That's really cool to know that. I was not even aware that they were still in production. With little effort this one would be quite serviceable. Thank you for the additional input !!

@@tractorman4461 I would think the Rego company would be the one selling them.

AWESOME comment Andrew, thank you for expanding on the subject !! My Much Older Brother is 83 and still working on the old tractors. He and I have been hauling them home out of fence rows, fallen buildings and woods for many years as well. We both have traded work for dead tractors over the years. Gotta save the old stuff for the future generations. So much of the good stuff from our farm went to the war effort in WW2. Thanks again for the cool comment and I hope to see you hang around a little here and there !! By the way, neither he nor I have ever used one of these acetylene generators.

You are quite welcome sir. I was over there delivering some tractor parts and he rolled this out of the back and suggested doing a short video on it. Super glad to hear you enjoyed it. I wonder if Guy has ever seen or used one of these...?? The two of us have not.

The only time I've seen one before was THIS one in another shed stuck behind a couple old tractors. This is the first time I ever got the chance to mess around with it. Was a bit interesting though, just like you said. Thanks for watching and commenting !!

Hahahaha...now that was kinda 'punny'....funny too btw. I was hoping you'd chime in. I saw a more lengthy reply down below and can't wait to see what you've got to say.

Well I might have butchered it a little bit....but it's all I had. LOL. Thanks for stopping by and taking a quick look..it is appreciated !!

Thanks for the comment....its all about the normal evolution of mechanical devices. Without these first generation acetylene generators, we wouldn't have progressed to plasma torches of today. Without the Model T automobile and the continual improvements we wouldn't be on the advent of autonomous vehicles today !! (-:

Dang..David I KNOW I replied to you earlier this morning.... but I think I pondered aloud wondering just WHO that might have been about whom you are talking.....and maybe you could vouch for the decible level by having been there in person. LOL At least it was something like that. I wonder what happened to my comment !!?? Btw... I've never heard of a carbide lantern.

Never heard of a carbide lantern. Did you just skip American history and science classes to play football or something just as useless that defeats the purpose of school?

@@Col_Eddington brilliant!

They are certainly a rarity this day and time, you were lucky to have found one !! Hopefully its not too brutalized being tossed in a dump. I am sure some of the welding supply distributors would love to have one for display in their showroom. Good luck with what ever you do with yours !! Thanks for watching and commenting.

Tractorman44 she’s a beauty! It came with the cart. Torch and gauges original hoses. I’m an ironworker so she’s staying with me. If I can find a bit more safety info on it I’ll probably put it back in use👍 just around the acreage though. I imagined I’d get kicked off any job site quite fast if I showed up with it lol. Take good care friend n keep collecting the good stuff👍

It would be great if you would report on the carbide feed mechanism.

They are uncommon. This is the only one I've ever seen. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching.

Sure is something you don't see everyday !! Thanks for taking a look.

Great addition to the use of calcium carbide Dave !! I certainly didn't know that before. See there my much younger Canadian friend....you CAN teach an old dog new tricks !! Thanks for the awesome comment mon ami.

@@tractorman4461 LOL, You make laugh so much Sir !!! NO, Your Not what you are Saying, you are a great experience man !!! Have a Great week Sir Cheers !!!

@@tractorman4461 Thomas Leopold Willson, a Canadian born entrepenuer, accidentally invented the process to make calcium carbide, sparking a world wide advance in industry. He did it in the U. S, but was Canadian born.

@@stevenbasnett881 Now THAT is an interesting tidbit of information. I got the pun in 'sparking'...whether it was intended or not. LOL Thanks Steven for chiming in with a little Canadian lore.

Heck yeah man....its easy to make stuff go ka-boom !! It's controlling that potential that makes it tricky....LOL. Thanks Martin for taking a look and I'm glad to have tweaked your interest again.

You know by golly...there IS just a little similarity with just a passing glance. LOL. Good point !! Thanks for tossing that into the ring and thanks for stopping in for a visit !!

Well...I'm glad you enjoyed taking a look at the old thing. We do seem to have a few relics around.... Hahahahaha....thanks for the comment. Oh hey, he has the old 171 McCullough as well as the old handlebar two man Mall saw in his shed too !!

Would your brother consider showing those saws on a video?

