Nice.
I still have this old Everedy lantern, from 1980-something. It has a fluorescent tube, spot, & SOS beacon selectable via the slider switch, & has a carrying/hanging strap. It takes 6*D cells.
I remember using it as a kid, during power outages & camping. :)
Wow, that’s a beast!
WOW!!! That pic brought back some memories… This was so my dad’s light back in the day. It was our definite go to light in power outages and storms. Always kept by his bedside just in case.
Now I’ll have to wait till morning to call him and ask if he just maybe still has that light tucked away some where…
Thanks for sharing!
I have that exact same wood-grain lantern, but i misplaced it years ago and still not able to find it.
I have one but with orange rather than woodgrain.
Looks like that was a popular model back then!
Here's another from the same era;
It takes 2*D cells, the red switch is momentary-on, & the black slide-switch is on/off.
It's also a zoomie, with the head moving in/out by twisting.
Wood grain texture? Wow, that’s really old fashion!
I can’t help but wonder how much of a monster this would be when modded to take LED’s and modern circuitry…
At first I didn’t notice buy when I read 6D cells and saw the keyboard it struck me that this light is massive!
I’ve had this one for maybe 40 years. One of my early mods was to convert it from 2xaa to 3xaaa nimh with an xre. I still have it and it still works though I might switch it to 2p14500. The solitaire was an early experiment in DIY fins. Drill press lathe of course. 
The only light of a brand worthy of mention that I had when young was the Duracell Durabeam. That boxy black-and-brown 2xAA one.
Here’s the disassembled look:
Lugged this around in my school backpack back when I was 10 or so. Used it so much that the latches to the side ended up too bent to hold the black shell around the main part, and the edges of the battery holder were white from material fatigue.
Even with all that plus a cracked reflector, it made for nice lighting (well, nice for back in the day) until the switch plate rusted beyond salvation, and that was the final nail in its coffin.
Wish we could have a revival of this model, only in LED with a textured reflector, and the assembly done in, if not aluminum, at least high-quality polymer.
Is there such a thing as flashlight resto-modding?
Do people take old lights and mod them with new tech?
I had one like this
It was lost in the yard, spent the winter buried in snow, and still working when found. Surprisingly the batteries didn’t leak and still had power. Long gone but not forgotten. I used it quite often catching nightcrawlers.
You can easily see it done to many oil lanterns. As far as old flashlights go, someone got one of those old bullseye-lens brass lights and re-worked it to fit a warm white LED. As an avid Call of Cthulhu roleplayer, I definitely approve. 
I had a couple of these about 30 years ago.
I remember very well my first camping lamp; I still have it.It used in 1980 to go from Rome to Paris, on a motorcycle, with my girlfriend.Still it works with 4xD cells.
I yearn for that time, past.
The flashlight of my youth! For the time, and for the money, a great buy. If we wanted more throw, we would buy those disposable square angle head lights. The whole light and battery were disposable, I think Garrity was the brand, firefighters had them on their helmets…
Those 2aa Duracell lights were the mainstay of many a nights lighting needs way back in the 80’s…
A remake would be cool, but in warm white, like an incandescent bulb…
I had several, a couple of stand out in my memory:
First, one of these Rayovac Workhorse 2D lights:
http://www.flashlightmuseum.com/Rayovac-Flashlight-2-Cell-Black-Plastic-Workhorse-with-1-Line-Logo-2C-1985
Surprised I found the second one! It was one of these little Dorcy 2xAA lights, with the yellow stripe on this side:
http://www.flashlightmuseum.com/Dorcy-Flashlight-Black-Plastic-with-Yellow-Trim-Mini-Light-2AA-1990
…or at least one very similar to that. I remember really being impressed with the amount of light coming from such a small flashlight at the time…
Yes! I’d forgotten all about these. We had one too.
Now this thread is moving, some great memories guy’s and girls - keep them coming
(unabashed bump)
Maybe one of our modder friends would accept this project…? 0:)
@ CRX,
Yes, I’d forgotten about those!
Thanks for the Memories.
Cheers,
Splott-Light