<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Mike Harrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cluon@geeklabs.com" target="_blank">cluon@geeklabs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Scott Plante wrote:<br>
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Just a thought to throw out there--you wrote: "I'm going to stick with my old reliable proven technology for now"--have you<br>
considered supplementing with oil or kerosene lanterns? I'm with you on the LEDs for flashlights you carry around, but you never<br>
have to worry about oil discharging (like batteries) in the cabinet and the light is quite nice. Warm light, yet bright enough to<br>
read from, and many, many hours of light are easy to store pretty much indefinitely.<br>
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I have a flashlight fetish, I admit it. I must own 20+?<br>
They are in my camper, truck, each car.. several in my house.. All of my caving lights.. Almost all are now LED source...<br>
Even my huge "club", a 4D cell maglight by the bed is LED.<br>
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and yet, you make a point and it's why in my "Zombie Apocolypse Kit"<br>
in the garage is a large really nice multifuel solid brass german (I can't spell the brand) industrial-ish lantern with spare wicks and 2 gallons of white gas. It'll also run gasoline, kerosene and I'm told with a little mod-kit, even diesel (heavy parafin?).<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Only 2 gal?!?!? I've got 6 :-) ZA gonna last a while... add in the coleman lantern and stove...</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I've used it exactly one time, when after the tornadoes that hit the area<br>
we had 6 days without juice and a pot of chili was slow cooked with a rigged up pot bracket over it.<br>
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I also store some lamp oil and lamps for the same reason.<br>
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Pretty useful, and worth remembering how well that thing works.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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