I love it when you have old things... because your new things are the same as everyone else's.... but your old things, from "behind the iron curtain" are very different from my old things and "different" is always interesting.
Who would have guessed that a 650 would fit in and work in that old but interesting flashlight. I am stunned that the housing is wood. What a unique item. Cheers from Canada.
I remember seeing a torch similar to that when I was younger. It also had a read button next to the sliding switch which I guess was for signalling as it turns on the torch when pressed continuously.
Hi! I am from Hungary! Medicor was a company that made medical electronics in our country. They made also a similar battery charger for Soviet /Russian Sokol radios in 70's. As far as I know the original one was transformerless, it was not accepted, so they made one with it and it was so big. Former European unearthed sockets were flat. They are not in use any longer. We have recessed ones with earthening contactors up and down.
Károly Varga well said 😊, I was born in Debrecen where a large Medicor firm was located. Devices from the small world of socialist economical commission (KGST or 'ComEcon in english) in this video 😀
I had a metal torch exactly like item number one. It used an old style, and now defunct, 3v 'Flashlight' battery. Those batteries were narrower than 'C' cells, and had a cardboard sleeve/shell. Dimensionally, almost that same as 18650, and no doubt it's predecessor. The white cylindrical device, item number 3; We had the UK version of that thing - Did you ever figure it out? - It's actually a nightlight adapter for a child's room. Ours also had a 12v output, but there was also a 6v version. One would use a 2W to 3W car panel light bulb. The other, used 6v radio dial lamp bulbs. These things seemed to appear toward the end of WW2, and were considered to be safer than a a candle, which could get knocked over and cause a fire. At 3W, the light was approximated to that of a standard domestic candle (1cp).
Fantastic video about mysterious old devices. 🔦 I got a flashlight very similar to the one at the beginning from a junk shop (in Switzerland). Mine has a glass made of silicate glass, not plastic, it must be quite old. The socket of the lightbulb broke, it was made of white plastic, I suspect it was cellulloid, which decomposed after decades. I made a new socket out of brass and phenolic resin. A type 2R10 battery with 3 volt goes into such a flashlight, you can still order it. Strange that the light bulb in the video is 3.5 volts, manufacturers usually use a light bulb with a lower voltage rating than the battery for flashlights.
Good job fixing the vintage flashlight. You're right about the voltage, these came with 2.5V/0.3A bulbs. He probably put that bulb in for use with a lithium cell.
The House of my Grandparents, build in 1956 had Sockets that would fit this kind of Plug. The were common when House Installations were not having PE. I guess thats why sockets are sometimes are called "Schweinenase" (Piggy Nose) in German.
My grandmother had a similar flashlight when I was a child. In the middle position the button can be pressed to press-activate the flashlight. I guess the version for the Eastern market had different label without the English name. I am from Hungary.
9:47 those plug types are very popular by old British standards, most British colonies use that doggy plug. In Sri Lanka those were until a few years ago but now switched to new British socket. I think still in India and South Africa still use those. Invented by made in England in the past.
I had a flashlight like that. A special 3V battery was made for it, which has been out of production for decades now. Nice to see that an 18650 fits nicely, just add a spacer "tube" so it does not move inside too much. The problem was that you had a 3V battery but bulbs were either 2,5V or 3,5V. The 2,5V bulbs gave brighter light, but burned out faster. I did not understand why there was no 3V bulb made for these lamps. The last charger I recognized instantly, have seen it before. I do not consider it a safe product, the pins are not halfway isolated, so it must go to a socket without a recess. To it is as unsafe as plugs and sockets in North America.
I used to have a similar flashlight to that blue one, but it was a larger version with D cell batteries. Sadly destroyed by dodgy Chinese batteries leaking inside.
In Europe we had special batteries for small torchlites like the one featured in the video. They had three 1/2C cells in a plastic or cardboard tube. They are really hard to find nowadays.
I like that one a lot. Somebody still needs to make the button cell chargers like that but made better of coarse for safety features & those would be really nice to have. Thanks again, a good video.
