Carbide Lights for Hunting

bea175

bea175

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Does anyone still use the old carbide lights for night varmint hunting and coon hunting? They where the only lights we used in the 60's and they worked very well for us older coon and possum hunters. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
I havent seen a carbide light in i don't know when, but every new years and 4th of July, someone across they way has a Carbide Cannon..........

Shakes the windows when it goes off....un-real power.....for a few cents worth.......of Carbide

How about E-Bay??
 
I have two carbide lamps (Miners Head Lamp) that my father and I used to use to hunt coon when I was young... they worked for that but would not provide enough light for predator hunting. I still have the lamps but stopped using them years ago as could not locate any carbide. I keep them around for the fond memories.

For those of you whom are not familiar with these lamps... they have a reservor on the top that holds water... and a reservor on the bottom to put your carbide (Fuel) rocks into. There is a little dial on the top that when turned permits water to drip into the bottom reservor causing a reaction which creates a gas which is then diverted to a reflector which upon being lit creates a flame generating light. If anyone wants to see some pictures I will see what I can do about posting them.
 
Don't forget the sound of the gas feeding the flame... sounded like bacon frying. We used to go hunting in an 1950 Willy's Jeep... those were the good old days.

Here are some pictures:

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I worked in a welding shop when I was a kid. We had a carbide generator that produced acetylene. You had to very careful on the mixture, or you could end up on the moon. A buddy has a carbide light, but it doesn't put out enough light to do much, and really, why would you want to, with all the good lights out there? Last time he tried, he couldn't find any carbide either. Randy
 
We used the carbide lights mostly for walking and spotting eyes up in the big oaks and sweet gum trees. We keep our battery light or flashlight for shooting the coons out for the dogs if the tree couldn't be climbed and we could shake them out. The photo brings back old memories. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
I found 6 of those old carbide lamps in with my grandfathers stuff in the garage. And a few cans of carbide. I figured out how to use them, and used up the carbide night fishing when I was younger. Is there any sorce for the fuel now or are these just obsolete? They were neat and had a soft light for picking nightcrawlers at night, but for predator hunting I'd think that light was too soft.
 


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