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Wester flyer light from the 50’s

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Price
280
Payment Terms
Paypal, cash
Location
Milwaukee
Zipcode
53215

Angelo

Look Ma, No Hands!
Western Flyer light from the 50’s I think it does work. Price: $300.

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Looks like it had a hole drilled in the backside for an extra battery source. Factory does not have that. Just works off the side switch and is self-contained w/2 D-cells
 
Looks like it had a hole drilled in the backside for an extra battery source. Factory does not have that. Just works off the side switch and is self-contained w/2 D-cells
There were two models , one self contained battery and this one that the wire went to another wire from the tank . The two wires plug together , this light is missing the little plug at end of the wire It’s original

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The inside looks really clean, because it hasn’t had batteries dying in it for the past 70 years. 😀

I’ve been working on a fair number of old lights lately and I want to point out one feature that is often overlooked. The reason there is a flexible tab behind the bulb in this lamp is to allow you to focus the beam by screwing it in and out in relationship to the reflector.


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They could have just used a standard fixed screw in lamp base but they included this flexible tab to allow for some adjustment of the beam’s focus.

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From a Delta Powerlite manual of the same era.
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