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  1. Dumpster Diver

    Grandpas original B-2 Flight Jacket

    WOW! never seen one of these before, Pretty Rare indeed.
  2. Dumpster Diver

    Restoring/salvaging an original B-3 jacket...HELP!

    Would love to see, I will take a look see if I can find it.
  3. Dumpster Diver

    Good Wear A-2, contract 1939 Werber Sportswear

    Beautiful colour, and I really like the cut. Looks Super expensive, duno how you blokes afford such luxuriance!
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    Restoring/salvaging an original B-3 jacket...HELP!

    Take some various pics of the Jacket, I might be able to Help walk you through a few repairs and tips I Picked up along the way, if you get stuck on a patch or zipper and if Im wrong about a certain repair procedure, people here can point it out for me! the way to begin repairs totally...
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    Restoring/salvaging an original B-3 jacket...HELP!

    Ask at a wool or knitting shop about special lanolin oil soap for washing wool. its special stuff, I used it on my b-3 Recently, cleaned the wool suprisingly well. you can get different types of wool soap, I used a spray bottle with the eucaliptus oil lanolin wool soap, called; Euchalan...
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    my new jacket reeks of linseed oil.

    I hear somewhere before mink oil Rots stitches, probly the case...most of the stitching on my 70 year old leather collection was questionable to begin with. I should probly spring for *the good stuff* to oil my jackets, too bad I never see it for sale over the counter of my local shops...
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    my new jacket reeks of linseed oil.

    Just good old Wear and tear. Not much you can do about that cuff, Keep it ply with a bit of mink oil or something on it, Personally I like a Ratty old Jacket more than a brand spankin new one...more character!
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    American Pickers Irvin

    Wear it with utmost Care if you have to, Its a treasure.
  10. Dumpster Diver

    Catch 22 Jackets

    I Had a VHS copy of Dark blue world, no idea where it got to, an Excellent Film.
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    Catch 22 Jackets

    The rough wear collar and Stockyness reminds me of the modern day Cooper Repro. The Perry sportswear is a nice cut, duno, couldnt choose which I like better. they both have good features. The First 10 minutes in Catch-22 really fires me up!!!
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    my new jacket reeks of linseed oil.

    Whatever you do, dont febreeze it! Condition it with some other type of oil and wipe it clean. Air it out. At least its linseed oil, you oughta smell some of MY jackets.
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    American Pickers Irvin

    Please wear it Carefully for me, I really cant stress this enough! oh, post a pic of it, I would love to see! take good care of it..PROMISE!!! (I cannot believe you wear yours!!! see...THIS RIGHT HERE is why we need a GOOD QUALITY REPRO!!!)
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    American Pickers Irvin

    The Yellow Hood OWNS!!! Unsightly you say...BLasphemous Talk I say!!!
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    American Pickers Irvin

    The Yellow Hood is Reversable. Mine has a fleece body made of chocolate brown, with a few light patches here and there. But, the Hood is a different Cut, made of Beautiful Golden brown Fleece, much different than the rest. I Love these jackets, They should be more popular. and if...
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    American Pickers Irvin

    Same as the Jacket in my AV. Very Cool Jacket, And they dont turn up very often. I would love a re-issue, though Im sure it would be a limited run and not cheap. will look for this episode.
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    Gloves

    Would Love some Air Gunners Gauntlets with Trigger fingers, I got a pair, but theyre not for Wearin, Just for lookin at. Any repros out there..Closest I got are some oldschool 60s-70s blue Snowmobile Gloves.
  20. Dumpster Diver

    War wounds--Battle Damage and wear and tear on Historical Leather.

    On closer Inspection, the Talon Zip on the B-3 has BROWN Tape. So I could use the one I have already, but The only bad spot of the Zip is the bottom stop is missing where the lead slides into, and a few Teeth, other than that someone did a Rather fine Job installing it, and would be a shame...
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    War wounds--Battle Damage and wear and tear on Historical Leather.

    M-39s are in stock! No other Talon is in stock anymore, I should probly get one or Regret one. GOOD NEWS though!!! The brown ones are for the A-2s I presume, I have a B-3 with a pacific theatre khaki coloured zipper. I worked the Original zipper back to working order just now while...
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    War wounds--Battle Damage and wear and tear on Historical Leather.

    MASH vintage Has a Dead stock of Zippers ehh...:eyebrows: Wonder where and how they got em, and how many they have in stock too! It is True you absolutely must have a working Zip for wearing a Jacket like this. Like I DOOooo have a WW2 Issue Talon Zip lurking.. I need to check out, but the...
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    War wounds--Battle Damage and wear and tear on Historical Leather.

    It will be a 600 Dollar Jacket if I buy a NOS Talon zzzzip! My goodness!!! What do you mean get the zip professionally Installed!!! I AM a pro! I will do a fine job on my own garaunteed! the only thing I Truly need to go all the way Legit is 100% Cotton Thread of Equal Guage and Colour...

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