Vintage Resuscitator E&J

Brendan Martin

Brendan Martin

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I recently purchased this resuscitator on E-Bay and I am looking for any info that people may have such as what years it was used, and it's overall effectiveness. It is in pretty decent shape and was priced reasonably. Does anyone have photos of their resuscitators they would like to share or discuss?:thankyou2:
 

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I also purchased a Scott Medical Resuscitator several months ago and the case was destroyed during shipping but here is a photo of the unit itself. It does have 3 different sized masks as well.
 

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as a general rule if you find plastic parts on it it would be no earlier then 70s stuff. such as the on off valve on the O2 bottle. there were of course stuff earlier made from plastic but your typical 50 60 stuff used a lot of aluminium or bake-a-light with molded rubber grips. the big change over year was 72 were they were switching out glass for plastic. Richard find you local O2 suplier and ask them if they have a older steel bottle you can buy. most still have one or two around. but now if you find a jumbo D I have a D I'll trade you for it.
 
Back in the Good Ole Days................

We had a Scott on board Car 1 which was a 73 Chevy Superior 61" "Fat Cat" we used it a lot. Alliance Fire carried those E&Js I ought to find out what they did with them. I have some E&Js in the garage. I used a Emerson on our FD that was the old pressure cycled inhalator with the wire cage airways. I have a few of them too.
 
Glad you got it.

Hi Brendan, glad you were able to pick this up. I have a Minuteman without the case, a few of the old, huge E&Js from the early 50's (that weigh 50+ #s)and now the MSA Pneolator I posted about earlier. Never used a pressure flow device even though I started EMS in 1979. By that time they were pretty well all phased out in British Columbia...just too many complications from over pressuring.

I'd like to get my hands on an old H&H Inhalator. I know where one is lurking but can't get the crew to part with it. H&H actually used a mix of O2 and CO2. The idea was to increase the level of CO2 in order to stimulate respirations. Novel idea but wasn't sustainable.

Richard, as Ed suggested, go to your local oxygen supplier, welding gas company, or EMS service. The tanks usually need to be hydrostatic tested every 10 years so some agencies sell rather than pay the cost. Some are lease returns to the companies as well. You can also find them on ebay however they can't be shipped full. Search under oxygen tank. Also search under "resuscitator" for other stuff. That's where Brendan and I found our items.
 
Brendan Martin said:
Richard I have a couple small steel bottles. I find them at work periodically you are welcome to a few. I can bring them to Albany.
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Hey that would be great. I can hold out Brendan. I have a single oxygen tank holder in the Criterion by the bench I would like to place a tank in. Thanks. :cheers:
 
Minuteman

I picked up a Minuteman on Ebay but it did not have a tank.
I did get an old steel D tank in an older simple oxygen regulator kit but even it is too wide for the Minuteman for some reason.
Its hard to find the older steel tanks now that aluminum and the newer composites are available. Older rural fire departments once kept all sorts of stuff in the back storage just in case... they might be good places to check.
 
I live in a rural area, and I have learned that the old rural fire departments will never part with any of the old equipment for fear that they might need it someday. There was one department that had a cellar and attic full of old stuff, but wouldn't give it away. One day the chief had a 40 yard roll off dumpster put on the side of the building and told the men on duty that they were to empty the cellar and attic into the dumpster, and that they were not to take anything home. They filled the dumpster 3 times before the building was empty. I was told that they threw away old lights, sirens, gurneys, oxygen equipment, beds, etc. The building was built in the 1890's and some of the stuff probably was just about as old.
 
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