I have a rechargeable lead acid flashlight from at least 60 years ago and it uses capacitive dropper, charging two lead acid cells...i'm not shure if it was retrofitted with lead acids... but they look pretty old, in a glass jars, and they recovered pretty well (after many months of desulfatation ;-) alltho they were dry of liquid when i got them...
Just another thought the battery for that torch would of been a number 8 not about now but were popular in the 40s and 50s, they were 2 cells and gave out 3v, hope this helps.
I thought somebody invented a Flashlight ( Torch ) for a battery not to be invented until 40+ years later. Used your info it crosses to a Duplex, 2R10 and it's still available!
ScottBeebiWan I understood that when I said it... hence the choice of descriptive words... 'probably sounds like' describes the level of precision we're working with here... (it SOUNDS LIKE it's a date in the 1800's, even though it's actually closer to eight and a half thousand years in the future not 200 plus years in the past..) It's not accurate exact or even correct... your right... it's called a joke, it's meant to be funny not necessarily make sense, you should get out more. I'd invite you somewhere social if we where all chillin' in the same room. Anyways you should be made aware that; it's considered good etiquette to avoid putting someone in the position of explaining a joke because it often ruins the humor in it.
Someone else liked the comment so I clicked the notification and ended up reading my reply to your reply, and I came off as a bit of an ass... sorry, I'm not usually that way, not sure why I got all defensive of a stupid joke, I must have been in a mood. Anyways, I could have explained that I was aware of the maths without being condescending... My tone was uncalled for and I apologize for that.
Those round lightbulbs were more durable than modern ones. Old soviet carbolite plugs also came apart with screws and could be replaced. There were simple chargers in Russia with a capacitive dropper for portable radios with a round 9V NiCad battery. I attempted to use a it as a power supply when I was a kid, and was utterly perplexed when it zapped me but didn't power up or destroy the radio.
Hi, and greetings from Norway. That zoomable torch are from my childhood, and at 2: 40 you say there are an issue of short circuit. There are not, unless you put in a battery different from what the torch are made for. The original battery (2 c-cell?) have a pluspole that there are room for within the lamp socket. also the batteries those days were made different from todays batteries, the plus pole was limited to the knob in the middle, the rest of the battry top was insulation.
Tesla (national corporation) was the biggest (and more or less the only) producer of electronics and electronic parts in former Czechoslovakia. It produced almost all electronic parts and electronic appliances you could think of in the era. It was active from 1946 to 1990's. Then it succumbed to cheap imported Chinese crap that flooded our market when the borders opened after the revolution.
Hi enjoyed your items, knew most of them except the button charger, I too have loads of interesting things and must start to show them. I have just ordered a VFD clock almost like the one you were showing, my one is by Alton model 12v-41, I would think the inside would be the same.......I have subscribed to you....thankyou.
4:48 эти доо1 лечатся так. Зажимаем в тиски и через досточку давим стальным шариком внутрь "-" контакта. Внутри продавлмвается сгнившая пластина из-за которой аккум теряет контакт. А кишки у аккума вечные. Есть и 91 года рабочие
Yeah? How's your Swedish? Judge ye not lest ye be judged. Just say'n. I speak 7 languages, only 3 of them well, and of those three I can only be truly be eloquent in. And I'm only at least functionally fluent in 5 and only conversationally fluent in the three so I understand how hard it is to really be a good speaker in a non-native tongue. Do you? If you make comments like that, I already know the answer.
My Swedish is nonexistent, and I'd be one of the first ones to laugh at my attempts to speak Swedish. In fact, I'm so comfortable with the judgment of others that I'm not upset at the implication that I'm an awful human being for laughing at you. To a native English speaker, your accent is literally funny. No offense intended. I'm impressed with your septalinguality, and I apologize for being offensive.
