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Flashlight Enthusiast
Not that I have a huge or very expensive collection but you value what you have. Every single device I have is dinged in some way - that is, with the exception of Hound Dog Super. It's perfect and like new. So I freak out about damaging it in some way. So far it stays at home as a museum piece.
My other Hound Dog, the XML2 model, was nearly perfect for a year until I placed it in the car seat. It rolled between the passenger's car seat and the car door. I opened the pass. door, hoping to catch it as it fell from the floor and it did so too fast for me to catch it and in the wrong spot, hitting the asphalt pavement beneath the car. There goes perfection. Now it's a perfect work light.
I got another HD, used, and it's pretty much in the same condition. Works perfectly but dings here and there.
Then you come to accept battle scars.
My other Hound Dog, the XML2 model, was nearly perfect for a year until I placed it in the car seat. It rolled between the passenger's car seat and the car door. I opened the pass. door, hoping to catch it as it fell from the floor and it did so too fast for me to catch it and in the wrong spot, hitting the asphalt pavement beneath the car. There goes perfection. Now it's a perfect work light.
I got another HD, used, and it's pretty much in the same condition. Works perfectly but dings here and there.
Then you come to accept battle scars.