Doug, that E-tool looks just like the ones made today, BUT, the carrier is definitely old, Korea to Vietnam. The new carriers are plastic. That canvas one having the lower end open might have been for the old wood handle E-tool.
E-tool sounded like something microsoft would be marketing at first, Jake---LOL! Got to remember that I was 4-f when the draft was going and never did any military service! Still don't know why it would be called an E-tool. Sorry I'm a dum@$$!
This must be what you were referring to. I doubt the shovel was an actual military item, and my mom put a new handle in it probably 50 years ago or more. She carried it in her truck in case of emergency. Maybe that's what the "E" means? It does fit like you described.
That’s a bench vise that gets mounted under the edge of your bench. I circled the mounting flanges. Be careful when you torque them down the cast iron can snap. That’s a lot of nice stuff. Those work irons will last for ever. I bought a spud bar at that auction for .50 because no body wanted it. It was in a barrel along with four other bars. The auctioneer never bothered with the others which I wanted too. At the end when I picked up my bar he asked me how do you use it. When I told him he said just take the others too. One of them now is so heavy I drag it instead of carrying it. Lol
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I figured that was the mount but it never occurred to me it mounts UNDER a tabletop! Dum@$$ again---LOL! I don't have a table it would work on.
Sure understand why no one would want those bars, that means they might have to actually use them! I'm thinking about donating them to the Black Hills Mining Museum in Lead, SD. Isn't it weird how stuff like this gets heavier as time goes by?
It is surprising that those lanterns held pressure through the years. Once that seal is broken probably won't seal again. Both would need rebuilt to be functional. The 220J was made from 1975 to 1978 and is a liquid fuel lantern. The 5114 was made from 1973 to 1985 and is a propane fuel lantern.
That stoved would have been well worth bringing home with you also. Fairly high demand for those in working condition.
I probably have all the parts needed to rebuild a few of those old lanterns. Lot of aftermarket parts can be found on line also but I try to stay with the Coleman originals.
That's great information, Roger! I think the stove I left up there is the one with the wire legs that fold down. I never even opened it. One corner had some pretty bad rust where it had been sitting in the dirt. Don't think it was rusted clear through though.
I guess you are the man to identify the lantern and stove we still use occasionally.
The stove is model 425E
The lantern is model 228E.
The last time we camped has been years I still have three of the old lanterns that used the white gas. I have two of the silver ones that takes unleaded gas. I have the stoves also one large and one small one.
Pretty cool how that white gas never goes bad! The can I use is at least 25 years old! Goes to show how little we use that stuff anymore!
Have several of the different models of the green lanterns. A near new 259 Chrome) that takes the unleaded gas. A 220 that was new in box but the box was trash unfortunately. Small red lantern. An LED battery powered red dual tube we keep charged up just in case. Has CHIEFS on the globe and the arrowhead on the base. Gave the kids on for Christmas last year. Custom made as not availed online. Have the 2 burner stove with the pull-down wire legs that has been rebuilt and test burned only. One of the green lanterns has the storage base that clamps under the fuel tank so storage of a wrench, extra mantels, etc. Have a tote full of the straight clear glass globes. Some if not all are Coleman branded. Lot of fun gather up these old relics and returning them to full operation again.
Mom and Dad bought a brand new '58 Ford wagon with a Coleman camping package. It had an umbrella tent, cots, sleeping bags, utensils, the red lanterns, can't remember if they were single or dual mantle, a fold out table and a 3 or 4 burner stove. There was more stuff too but can't remember any more. They didn't like the car and traded it in late '59 for a GMC Suburban. Still had the camping stuff until a flood in '72. Found the table and the stove. They got shoved under the new trailer house until 2006 and I scrapped them when that old trailer house got replaced. They were beyond repair I think.
I got the storage plan done today even in the near 100* heat. I'm pretty beat!
Opened up a plastic shed and pulled out junk and an old lawn tractor. Put air in the tires and shoved it over to the overhead door. Just used a two wheel cart that folds out to be a 4 wheeler to move stuff from in the shop.
I built a table in there and was able to put the big survival tote under it on that creeper. Then I put more junk on the table. It was so hot I didn't get a after picture.
That little 8HP MTD LT and I go way back to about 1980 or '81. Can't remember any more. It was old then when I got it from another uncle, Bill. I always called this tractor Uncle Bill. I mowed with it until 2005 or 2006. Then I got that Murray that I recently determined to be scrap. It was in mid 2011 when I got the MF12G and found out that tractors are actually considered cool and collectable! I had the MF8E since around 1990 also but all it could do is push snow and gravel.
This is my avatar picture taken about 1995. Our daughter who is now 33 playing on it. The office in my shop wasn't done yet and the MF8E is in the background.
When I got the shed closed up the MTD got shoved into the shop after I raised the lift.
I had completely forgotten that there was a battery in it! I think the date numbers that are pulled out say Oct. 1989!
Fortunately, the inside of the gas tank looks clean! That engine had been rebuilt once in the years I owned it. Traded sign work for the overhaul.
I had to do it. Added some oil, hooked the booster up and it turned over well using the key. Gave it some ether and it fired up right away! That's far as I got. The lift room had gotten up to 85F and it was time to go to the office and cool off and come on to this site.
Don't know what I will do with that thing yet, but will probably get it running on gas and see if it still moves.
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