Jason Reed, I'm not the content provider. I'm some random keyboard warier or whatever. American English is my native language... ish... I'll explain. And idk, I like DiodeGonWild so I jumped to his defence, I don't even know if he's even offended lol. But as I see it, as long as you can take what you dish out than it's fair game to me so cool, I can respect that. And thanks for the complement... I grew up in a mixed Mexican and American household with a deaf sister and Hindu as our religion so there's English, Spanish, ASL (American Sign Language) and Hindi right out of the gate... I took French in High School and so starting out in life with 4 languages I already impressed so I came to like the impression I had on people and wanted more so I began studying other languages in hopes that I could impress the girls even more... turns out there's diminishing returns on that but languages are fascinating to me so I continued to study them. But it helps that I had a major head start so... I do still like that it's impressive that I know so many languages so I gladly accept your complement, so um, thank you again.
Very nice I to have a torch like one you showed first in your video and would not of thought of using a 18650 cell in it but put one in it and bingo it works so I changed the bulb to led and now have old school flashlight with new parts.
In my view these are all valuable collectibles... to be honest I would gladly restore some as concept and demonstration, like in the case of the charger. We're covering the 'Jinping factories with gold for making us buy something our grandfather had better designed in Europe several decades ago.
Však to sú teslacke naše staré československé súčiastky..... kondenzátor,NiCd baterky, žiarovka...😀to sú nezničiteľne veci nie ako tie čínske čo testuje🙂
For model Battery Charger 102E, Medicor Müvek; Budapest: Thanks for Első Zalai Rádiómúzeum Alapítvány, First Zala County Radio Museum Foundation. Radiomuseum.org
Yes i thought the metal torch was nice too :-D, your 18650 fitted it really well, just a simple plastic tube is needed to keep the battery in the center. You are right with the original "C" cells, they would have ruined the inside :-( Some torches had a center position for the switch, so you could flash morse code, although i don't know if anyone found it that usefull lol. The charge up yellow one looked quite odd, im supprised the cells were still alive. What a strange need for a mains to 12v transformer, i can't think of a reason for that. The button cell charger did look very sturdy and insulated, as long as you didnt allow a modern (Stupid) human touch it LOL. Nice little collection :-D
The original cells probably were two Sub-C or 4/5 Sub-C, not real C. The C is too big for this. Or maybe it was some kind of 3V or 4.5V battery that has been discontinued donkeys years ago. I have seen a second torch of the same type and it had 2.5V bulb instead of 3.5V one. Yes, the bigger torches of the same style had morse code feature. My grandfather has few of those. They also come with an extension pipe, to fit more batteries into it. But you have to replace the bulb for a one with higher voltage rating (or blow it). The NiCd cells are probably the only chemistry of batteries that lasts so long. I also wonder about the purpose of the wooden 12V Edison transformer. The contacts in the charger are almost impossible to touch unless you have very small fingers.
Sorry, i made a mistake with the "C" cells, it's not allways easy to gauge what size a battery is by watching a video. Perhaps the edison transformer is just for testing 12v bulbs LOL :-D
My guess that the Edison transformer was used as a test station in a bulb shop. They were (are?) common in bulb shops to quick test if it works before buying one.
Not necessarily! There was for several decades, a two cell battery (3v in total). It was narrower than 'C' cells, and had a cardboard shell. Undoubtedly, 18650 was dimensionally modelled after this older battery - known simply as a 'Flash light' battery.
@@Zebra_Paw Agreed, but the bulb can be replaced with one of a more appropriate value, but remember also be that it was commonplace to overrun torch bulbs. They burnt brighter on a fresh battery, but the battery voltage depleted quite rapidly to meet the bulb halfway. Very commonly, a 2.5v bulb would be run at 3v. Curiously, it didn't seem to cause any appreciable harm.
Yayy;D I live in slovakia and tesla was very good factory in slovakia. They made lot of flashlights , speaker and other things. Oh, where you get that flashlight?
