I love reading, gaming, collecting and repairing old electronics and appliances, tabletop gaming, and flashlights

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Goodwill is particularly bad about this. You can almost never find cool stuff in the stores anymore. It’s all siphoned off for ShopGoodwill.

    It was definitely one of my luckiest finds, but I think another part of it was that it was a pay by weight bin outlet. A St. Vincent De Paul in my case. Stuff isn’t individually priced and you weigh your items on a scale when you check out and pay by the pound. It’s usually very cheap because mine has a maximum of $5.00 per item so even heavy things like typewriters have been cheap.

    I much prefer bin outlets because of this.











  • I got a green one too from the 60s. This red one is from the 50s.

    I rebuilt the red one and did the exhaust putty mod on the fuel/air mix tube so it wouldn’t smell during use.

    Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten the new valve stem to stop leaking yet.

    Coleman fuel is closer to naptha or gasoline without additives. Kerosene isn’t voltatile enough so it would be hard to start. They did make models that ran on kerosene, but they had a preheater cup at the bottom of the generator tube that you’d fill with alcohol and light to preheat the generator to help the kerosene evaporate.