Well David I'm sure there's much more to the story. I just hit the high spots and probably am not 'spot on' with all that was presented. But basically add water and the gas is created. That's how the carbide lanterns and lights on the buggies and first cars lit the way. He and I both have some brass carbide lanterns hanging around.

It sure is a little unconventional by today's standards. Ain't everybody got one of those in the back of the shed..... Thanks cowpen for stopping by and taking a look.

Though I am reasonably sure it would work with just a little maintenance and new hoses/mixer I think we are going to keep it for a talking point. Of course if acetylene continues getting more and more expensive.....we HAVE an option. LOL The carbide would kill us though costwise. Thanks Bob for chiming in with a response.

THAT was totally interesting. I know nothing to very little about the aluminum or steel smelting process nor what maintenance is required to keep everything up and running. But we do have a recently closed lead smelter two towns north of here. Through my last contractor I took care of a lot of the a/c's for the office spaces all over the plant...the worst being the one for the blast furnace or the one for the sinter plant. Miserable conditions to work in !! Oh see....? I get to rambling too..... The point of that story was I did get a few firebricks that had either melted or burnt off their ends, their firebrick materials turned shades of green and hard as a rock !! On side note I have never heard of a oxygen lance....what the heck is THAT..??

@@tractorman4461 You can spend as much as you want on one. bakersgas.com/products/arcairsliceutilitypack-63991047?variant=28852577566773&campaign=9414230862&adgroup=94697287839&feeditem=&keyword=&matchtype=&device=c&network=u&gclid=CjwKCAiAt9z-BRBCEiwA_bWv-MdLh6ulVtRhGkGEFFnNoUY6NtjLqi1kuymo0PtFq13aneWT-_pfdxoCWK8QAvD_BwE&creative=419433943578ad.atdmt.com/s/go;adv=11242241809840;ec=11242241809912;c.a=9414230862;s.a=google;p.a=9414230862;as.a=94697287839;qpb=1;?bidkw=&dvc=c&h=bakersgas.com/products/arcairsliceutilitypack-63991047%3Fvariant%3D28852577566773&gclid=CjwKCAiAt9z-BRBCEiwA_bWv-MdLh6ulVtRhGkGEFFnNoUY6NtjLqi1kuymo0PtFq13aneWT-_pfdxoCWK8QAvD_BwE This one is $1296.00 + along with shipping, hose, tanks, regulators and gas you might get by with $2000.00. UTC had a rig that was two T bottles, about 600 cu ft of oxygen, a manifold, an oxygen regulator, one anti-burn back check valve, 50 ft. of single hose that soon burned back to 25 before being replaced, a 1/2" ball valve with a 1/2" to 1/4" reducing bushing on the downflow side of the ball valve, and a 10 foot chunk of 1/4" iron pipe that was screwed into the bushing and is the working end of the rig. You heat the open end of the pipe until it sparks with a acetylene torch then turn on the oxygen with about 20 psi and let it go. Whatever was on the end of the pipe either caught fire or melted. The torch will burn through iron plate, firebrick, and even the aluminum oxide dross that is the base material for most firebrick. We could buy special 1/4" pipe lance tips but they were just tubing packed full of iron wire. They burned a little longer but no hotter. They cost an arm and a leg too. Don't remember how much but I never bought any. I just stocked 1/4" pipe. Jack Davis was my furnace tender. He put on a silver fireproof suit and the torch would last a couple minutes before it was gone and Jack needed to back off away from the heat. Like standing in front of a roman candle. Burning iron, molten aluminum, molten firebrick flying all over. We only had to use them a few times but I clearly remember thinking I didn't want to be the guy in the suit.

@@OldSneelock well I can tell by the prices that probably no time in the near future will that purchase be made.....hahahahahaha. I do enjoy the thoughts and things that come outta your mind. Whew !! I can add nothing to your contribution. I do appreciate the time you take with the details of the explanations. Very good information filled comment my friend.

@@tractorman4461 Always happy to go back and remember the good times. Most of those were afterwards when we congratulated ourselves for surviving another one. 😁😎

When the lose a Pour at the steel mill. They cut that mess up with a oxygen Lance . No fuel needed just hot metal and oxygen.

Yessir...its the same principle Peter, just a much smaller version. Thanks for chiming in my friend.

I don't have that good fortune...these were popular before my time. I'm just glad my brother is lucky enough to have one that's very easily put back into service !!

