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masscj2a
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2017 at 9:19pm |
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My girlfriends Dad passed away a few years back and we are just starting to go through the basement. This is what we found a week or so ago and we still have a lot of cleaning to do. Guess where this is going to be ??
You can barely see Property of US Government on the Camco. |
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1946 CJ2a Dauntless aka Jalopy
1946 VEC stock 1981 CJ-8 5.3 LS 1966 CJ-6 SBC TUX 1968 CJ-6 225 V6 1974 CJ-6 4.2 1967 M-416 East Coast Modified CJ's |
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SE Kansas 46 CJ-2A
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The knife is known as a TL-29 lineman's Knife. It was standard issue in lineman's tool kits, and electrician's tool kits by the Army Signal Corps at least though the Vietnam era. I had several issued to me and lost in the two years I served in Vietnam.
A word of caution about the screwdriver blade, it has a sharp edge and will collapse under a load, the result of which could be a cut finger. Ask me how I know. |
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46 CJ-2A #64462 "Ol' Red" (bought April 1969)(second owner)(12 V, 11" brakes, M-38 frame, MD Juan tub)
U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer(ret.) U.S. Army Vietnam veteran and damned proud of it. |
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Thanks for the heads up, but I imagine it will be used on my computer table to open letters. The first aid kit will be mounted in the 47 and have upgraded meds inside. I was wondering were and what I would put my medicals in, now I know.
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1946 CJ2a Dauntless aka Jalopy
1946 VEC stock 1981 CJ-8 5.3 LS 1966 CJ-6 SBC TUX 1968 CJ-6 225 V6 1974 CJ-6 4.2 1967 M-416 East Coast Modified CJ's |
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Lee MN
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Nice find!.
Weekends I go to town early in the mornings and have breakfast with my old guy friends, usually drive a Jeep there, last fall a guy comes into the resurant and hollers, "Who drives the Army Jeep in the lot", that's me!, he gave me a very nice first aid kit like yours full of what's goes inside, wanted it to go to a good home. I then took him for a ride around town. My dad gave me a knife like that when I was 6 yo, mom took it away as I removed all the outlet covers in the living room with it, LOL. Lee |
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masscj2a
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oops, mom was correct to do that. Gotta love moms, they are why we survive............
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1946 CJ2a Dauntless aka Jalopy
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True!, back then I diddint think so, LOL Lee |
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Yep, we are still around so our mothers must have been doing the right things. I've been known to yell at a few kids for them to stop doing whatever they were doing and they are still around. Some of them are parents now so they get to do the same thing.
Wait, I'm not a mother? |
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I have a few of the TL-29 pocket knifes here that I was also issued. They are still issued today, but.....todays TL-29s have a brass block that prevents the screw driver blade from folding back on them now. Every time I use the screwdriver blade, I think of how painful it would be to be pushing and the blade fold back onto your fingers! One of the few, Frank USMC RET |
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This one has the brass locking portion as well. Cool
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1946 CJ2a Dauntless aka Jalopy
1946 VEC stock 1981 CJ-8 5.3 LS 1966 CJ-6 SBC TUX 1968 CJ-6 225 V6 1974 CJ-6 4.2 1967 M-416 East Coast Modified CJ's |
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Oh, make no mistake...the TL-29 I had that sliced a finger open had the brass lock on it, but it had been well used before it was issued to me and the lock didn't work just one time... There are better tools in the lineman's tool kit to use for a screwdriver than the TL-29. That particular TL-29 was a "combat loss" after it sliced my finger... I threw it in the nearest ditch and drew another new one later from supply. Never trusted it as a screwdriver after that, but I did use the knife blade almost daily to skive wire insulation. Specialist Five, U.S. Army, Signal Corps, Vietnam, 1966-68 Specialist Five, U.S. Army Reserve, Corps of Engineers, 1968-1972 Chief Petty Officer, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, 1989-2007 (Ret.) |
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46 CJ-2A #64462 "Ol' Red" (bought April 1969)(second owner)(12 V, 11" brakes, M-38 frame, MD Juan tub)
U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer(ret.) U.S. Army Vietnam veteran and damned proud of it. |
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