Woodsmans Gear of the 20th Century Part 11

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in the pathfinder school back in another video from our series gear the 20th century woodsman and today we're going to talk about hand warmers and particularly the Johnny warmer stay with me okay so on the table here I've got several examples of hand warmers and I'm sure you've seen these in your grandfather's dresser drawer or in your dad's hunting gear out in the garage things like that these were very popular among sportsmen especially in the mid 20th century even today Zippo still makes a brand new hand warmer just like this today the most popular brand probably of its time was that Johnny warmer and this one is the large size Johnny warmer that is supposed to last for two full days on one charge these two here smaller this one a Japanese version and this one an Abercrombie & Fitch version so let's discuss a little bit of how these hand warmers work how to set them up and how they operate now one advantage to these hand warmers that you have if you are in a hunting camp or something like that is that they burn the same type fuel that's not the white gas fuel that your coma stoves and lanterns burn so you can use the same fuel in them they recommend that you use lighter fluid in them which is a premium naphtha basically in my opinion but the regular Coleman fuel works just fine in these things so you can carry one fuel to power all these different devices and a lot of them had a hole in them so that you can actually light your cigarette there's one there and there's also one large hole here so that you could actually light your cigarette off of this hand warmer while it was in your pocket and one this size was supposed to last a full day when this size would last about two days now what I found with these is filling them up is where you run into the pain because what you have to do with these these work on evaporated fuel very much like all of the komen Atlantic things like that they work on the evaporation of fuel so you've got just like a cigarette lighter has you have inside here you have a wick and that wick has to be filled with fuel getting fuel into that can be kind of a as well without a funnel that's why I like using a small container like this because you're going to get this stuff on things so I generally will put it off to the side or something when I'm filling it up tilt the canister itself toward my fill container or my filling container and then pour gently inside to fill it up and I won't fill this one all the way up and once you had that done you would then take your element and put it on top and it's important that you don't mess with this element too much because you don't want to damage it now this Johnny warmer came with a wick here you want to shake off any excess from this thing and you really preferably want to do that before you put the element back on this one has a wick on the outside with these warmers what you would do once you've filled them up as you would heat this element up from the outside and heat this canister up very similar to what you would do with like a sphere stove or something like that you're heating up the canister itself to pull fuel up and so the fuel fumes would rise up into this catalyst which would burn the fuel and it would keep continuing to burn until it ran out of fuel these square bottom ones are much easier to mess with and fill up and things like that then these abacrombie and fetch peacock and Zippo brand ones are kind of skinny they're more comfortable in your pocket but they're definitely more difficult to mess with now with this Johnny warmer with this large size one that I have here what they've done is they've put an external wiki on this thing and sometimes that wick will pull enough fuel that you can light it and sometimes you have to kind of wet it a little bit to get it to pull fuel but we'll try and see what happens here okay you can see that's holding a flame so now instead of holding a lighter up next to the element itself tea-things up I can just set this aside and let this start to heat everything up and heat this outer element up and start to pull that fuel up into the heating element and so you'd let that sit just like this without putting the lid on it for a few minutes until it was lit and sometimes you can't tell whether it's lit without feeling the heat coming off of it sometimes you won't see it burning bright red or anything until you've had it running for a long time but once you get it lit you would put the lid back on and put it into the given the pouch that it comes with to protect you from being burned because they do get quite hot once they get going you don't want to handle that barehanded necessary once they get going because they will be high so they come with bags that you can put them in you can make your own bag if you buy one somewhere off eBay or something and it doesn't have a bag you can make the bag it's not a big deal the good thing about these is from a standpoint of a guy who's collecting gear like outdoor gear or you're looking for something to collect or something to get into these things are really cheap I bought this one in the box with the original box original instructions and everything off of I want to say Etsy or eBay for about 22 dollars you can buy these Abercrombie & Fitch ones for about the same price these ones made in Japan and the peacocks you can get them for less than $15 especially if you just get one that doesn't have the pouch or anything like I bought this one didn't have the pouch I think I paid $10 for this when I'm at sea or someplace like that so they're cheap to get into collecting if you're into that but they're also cheap to use as woodsman's gear because they don't cost a lot of money to get them now once this thing's been burning for a while you should be able to feel things heating up a little bit I would say that that's probably got it going it's good hot now put the lid on here we'll just kind of hold it for a couple minutes and see if it's still holding heat oh yeah definitely getting plenty warm now so at that point once you've got the thing going and everything's heating up you would put it in the bag while it's still cool enough to hold on to and you're gonna want to move this thing around a little bit you don't want to obviously suffocate this thing of any option or it's gonna go out but you can close up the bag a little bit and put it down in your pocket put it down in the front of your anorak anything like that and just kind of hold your hands against it or even put it against your body to protect your body's core temperature and Johnny warmer actually make a belt that went around your waist so that one of these would be on each side of your kidneys to kind of keep you warm while you were hunting or while you're sitting in a blind a duct line a deer blind something like that or whether you were ice fishing so they were a very very popular item with sportsmen and they're still really I think a viable item today no question about that so I wanted to introduce these warmers to you today again they're fairly inexpensive so they're fairly easy and affordable to get hold of they run on the same gas as either your cigarette liner if you carry a Zippo or if you use Coleman products the things that use white gas or any kind of a sphere stove or an optimist or anything like that these run on the same fuel so they're very efficient as far as having one fuel that will run on all of your devices and I thought that they'd be good for us to talk about in this series because again these things were a staple item if you talk to your dad you talk to your granddad I guarantee you he's either had several of these or still has several of these sitting around in his kit somewhere all right folks one Dave Canterbury of self-reliance Outfitters in the pathfinder school I appreciate you joining me today for another video in our woodsman's gear of the 20th century series I thank you for everything you do for our school for a family for business some of our sponsors and structures affiliates and Friends and I'll be back with another video as soon as I can thanks guys