Nostalgic flashlight, #2

[The_LED_Museum]

A flashlight I vividly remember was the Eveready Big Jim, made sometime in the early 1970s. It had a large sealed beam main lamp, and a blinking red tail lamp. There were rubber covered pushbuttons for both the main lamp and the tail lamp. It was made predominantly of shiny chrome plated metal (steel?). And it screwed onto a large, rectangular 6 volt battery.

The main lamp was a sealed beam job, not too dissimilar from a downsized version of a car headlamp. And the tail lamp was a self-flashing blub with one of those bimetal things inside. It was inside a red plastic cylindrical lens, mounted to the end of a stalk that was affixed to the lantern's handle.

This picture was something I found on my HD.

 

[Beretta1526]

I used to use those to hunt night crawlers in the summer time. I'm pretty sure my mom has one and my aunt (great aunt) has 2 or 3 of them. They run for quite a while on that big battery, and the brightness/flood is pretty good.

 

[Charles Bradshaw]

We had one similar to that (no tail light). Used a big 6 volt battery. It worked for over 40 years, and was still working when dad sold the family farm (went with it, along with most of the tools). They were sealed beam lights. Rugged and extremely reliable.

 

[GlockDoc]

I remember that my grandad had one of those. He was a carpenter before WWII and I remember he had two big chests with all his tools in 'em. Brace and bits, hand saws and planes of several different sizes, hammers; all the tools you would need to build anything with OUT electricity. He died while I was in VietNam and my mom and aunt sold all that stuff in a garage sale for pennies! I sure wish they would have kept just one of those chests for me.

 

[Tweek]

Heh, I used to have one of those when I was about 6 (I think), Grandpa gave it to me one summer when we were up visiting. I had another one of the same style too, but it was plastic, and had a D-cell brick adapter that you could use instead of the lantern batteries... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Chris

 

[Sway]

Yes, I recall seeing that light as a kid it’s called an Everready Captain made by Union Carbide. I still have one of the GE sealed beam bulbs from a later model made in the early 70’s that used the flat 6V battery, don’t recall what the battery part number was.

Craig that brings back many fond memories from my teen years when I use to coon hunt at night chasing a pack of hounds through the woods with a 6V wet cell motorcycle battery strapped to my belt with the sealed beam from a Captain in a chrome hand held spot light like the police used then. I later modified the spotlight by putting a rheostat in it (stereo volume control) to turn the light up or down and added what we called then a hat light bolted onto my head gear. Guess I must have been a sight in rubber knee boots, an old Army field jacket head gear and a big shinny spot light hand out of my pocket. He He that was fun /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Later
Sway