Rahim K Vayath Nicd can last quite a lot depending on the way you treat it, the main problem is that they are crap, that why its better to just have a nimh battery that lasts half as many xharges but that has four times the capasity, in the end, the useful mAh you get from a nimh baterry are much more for the same size
dude that light needs a cree xm-l2 bulb led mod n stuff..wood or plastic both burns i fellyou though on the fire thing but ill bet it just a head thing
I love it when you have old things... because your new things are the same as everyone else's.... but your old things, from "behind the iron curtain" are very different from my old things and "different" is always interesting.
Who would have guessed that a 650 would fit in and work in that old but interesting flashlight. I am stunned that the housing is wood. What a unique item. Cheers from Canada.
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I like vintage things though they are simple and ordinary-looking, but there is something in them that warm from childhood.
I remember seeing a torch similar to that when I was younger. It also had a read button next to the sliding switch which I guess was for signalling as it turns on the torch when pressed continuously.
01:33 Something just feels wrong about putting an 18650 cell into something that old.
Hi! I am from Hungary! Medicor was a company that made medical electronics in our country. They made also a similar battery charger for Soviet /Russian Sokol radios in 70's. As far as I know the original one was transformerless, it was not accepted, so they made one with it and it was so big. Former European unearthed sockets were flat. They are not in use any longer. We have recessed ones with earthening contactors up and down.
Károly Varga well said 😊, I was born in Debrecen where a large Medicor firm was located. Devices from the small world of socialist economical commission (KGST or 'ComEcon in english) in this video 😀
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Látom nem te vagy itt a komentok közt a egyetlen elektronikával foglalkozó magyar . :)
European sockets in Poland has an earthing pin instead of the up/down contacts. They use that style in Germany more often.
I had a metal torch exactly like item number one. It used an old style, and now defunct, 3v 'Flashlight' battery. Those batteries were narrower than 'C' cells, and had a cardboard sleeve/shell. Dimensionally, almost that same as 18650, and no doubt it's predecessor.
The white cylindrical device, item number 3; We had the UK version of that thing - Did you ever figure it out? - It's actually a nightlight adapter for a child's room. Ours also had a 12v output, but there was also a 6v version. One would use a 2W to 3W car panel light bulb. The other, used 6v radio dial lamp bulbs. These things seemed to appear toward the end of WW2, and were considered to be safer than a a candle, which could get knocked over and cause a fire. At 3W, the light was approximated to that of a standard domestic candle (1cp).
Your accent is so cool!
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That torch is super cool, so simple, old school and in super good shape for its apparent age.
It’s so nostalgic to see these videos again. I just love this channel.
Cool devices. Great bit of history you showed us there.
The wooden lightbulb adapter was syuuper dodgy !!!
I don't think so. Old transformers were built to last.
I bet I could 3D print a collar for the 18650 to keep it centered making it much more shock resistant and safer.
You got a nice collection of Czech things. I have all of them from my grandparents too. :)
Fantastic video about mysterious old devices. 🔦 I got a flashlight very similar to the one at the beginning from a junk shop (in Switzerland). Mine has a glass made of silicate glass, not plastic, it must be quite old. The socket of the lightbulb broke, it was made of white plastic, I suspect it was cellulloid, which decomposed after decades. I made a new socket out of brass and phenolic resin. A type 2R10 battery with 3 volt goes into such a flashlight, you can still order it. Strange that the light bulb in the video is 3.5 volts, manufacturers usually use a light bulb with a lower voltage rating than the battery for flashlights.
Good job fixing the vintage flashlight. You're right about the voltage, these came with 2.5V/0.3A bulbs. He probably put that bulb in for use with a lithium cell.
@@zwz.zdenek Thanks. Yes, it must have been like that. That can hardly be the original lightbulb.
The House of my Grandparents, build in 1956 had Sockets that would fit this kind of Plug. The were common when House Installations were not having PE.
I guess thats why sockets are sometimes are called "Schweinenase" (Piggy Nose) in German.
My grandmother had a similar flashlight when I was a child. In the middle position the button can be pressed to press-activate the flashlight. I guess the version for the Eastern market had different label without the English name. I am from Hungary.
