five cell

    No storage bit for a spare bulb which is strange because when you add the extra battery tube you have to fit a higher voltage bulb, The second tube is def part of the torch as i have looked at these on Ebay but there not in England, Not sure if the Germans are ahead of there time but there is...
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    bardic lamp help

    See here http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?312047-British-Chloride-Bardic-rail-signal-lamps&highlight=bardic
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    bardic lamp help

    These were used on railways and they all looked the same, some have NR on and some have NRS, They were made by Chloride an mine have PAT no1042127. They can be converted to use three D cells but i rebuild the AD28 batteries. I have a thread on here about these batteries and the lamps, there is...
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    Early Ever Ready hand torch, strange battery size, Restored and working.

    1930s looking at what battery it used as i have a smaller one made by Franco that i had to make a battery pack for by using two AAAs. Also English Ever Ready did not use a logo much during that time where as later lamps had the logo.
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    Penlights/ modern and old

    Around mid 60s and after as thats when Ever ready changed there logo an there colour. This remaind up until early 80s.
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    Penlights/ modern and old

    Very hard to find even with out the packaging, i picked this up for a few quid of the market. It runs on two AAA cells or in old size U16 or HP16, no modifying needed with these. This one dates just after mid 60s as Ever Ready went to light blue packaging as did there batteries an the logo...
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    Another strange torch

    This one was designed to run of two U8 1.5V cells, These are no longer made an were hard to get even in those days but in my other Pifco lamp it says remove the card cover of a No8 3V cell an inside are two U8s. This is a mock up U8 i made. The cell came out of an old scuffed No8 so i gutted it...
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    Strange East German Artas Torch, Five cell

    Picked this up today for 50p, very cheap. The strange thing is that you can unscrew one part to just use it on two cells or add the extra tube an use five but you have to change the bulb to do this so dont understand the purpose of this. I have never seen a torch that you can do this with. Artas...
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    Early Ever Ready hand torch, strange battery size, Restored and working.

    Thanks folks, The challange with these is building the batteries to fit because there were some strange sizes. This one was very rusty outside but clean inside so decided to do a recover of the outer part.
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    Early Ever Ready hand torch, strange battery size, Restored and working.

    I am not sure of the battery size as this did not come with the original battery that i could rebuild so i had to guess, The bulb was 2.5V so that i knew that had to be 3V. The size looking at the torch barrel looked like it would take a cell with two u10s in series, you can hack these from a...
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    Leaky alkaline batteries - should I be worried?

    If its the powder leakage it will be ok an should not harm other things so long as you dont get this powder wet. Its a shame about your flashlight though all the same, some can be saved an some cant sadly.
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    6V lantern battery hack with a difference, look whats inside, NOT AA cells.

    Ok following on from another thread i thought i would share this, Most if not all lantern batteries contain four large round F cells in series, well this Air Alkaline battery has four tray cells. the plastic trays contain the mananease dioxide. This battery was dead an started to leak. It came...
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