Hahahaha...Chris...now THAT would make a good video whether it worked as designed or not. I think we will wait until the 4th of July in case we do something that will make ten pounds of tannerite sound like a firecracker !! LOL

@@tractorman4461 if you do so... please use a long torch hose! And have a fox hole on the ready!

@@thesmallwoodlot433 Just in case....a foxhole....man that's funny. Appropriate though. LOL

@@tractorman4461 I say that for a reason... have you ever seen a propane tank explode, I have, and I was only 30’ from it! Looking back at my life I wonder... how in the heck did I survive!

Relic....wait....the fancy old tool or the old dude in the video...?? LOL. Hahahaha ...thanks for showing interest in something you've probably never even thought of.

Good story DaveyJO. Me and him both have a couple of the old brass carbide lanterns of different styles hanging here or there in the sheds. I think he's got one off an old truck that he converted to an electric bulb for his patio. Between me and you I bet calcium carbide is considered hazardous waste this day and time. Don't know that for sure about that and I guess I don't want to know. LOL. Them old timers could think up some pretty cool stuff couldn't they...!! Hope you are enjoying your morning coffee along with my fancy cuppa JO from the Missus. A good day to you ol' buddy !

Tractorman44 When I was a kid,,,,,,,,,,better said,,,,,,when I was younger cuz I'm still a JOdrinkin kid, you could buy a Bangsite cannon for a few bucks. You got a tube of cal. Carb. to go with it. The cannon was cast iron and the fuse was a lighter flint that would spark when you pushed a plunger. Water was in the bottom and a cap full of cal carbide was poured in. You twisted in the flint and letter rip and BOOM! We'd put marbles in the cannon or cotton balls that would come out fired up and anything else we could think of as a projectile. I'm sure many things like this were outlawed, taken all our fun away! So now we have to compensate with other cool stuff, eh! I raise me cup ole Pal! DaveyJO

@@tractorman4461 Just me and Ebay can find a bottle of Calcium Carbide Pellets for sale and delivered right to your home. www.ebay.com/i/324008048351?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=324008048351&targetid=935694488066&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9017333&poi=&campaignid=10460107185&mkgroupid=106723176147&rlsatarget=aud-622524042958:pla-935694488066&abcId=2146001&merchantid=6296724&gclid=CjwKCAiAt9z-BRBCEiwA_bWv-KEQpv6jE0cnHR7bb-hqdN9QFSlj_vWaFB4pP2C2clpuRachI7Ez3xoCDLQQAvD_BwE Don't know who else will be calling but if you want it you better order before Beto thinks it looks like it has a dangerous looking hand grip or something. What a world. What a world.

@@OldSneelock hahahaha....Beto.....that's funny. LOL. I am really surprised that those can be purchased retail....and boy o boy 'what a world' says it all doesn't it !!?? Thanks for the search...I didn't even think to look.

Heck yeah John. We kinda like the old stuff too as you can tell by our shops...LOL. Thanks for watching.

I know !! Isn't it ridiculous to have to pay those prices !! I now use a plasma torch whenever I can and may consider going to a propane/oxygen set up. Thanks veegee for the comment !

If you do decide to try one, they can be very dangerous. More maintanice on them than a cylinder of acetylene. If it does have a problem it can kill you.

I wish you luck. I think they are probably in short supply. This is the only one I’ve seen. But it is in very good condition. With new hoses and a torch head I think it’d be ready to go with just the most minor of maintenance. Btw... was DB’s package ever found ? I remember a TV special from years ago about him.

@@tractorman4461 Thanks for the reply. I see a few online. one just sold on Offerup completely restored that was 5 miles from my home. that's what started my venture seeing it and figuring out what it was. DB? he's still a mystery. I've been researching the case for about 10 years. nothing has surfaced since part of the money was found in 1980. we have done testing on the money getting us closer to how it got on the river bank. lots of myths to weed through getting to the truth.

@@thedbcooperforum Interesting about DB. I can't imagine how difficult it is finding additional information on his story. Still, I hope you find a repairable generator.

Now I gotta tell you, that is something about which I know nothing !! This is what is so cool about doing youtube videos though. I find so many guys like yourself that have some tremendous knowledge about the most obscure topics !! I've always wanted to make one of those blast furnaces, but I've got an old forge that'll probably do anything I need to do. I just have to find the coal for it.

Whew !! John, I'm afraid that'd be a bit over my head. Isn't it crazy but it seems the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know. Thanks for the thought provoking comment.