I have also seen the second one somewhere. I don't remember exactly. AFAIR that one did not work either. Probably one of my grandmas had it :-).
In case of yellow flashlight I thought it is shaver w/o cable.
So did I when I saw this type for the first time :). I also thought the transformer was a circuit breaker to retrofit the edison screw fuses.
Very interesting and enjoyable, thanks 🙏
Between my parents and grandparents things I found flashlights similar to those you showed. Nice old tech indeed and not build to be thrown away
9:47 those plug types are very popular by old British standards, most British colonies use that doggy plug. In Sri Lanka those were until a few years ago but now switched to new British socket. I think still in India and South Africa still use those. Invented by made in England in the past.
I had a flashlight like that. A special 3V battery was made for it, which has been out of production for decades now. Nice to see that an 18650 fits nicely, just add a spacer "tube" so it does not move inside too much. The problem was that you had a 3V battery but bulbs were either 2,5V or 3,5V. The 2,5V bulbs gave brighter light, but burned out faster. I did not understand why there was no 3V bulb made for these lamps. The last charger I recognized instantly, have seen it before. I do not consider it a safe product, the pins are not halfway isolated, so it must go to a socket without a recess. To it is as unsafe as plugs and sockets in North America.
The battery cover on the first flashlight looks like it was made from a bottle top.
NiCd baterky funkční po tolika letech mě dost překvapily. Ty co se používaly na základních deskách PC (386 apod.), bývají dnes často vyteklé.
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I used to have a similar flashlight to that blue one, but it was a larger version with D cell batteries. Sadly destroyed by dodgy Chinese batteries leaking inside.
What was the appropriate cell type for the first Torch? pair of C cells?
In Europe we had special batteries for small torchlites like the one featured in the video. They had three 1/2C cells in a plastic or cardboard tube. They are really hard to find nowadays.
@@albinklein7680 that's why I was wondering because two proper c cells should be much taller than a 18650 to fit properly.
Albin Klein In the US we have 6V square batteries. Larger flashlights still use them. I have one with LEDs that does.
I like that one a lot. Somebody still needs to make the button cell chargers like that but made better of coarse for safety features & those would be really nice to have. Thanks again, a good video.
That charger was for NiCad batteries, which had a bit of an easier time charging like that.
Nobody makes chargers because it's profitable to sell overpriced primary batteries to old people who need hearing aid.
@@zwz.zdenek say what? Are you saying I'm old and need to turn up my hearing aid? Lol 😆.
Ha. A Graetz bridge built just like they're drawn on the schematics. And the bulb transformer is completely new to me.
09:51 That looks to be for a UK shaver socket (BS 4573). 230V 200mA, transformer-isolated.
I have a rechargeable lead acid flashlight from at least 60 years ago and it uses capacitive dropper, charging two lead acid cells...i'm not shure if it was retrofitted with lead acids... but they look pretty old, in a glass jars, and they recovered pretty well (after many months of desulfatation ;-) alltho they were dry of liquid when i got them...
The 4th device is a vintage hungarian button battery charger. Detailed infos here: www.radiomuseum.org/r/medicor_battery_charger_102e.html
For item #3 I said "it's going to be a transformer for 127V bulbs" turns out I was right, but the voltage guess was wrong :D
mine too
Very interesting and nice piece of history!
Would surround the battery in the flashlight with a liner to keep it centered,
maybe with a 'washer' of cardboard inside to insulate around the bulb
Probably a 21700 lithium battery would be a better match in width although it may be a bit too long
Just another thought the battery for that torch would of been a number 8 not about now but were popular in the 40s and 50s, they were 2 cells and gave out 3v, hope this helps.
I thought somebody invented a Flashlight ( Torch ) for a battery not to be invented until 40+ years later. Used your info it crosses to a Duplex, 2R10 and it's still available!
Wow what a coincidence! I just came across this exact flashlight while searching in my basement storage! I wonder How did it end up there??
