Another classic light. This time a "Vietnam era" Fulton angle head light.
This one goes out to all who served in that awful era when our government was too worried about political BS and did not GIVE A DAM about all those brave soldiers fighting THEIR war.
Thank you for your service.
As a lad Vietnam was on tv at 6:30 while we ate supper and my pop would pound the dinner table shouting "liar!" at whatever garbage was spewing from the mouth of Walter Kronkite. He'd shout things like "our boys are being killed and this fool is calling them murders!" and stuff like that.
Meanwhile the guy with the vette down the street was never the same, the guy 2 blocks away was killed by friendly fire and my brother was on the list to be drafted. He got a letter one day...same day Nixon said "ENOUGH!" Phew, that was close.
Not long after that ole Walter was focusing on Nixon himself and dinner time was fairly enjoyable.
A moment of silence please for all the fallen, mamed and missing...
Ok...the Fulton;
The upgrade to the fabled TL-122 A to D series of WW II was the MX99/U. They were made largely by Fulton. But a company called GT Price made some. From what I've read soldiers prefered the GT Price beam.
At one point Fulton came up with a switch guard which was simply a pair of raised areas beside the switch that prevented accidental acivation of the on/momentary switch system. The 991
See the rails?
This is a (for the time) a good, watertight light that used rubber gaskets. Today we call them o-rings.
Double o-ring here.
Tailcap used a gasket.
Speaking of tailcap, it is a split system that used one part to hold a spare bulb and the other to house filters. Filter colors and quantities apparently varied as time moved forward going from a red, blue, and white to a kit of 5 which included a map reader diffuser and a spare clear.
Spare bulb compartment
Spare lens storage area arrived empty. I'll get some at some point. Fulton still makes some.
The one I got was in pretty dawg gone good shape. I'd say not much combat (if any) was seen with this one. Either that or the soldier kept it as well as his weapon.
Inside never saw a leaking DA40. (We call them D cells today)
Looks like new inside. Nearly new outside.
Minor nicks here n there.
The nail hook looks like it was never used.
The lens showed some scratches, but they are minor like it was dusty and a PO used a tshirt to dry wipe it.
I'll polish the reflector at some point for max output.
The belt clip shows it has been used, but well cared for.
Well after a bit of getting to know this light and doing some reading about it the time came to see just how well it works. This light was built to be a thrower. And I suppose at the time it did that well.
But instead of wasting the 1965-67 bulb just to be bummed I threw in a Mag White Star.
Glad I did. USA! USA!
Awe yeah! Glad I did.
At about 100' it aint bad.
My "halt who goes there" pic behind the neighbors garage about 125' away.
These things are a pretty cool piece of history that are still being made today...and they said the 6P was the benchmark...
Again, thanks for looking.
This one goes out to all who served in that awful era when our government was too worried about political BS and did not GIVE A DAM about all those brave soldiers fighting THEIR war.
Thank you for your service.
As a lad Vietnam was on tv at 6:30 while we ate supper and my pop would pound the dinner table shouting "liar!" at whatever garbage was spewing from the mouth of Walter Kronkite. He'd shout things like "our boys are being killed and this fool is calling them murders!" and stuff like that.
Meanwhile the guy with the vette down the street was never the same, the guy 2 blocks away was killed by friendly fire and my brother was on the list to be drafted. He got a letter one day...same day Nixon said "ENOUGH!" Phew, that was close.
Not long after that ole Walter was focusing on Nixon himself and dinner time was fairly enjoyable.
A moment of silence please for all the fallen, mamed and missing...
Ok...the Fulton;
The upgrade to the fabled TL-122 A to D series of WW II was the MX99/U. They were made largely by Fulton. But a company called GT Price made some. From what I've read soldiers prefered the GT Price beam.
At one point Fulton came up with a switch guard which was simply a pair of raised areas beside the switch that prevented accidental acivation of the on/momentary switch system. The 991
See the rails?
This is a (for the time) a good, watertight light that used rubber gaskets. Today we call them o-rings.
Double o-ring here.
Tailcap used a gasket.
Speaking of tailcap, it is a split system that used one part to hold a spare bulb and the other to house filters. Filter colors and quantities apparently varied as time moved forward going from a red, blue, and white to a kit of 5 which included a map reader diffuser and a spare clear.
Spare bulb compartment
Spare lens storage area arrived empty. I'll get some at some point. Fulton still makes some.
The one I got was in pretty dawg gone good shape. I'd say not much combat (if any) was seen with this one. Either that or the soldier kept it as well as his weapon.
Inside never saw a leaking DA40. (We call them D cells today)
Looks like new inside. Nearly new outside.
Minor nicks here n there.
The nail hook looks like it was never used.
The lens showed some scratches, but they are minor like it was dusty and a PO used a tshirt to dry wipe it.
I'll polish the reflector at some point for max output.
The belt clip shows it has been used, but well cared for.
Well after a bit of getting to know this light and doing some reading about it the time came to see just how well it works. This light was built to be a thrower. And I suppose at the time it did that well.
But instead of wasting the 1965-67 bulb just to be bummed I threw in a Mag White Star.
Glad I did. USA! USA!
Awe yeah! Glad I did.
At about 100' it aint bad.
My "halt who goes there" pic behind the neighbors garage about 125' away.
These things are a pretty cool piece of history that are still being made today...and they said the 6P was the benchmark...
Again, thanks for looking.
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