How to double your inventory in one day.

[Joamon]

I found a guy advertising a garage sale on craigslist. Said he had lots of coleman lanterns, stoves, and heaters. I wasn't able to make it on the first day,so I asked him what he had left for the second day. He said he started out whith about 80 units and still had about 40 left. Needed to clear them out. Took up to much room. I made about a 30 min drive to see his hall. Most of the odd or rare stuff was gone, but he did still have 4 200a's and alot of 220/228's. Also some turds, a couple of stoves and heaters. Below is what I picked out to buy.











The most expensive thing he had was $10.00. He had a bargain pile. Anything without a globe was $1.00.
All this was $45.00. Out of all this I was able to get...
1. Two 200a's
2. Two sunshine white letter globes
3. Two coleman brand reflectors
4. A homemade case with a groved out bottom and top
5. A like new 1959 220e with torn up box. Needs globe and pump.
6. A 1948 220d
7. And about 6 unused mantles

So I am getting reddy to leave and the guy points to his $1.00 pile (12 units) and says, why don't you take that whole pile......$5.00?



There are 4 turds. Two 1978's , an 82, and an 83. I should be able to get two working models



Parts...anybody say parts....I got parts.

So as I am taking the pictures I look at my $1.00 1963 200a and I am thinking to myself, that vent sure looks dark.
I give it the 45 min teardown special. Clean it, put it back together and reuse one of the mantles I got with the hall.
I had to borrow a new fuel cap, and a trailblazzer globe, and there is no bail, but it burns great.





And after the burn I shut it down you can see the cherry colored vent. $1.00.



What a great morning. Keith

[doug hodder]

good haul! the leftovers for 5 bucks was a real bargain....even if there were a whole lot of "brown" lanterns. Doug

[canned o minimum]

Holy &$#!($# !!! What a haul ! I may need to take a tranquilizer ! ( Heavy breathing, sweating,heart palpitations ! )