Wow! An 18650 zoomable torch from some date that probably sounds like 18650 lol
18650 hasn't happened yet. 2018 < 18650
ScottBeebiWan I understood that when I said it... hence the choice of descriptive words... 'probably sounds like' describes the level of precision we're working with here... (it SOUNDS LIKE it's a date in the 1800's, even though it's actually closer to eight and a half thousand years in the future not 200 plus years in the past..) It's not accurate exact or even correct... your right... it's called a joke, it's meant to be funny not necessarily make sense, you should get out more. I'd invite you somewhere social if we where all chillin' in the same room. Anyways you should be made aware that; it's considered good etiquette to avoid putting someone in the position of explaining a joke because it often ruins the humor in it.
Someone else liked the comment so I clicked the notification and ended up reading my reply to your reply, and I came off as a bit of an ass... sorry, I'm not usually that way, not sure why I got all defensive of a stupid joke, I must have been in a mood. Anyways, I could have explained that I was aware of the maths without being condescending...
My tone was uncalled for and I apologize for that.
By the size and voltage its either some lithium battery which are 3.2V or some old alkaline batteries similar to SubC but thinner
@@binaryglitch64 That was a cool thing ya did🙈🙉🙊
Those round lightbulbs were more durable than modern ones. Old soviet carbolite plugs also came apart with screws and could be replaced. There were simple chargers in Russia with a capacitive dropper for portable radios with a round 9V NiCad battery. I attempted to use a it as a power supply when I was a kid, and was utterly perplexed when it zapped me but didn't power up or destroy the radio.
Hi, and greetings from Norway.
That zoomable torch are from my childhood, and at 2: 40 you say there are an issue of short circuit. There are not, unless you put in a battery different from what the torch are made for. The original battery (2 c-cell?) have a pluspole that there are room for within the lamp socket. also the batteries those days were made different from todays batteries, the plus pole was limited to the knob in the middle, the rest of the battry top was insulation.
The cap is shorted internally. Actually a common issue back in the day.
I once got the same flashlight new from a store.
Interesting collection of stuff there,
very cool time travel
2:26 isnt the battery shorted?
The switch was off at this moment. Otherwise, the battery would be shorted, of course.
Hey DGW, can you or any viewers tell me more about this Tesla brand? I find these vintage devices fascinating.
Tesla (national corporation) was the biggest (and more or less the only) producer of electronics and electronic parts in former Czechoslovakia. It produced almost all electronic parts and electronic appliances you could think of in the era. It was active from 1946 to 1990's. Then it succumbed to cheap imported Chinese crap that flooded our market when the borders opened after the revolution.
you can still find products made by TESLA. For example products made by joint stock company TESLA Stropkov ( www.tesla.sk )
I find it absolutely stunning to see how they managed to go from making crappy old flashlights to dominating the battery electric vehicle market.
@@andreasu.3546 Different Tesla.
@@andreasu.3546 that was a different tesla. Elon musk isn’t 75 years old.
I am from Czech republic :) ps: your English is best
I'm guessing the transformer is for testing 12V bulbs on a bench?
I had one of those old flashlights
Hi enjoyed your items, knew most of them except the button charger, I too have loads of interesting things and must start to show them. I have just ordered a VFD clock almost like the one you were showing, my one is by Alton model 12v-41, I would think the inside would be the same.......I have subscribed to you....thankyou.
That's a clever button cell charger!
The charger could be the oldest dodgy charger I've ever seen
That black one looks like a battery charger for the batteries in the yellow torch to me
It seems that Nicd lives forever
I can't believe those are the original cells. I tried to fix one such light in the early 90s and the cells were already dead.
4:48 эти доо1 лечатся так.
Зажимаем в тиски и через досточку давим стальным шариком внутрь "-" контакта.
Внутри продавлмвается сгнившая пластина из-за которой аккум теряет контакт.
А кишки у аккума вечные. Есть и 91 года рабочие
Where can i buy the wooden thing?
your English is too funny
Dangerooos!