That would be cool to build one for yourself...I'm not sure I have that technical savvy though. Thanks for watching.

Not ever having used it or even seen it is use, I don't have full understanding of how it works. If I had more time to fiddle with it I would repair the hoses and give it a go....but I would do it outside in the fresh air though. Acetylene is getting expensive here as well. Many of us are going to propane/acetylene torches and many others are using plasma torches....but I still pay the price and use acetylene for my shop. Thanks for the comment. I do enjoy learning about the old equipment.

You know I'm not so sure the alchemists of old didn't have a bit of an idea. Maybe not for the development of actual acetylene, but surely of explosive mixtures if not on purpose possibly on accident. Without written history its hard to document anything though. Interesting thought though.

Methinks you give me way too much credit....I figure though that if you add a dollar to my knowledge and ability the lady at McDonalds will give me a senior cup of coffee !! Thank you for the early morning smile....(-:

Well Mike I've found that sometimes its best to let sleeping dogs lie....LOL. It would be a cool thing to (like Charlie Daniels said) ...fire that mother up, but I really wouldn't want to without trying to learn a bit more about its operation. Thanks my friend for stopping by for a visit !

Dangerous...?? Naw....OSHA approved stickers were probably just hard to see....LOL Could give a whole new meaning to the term 'hothead'....

This is the closest I got right now: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iN5xoK18sareXWw.html But if there's a way to sneak something similar to what you want into the next job I'll do it. Thanks Zach for the comment and for watching...Aren't you glad we don't need to pack one of these rigs in the service trucks today ?? LOL.

Tractor Man........Your something else.....so much to do, and still have time to upload videos, and reply to comments! That video is it, I must of missed it. Thank you for taking the time and doing these videos, it really helps a lot of people.

@@zachm7966 Well good....I've never been one to 'hoard' the things I've learned. I worked with too many old guys when I was a rookie that wouldn't share knowledge for anything. I always though that was the wrong thing to do. Thank you Zack, for the nice comment.

The feed and pressure are automatic and maintain the gas pressure by adjusting the big thumbscrew on top

Yeah, I figured calcium carbide would probably have become a controlled substance by this day and time. I do believe you are 100% correct about this generator still able to go to work. I would want to know a bit more for sure before an attempt would be made. Depending on the material the diaphragm is made out of, my main concern would be a bit of internal damage....dry rot...or a rupture of some sort. Thanks Chris for the input concerning your first hand experience. I was HOPING there'd be at least one viewer that would chime in. So thank you again for stopping by !!

Yes, I caught it and corrected it later as you said. I actually thought I'd edited the earlier incorrect mention before uploading the video. Thanks for the candid comment. I appreciate it because I really try to be reasonably accurate with what few facts I know. Sometimes though things slip through. Very good comment !! Thank you.

@@tractorman4461 Any time! And you aren't the only one, I aspire to be as accurate as I can be 😉 Another potentially interesting bit of trivia; Acetylene doesn't need oxygen to burn and will spontaneously combust at 15psi, thats why such generators were considered safe since they operate at very low pressures, and acetylene tanks have a spongy/honeycombe core which increases the surface area of the tank, reducing the active pressure of the gas stored, thus reducing the risk of spontaneous ignition to much safer levels

I will find them for sure Tom. Thanks a lot buddy.

I don't really know the connection between acetone and acetylene or if there is one. The ladies use acetone in a bottle with a cotton ball to remove their fingernail polish. I think there's an absorbent material in the bottom of the acetylene tanks that remain saturated with the liquified acetylene. The gas rises to the top to enter the regulator. Laying a tank on its side disrupts the absorbent material and allows liquid to escape into the regulator potentially damaging the internals. If you lay one on its side without a regulator then crack the valve you will see spurts of liquid....not cool. LOL. And as we all know acetylene becomes very unstable above 15 psi....and I don't want to find out firsthand !! Thanks Dave for stopping by and taking a look at the old thing. It is a candidate for a museum for sure...or a display at a welding suppliers showroom.

