Gordon_M wrote:The Dietz was the most common lantern - in fact the one I have was NOS US Army surplus - I don't know of any other lantern that is a direct fit in that bracket?
I think that Dietz was making themselves almost a couple of dozens of different types of lanterns in their New York and Syracuse plants... in NY during WWII... and then in Hong Kong after war...
thus, I would love to have evidence of use of their lantern there and not, maybe, of Coleman's... just for example, as I have and have seen WWII Colemans' in use with the US Army...
here you have it:Interested to hear there is a plate inside a trailer with K-38 on it, not seen one of those before.
Don't know of any spring differences.
I have different spring on mine from those listed on FWD manual... and so I'd love to know if they were changed later after production (don't think so, as the same OD paint that is as first paint layer on body seems to be on springs too...)
Note the fit of the lantern in the bracket - has anyone found any other lantern that fits the bracket that well?
so, the problem I think is not to hold on making reproductions until tried to fit the lantern, but to find a lantern that fits into the original (and then repro) cages!
ciao
maurizio