Yeah? How's your Swedish? Judge ye not lest ye be judged. Just say'n. I speak 7 languages, only 3 of them well, and of those three I can only be truly be eloquent in. And I'm only at least functionally fluent in 5 and only conversationally fluent in the three so I understand how hard it is to really be a good speaker in a non-native tongue. Do you? If you make comments like that, I already know the answer.
My Swedish is nonexistent, and I'd be one of the first ones to laugh at my attempts to speak Swedish. In fact, I'm so comfortable with the judgment of others that I'm not upset at the implication that I'm an awful human being for laughing at you. To a native English speaker, your accent is literally funny. No offense intended. I'm impressed with your septalinguality, and I apologize for being offensive.
Jason Reed, I'm not the content provider. I'm some random keyboard warier or whatever. American English is my native language... ish... I'll explain. And idk, I like DiodeGonWild so I jumped to his defence, I don't even know if he's even offended lol. But as I see it, as long as you can take what you dish out than it's fair game to me so cool, I can respect that. And thanks for the complement... I grew up in a mixed Mexican and American household with a deaf sister and Hindu as our religion so there's English, Spanish, ASL (American Sign Language) and Hindi right out of the gate... I took French in High School and so starting out in life with 4 languages I already impressed so I came to like the impression I had on people and wanted more so I began studying other languages in hopes that I could impress the girls even more... turns out there's diminishing returns on that but languages are fascinating to me so I continued to study them. But it helps that I had a major head start so... I do still like that it's impressive that I know so many languages so I gladly accept your complement, so um, thank you again.
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Very nice I to have a torch like one you showed first in your video and would not of thought of using a 18650 cell in it but put one in it and bingo it works so I changed the bulb to led and now have old school flashlight with new parts.
In my view these are all valuable collectibles... to be honest I would gladly restore some as concept and demonstration, like in the case of the charger.
We're covering the 'Jinping factories with gold for making us buy something our grandfather had better designed in Europe several decades ago.
Však to sú teslacke naše staré československé súčiastky..... kondenzátor,NiCd baterky, žiarovka...😀to sú nezničiteľne veci nie ako tie čínske čo testuje🙂
I really like the first flashlight. Very fortunate there were no batteries left inside. More fortunate the rechargeable cell is the perfect length
this is our ČSSR flashlight :) now we name czech republic
nunca achei que iria ver algo desse tipo, muito interessante esses objetos antigos !
At 3:28 he said Fleshlight. Gigiddy!!
I rewound it and turned up the volume to confirm that when I "came" by it myself.
For model Battery Charger 102E, Medicor Müvek; Budapest:
Thanks for Első Zalai Rádiómúzeum Alapítvány, First Zala County Radio Museum Foundation.
Radiomuseum.org
Yes i thought the metal torch was nice too :-D, your 18650 fitted it really well, just a simple plastic tube is needed to keep the battery in the center.
You are right with the original "C" cells, they would have ruined the inside :-(
Some torches had a center position for the switch, so you could flash morse code, although i don't know if anyone found it that usefull lol.
The charge up yellow one looked quite odd, im supprised the cells were still alive.
What a strange need for a mains to 12v transformer, i can't think of a reason for that.
The button cell charger did look very sturdy and insulated, as long as you didnt allow a modern (Stupid) human touch it LOL.
Nice little collection :-D
The original cells probably were two Sub-C or 4/5 Sub-C, not real C. The C is too big for this. Or maybe it was some kind of 3V or 4.5V battery that has been discontinued donkeys years ago. I have seen a second torch of the same type and it had 2.5V bulb instead of 3.5V one. Yes, the bigger torches of the same style had morse code feature. My grandfather has few of those. They also come with an extension pipe, to fit more batteries into it. But you have to replace the bulb for a one with higher voltage rating (or blow it).
The NiCd cells are probably the only chemistry of batteries that lasts so long. I also wonder about the purpose of the wooden 12V Edison transformer. The contacts in the charger are almost impossible to touch unless you have very small fingers.
Sorry, i made a mistake with the "C" cells, it's not allways easy to gauge what size a battery is by watching a video.