I will jump in with what little scary stuff I know about Acetylene tanks and storage. The tanks are filled with absorbent material just like T-44 said. In the old days it was Kapok like life preservers use to be. Might be anything these days. Coming from the far east as they might it could be bamboo leaves. Anyway the kapok was there to increase the surface area of the acetone that the tank was filled with. Acetylene dissolves into acetone line CO2 into water. When the pressure in the tank drops the acetylene boils out of the acetone. If the acetylene is drawn off the tank too fast the acetone gets carried into the regulator causing problems of the boom BOOM kind. If you lay the tank down the acetone migrates to one side of the tank leaving way too much surface area exposed for the acetylene to boil out of the acetone. Once again boom BOOM. Now you will run into people who will say that is all a bunch of hooie and that they have vented tanks wide open with no problems. Don't go drinking with that fool. They are the guys who want to bet you that a match burns twice. I still have the scar on my thumb. Store your tanks upright and chain them securely. If you have to lay them down. First off don't. If you still think you have to then when you get where you are going stand them up chain them off and wait a day before using them. Old guy story: Back in the good old days when there were shop classes where you learned things and not always the right things but interesting never the less, my shop teacher was Mr Stankey. Great guy and built like a truck. If he said sit down and shut up you didn't even think about looking for a chair you went on your butt where you were. Mr Stankey was going to teach use about the safe use of an acetylene torch. He had some dimestore balloons. He filled the first with oxygen until it was about 4" in diameter. He tied it off and asked what we thought would happen if he lit it on fire. One of the smarter guys in the back said it would pop. Mr. Stankey pulled out his lighter. Everyone, but me, smoked back then. He laid the balloon on the welding bench and lit it. It popped. No boom just normal balloon popping. Then he did the same with a balloon full of acetylene. It popped and sent up a puff of black smoke. Little tendrils of soot floated out of the air, but no big deal. Then he lit the torch set it to burn correctly and shut off the tanks. He put the balloon over the end of the torch tip and turned the tanks back on. He filled it just about the same size as the oxygen and the acetylene balloons had been. Then he lit it. It blew three bricks out of the welding bench and onto the floor. Don't try this at home. Especially not where you will be noticed doing it. It is considered an explosive device and you might just end up on the wrong side of Homeland Security. Just think about the idea that the balloon had maybe 1/8 of a cubic foot of oxy/acetylene in it. The big T bottles most commercial cutting rigs have hold 300 to 330 cu ft of oxygen. The acetylene tanks last longer than oxygen tanks in use because oxygen burns a stochiometric ratio of 2.5 to 1 with acetylene. That is when the flame is burning at its hottest and the acetylene gets all the oxygen it needs for a complete burn. Since the oxygen is also used to burn the iron with a cutting torch you go through oxygen about 2 to one compared to acetylene. That explains why there is a bigger oxygen tank than acetylene. Also the rig is heavy enough. Why carry stuff you don't need. Some journeymen should be reminded of that. The apprentice has to lug the tanks up and down where ever they need to go. Now we went a long way around the barn. If some idiot manages to set off a oxygen/acetylene rig carrying 140 cu ft of acetylene instead of blowing 3 brinks out of a welding bench it will do 8 times 140 times 3 bricks. Roughly 3360. That's if the bricks are laying flat under the explosion and not stacked up around it or over it. Let's just say be careful. You might be within a couple hundred feet of me. BOOM BOOM!

@@OldSneelock interesting story on the shop teacher. they would be arrested if they did that these days. lol I was not sure where the acetone came from but like you said its there and it can be a major boom! I dont lay that tank down anymore.

@@daveknowshow We may be safer in some ways. I think the trade off into a fear culture isn't worth it. Just my thinking.

@@OldSneelock man I liked the shop teacher story... A cousin of mine working midnights put just enough acetylene from his torch into a small trashbag to get it to float. He zip tied it shut with about a three foot piece of toilet paper hanging down. Standing on the dock at 2 a.m. he lit the TP and pushed it out the door. I don't know how high it got, but the explosion set off virtually car alarm within the industrial complex and brought cops from three surrounding districts in a matter of minutes !! Of course nobody knew anything about what the H--- that was !! LOL Yep, he would've made a good shop teacher. And of course maybe even I was guilty of the upside down styrofoam cup on the jobsite trick on a co-worker.... Blow about half a second's worth of acetylene under the cup, then when your buddy fires his torch, you wipe across the cup with a wide sweeping arc of your own torch. The good ones are when you catch 'em with their goggles already pulled down and they don't catch you in the act. LOL. Mind you I said 'might' have been guilty......

Ok Tom, I will look them up and take a look. I can tell you they must be pretty cool or you wouldn't recommend them. Thanks for the heads--up !!