Perhaps the edison transformer is just for testing 12v bulbs LOL :-D
More likely it is a "power saver" or a night light of yesterday.
My guess that the Edison transformer was used as a test station in a bulb shop. They were (are?) common in bulb shops to quick test if it works before buying one.
@@DiodeGoneWild The original cells were 3V batteries. Two 1.5V cells in a carton tube, later in a plastic tube. They are from the 1950s I think.
The flashlight should be powered by two C LR14 batteries...
No, this one uses a 2R10 battery. They also made larger lights for C and even D cells.
Not necessarily! There was for several decades, a two cell battery (3v in total). It was narrower than 'C' cells, and had a cardboard shell. Undoubtedly, 18650 was dimensionally modelled after this older battery - known simply as a 'Flash light' battery.
@@whitesapphire5865 OK, interesting!
But I still believe this doesn't really take 4V in the really long run!
@@Zebra_Paw Agreed, but the bulb can be replaced with one of a more appropriate value, but remember also be that it was commonplace to overrun torch bulbs. They burnt brighter on a fresh battery, but the battery voltage depleted quite rapidly to meet the bulb halfway. Very commonly, a 2.5v bulb would be run at 3v. Curiously, it didn't seem to cause any appreciable harm.
@@whitesapphire5865 Yes, but if this is already a 2.5V bulb... 4V isn't the best idea.
I also overrun my E10 bulbs all the time, but not that hard.
It would have been nice if you had opened the step-down transformer device too.
That button cell battery charger looks like something from the 1930s, I had a set of headphones from that time period that used the same plastic.
Bakelite.
The charger is very likely for button cells in hearing aids.
Last one is probably for an otoscope or something similar. I remember similar odd chargers in my parents medical office.
There were also some russian matchbox-sized miniature AM radios which used NiCd button cells with a charger exactly like this one.
The last one is a charger for hearing aids.
" It does not explode"
Why was he thinking that
I had the exact same flashlight.
8:43 It doesn't explode... LOL
did you find it from old treasure?
Yayy;D I live in slovakia and tesla was very good factory in slovakia. They made lot of flashlights , speaker and other things. Oh, where you get that flashlight?
Mechanic_ spy
If it was such a good favtory why does it only make cars now?
/jk
Im sure the bulb adapter was asbestos.
It looks like a wood to me. But OK, I'm better not going to cut it, drill it or grind it ;).
Phew! Glad you saw this and have not decided to break it open :)
I had no idea nicd batteries could last that long!
I didn't know it was possible to charge a battery without smoothing the output of the bridge rectifier (eg : with a capacitor)
Why not? It never occurred to me to expect an issue from such a setup.
None of these devices, is more mysterious than your ACCENT.
using 18650 in it is priceless
how those ni-cd's survived that much yrs...'amazing
Rahim K Vayath
Nicd can last quite a lot depending on the way you treat it, the main problem is that they are crap, that why its better to just have a nimh battery that lasts half as many xharges but that has four times the capasity, in the end, the useful mAh you get from a nimh baterry are much more for the same size
Very nice fleshlight!
It's a Full Bridge Rectumfryer... mysteriouuuuus and dangeruuuuus!! xD
Back from the days when "Tesla" was making flashlights, not cars. lol
Different tesla
In my old car their was problem in alternator it stop charging frequently because .......it's diodes gone wild ....😜😜😆😆🤣
dude that light needs a cree xm-l2 bulb led mod n stuff..wood or plastic both burns i fellyou though on the fire thing but ill bet it just a head thing
Cool stuff
that capacitor is the same age as me :o
"Light🅱️el🅱️" :)
It is dangeROUS
i recognize that button-cell charger by type.........use nickle/air with it.
nice videos
*Aaand the lightb🅰🅾lb...*
black one charges batteries no???
awesome! thanks !! :)
OLD VINTAGE
08:43 lol 🤣
Mysterious devices 😆😆😆😆😱
that paper cap inside that flashlight is probably wack af