There's a twist lock opening on the top of the glass carbide container for filling with the carbide powder. The glass is not under pressure so the carbide can be added at any time. Then the bottom of the glass container is sealed from the chamber that produces the acetylene gas vapor. If you skip to 3:50 you'll see how a shot of the carbide powder is admitted to the sealed chamber below by lifting a release handle once or twice. Now bear in mind, neither of us have ever used this generator and what was presented here was deduced from just fiddling with it that morning. I am sure the old timers knew from experience how long the generation cycle was going to work depending on how many times they added a shot of carbide. The vapor pressure then is allowed to escape through the regulator and to the torch being used in conjunction with oxygen from the replaceable tank that mounts on the rear of the generator between the handle bars. The delivered pressure cannot be allowed above 15 psi because it is extremely unstable above that pressure. Most torches consume 7 - 10 psi of acetylene delivery. Thanks Mary for watching and commenting with a thought provoking question.

@@tractorman4461 OK, What size lumps is the calcium carbide left in the chamber? Next, when the first carbide is loaded into the water and used by the torch, how are the lumps moved from zero pressure into tank pressure with the acetylene escaping?

@@marynollaig4124 the carbide isn’t lumpy at all. As noted above it’s just a powder. A bit grainy similar to corn meal but more fine in consistency. Not ever using it, most of this is conjecture…. But the powder is metered into the chamber by pumping that handle at 3:50. I assume there is a metering chamber that’s attached to the lever and sealed from the pressure vessel. As the gasketed chamber is rotated it aligns with an opening in the top of the pressure tank and the heavier powder drops into the pressure chamber to add to the weakening mixture. Again this is just a guess as to how that is accomplished. They may have to let the outlet pressure drop to a low and unusable pressure then vent it before adding another charge. I just do not know for sure. Somewhere I am sure there is an instruction manual on these old generators. We just don’t have access to it. Do you have any specific or additional information of these ? And if I may ask, why are you showing such interest in this old thing. Might you be associated with a welding supplier or possibly a fabricator ? Thank you for your interest and I would also like to know for sure exactly how it all functioned.

There are two basic issues with generating oxygen for the bottles in my estimation. First is the compressor with the capability to produce the 2500 psi output to fill the tanks and secondly how to maintain the purity high enough to ensure a clean and efficient cut. Less than 99.5% can be an extreme detriment to the oxy/acetylene torch. It's essentially as pure as medical grade oxygen...and we know how important that is for surgery or for people on portable oxygen. I have never seen the process of generating and filling the tanks...but I would like to just for the heck of it. Thanks for the thought provoking question Ryan.

That's a good thought. I have virtually no experience with them at all. Thanks for the input and thanks for watching Duncan.

Thank you Richard for taking a look at the old thing. Your time is appreciated.

I like the way you do things and your way of getting things done . You are creative and hard working. You have a passion and those old tractors love you for keeping them alive. They are a part of you as long as they keep going so will you..

If I could talk my brother out of it I probably would too. It really only needs a few minor components gone over to make it function as it is with all the original decals and all.. They are all readable for the most part. We have a few carbide headlights off of early cars and trucks hanging in the shed too. All from our old home place. I think we have a couple carbide lanterns as well.

I tell you Steven, once you start watching videos of what innovations the guys in third world countries come up with you can just imagine what they could do if they had access to modern machinery in their home shops.

Honestly I don't know. But all that's needed is calcium carbide and water to create acetylene. I don't know how they could make it richer. It's got to be used at pressures below 15psi because of its instability above that pressure. But that's a good question.

Hahahahaha...Pat, you aren't the first to have noticed the shape association with a particular 'contraband' substance !!

So now is my next question... When are you going to fire it up?

@@tractorman4461 and you wonder why? Hahahaha

@@thesmallwoodlot433 The jury is still out on that one....It would be a fun time, but we have too many other fish to fry at the moment. He's rebuilding an engine and I'm tearing into a hydrostatic drive on a Kubota....plus some other things as well.

@@thesmallwoodlot433 with you my friend, and the history you've lived I can only imagine why...LOL. Thanks for watching man.

That's cool. This is the only one I've ever seen. We have several carbide lanterns though as well as one that was for horse drawn carriages back in the day.

Hahahaha....I thought that Cee Kay Welding Supply would love to have it for display in their main offices in the big city.