HDS Systems EDC: Suggestions #1

[Hogokansatsukan]

Hogo- it's sooo cold in MN right now, we NEED a truly warm emitter option for our HDSs!!!

Hey, now don't think that we in Tucson don't understand cold. I had to wear a long sleeve shirt today and ALMOST needed to put the windshield up on the MUTT when I went to the post office this afternoon. I can relate to cold!

Actually, I grew up in Minnesota... and once I left, I haven't returned.
I have to go outside now and sweep the sunshine off the driveway.

 

[Cpl S]

Hogo, that's just cold. Pun intended

 

[InvisibleFrodo]

What's that dark thing in the bottom left corner of the photograph? It's shaped just like a man holding up a camera or a phone, but it's just some dark shape, like a silhouette, but not a silhouette...

 

[Hogokansatsukan]

What's that dark thing in the bottom left corner of the photograph? It's shaped just like a man holding up a camera or a phone, but it's just some dark shape, like a silhouette, but not a silhouette...

It's me soaking up the afternoon sun's rays... while taking a picture. LOL!

 

[InvisibleFrodo]

Oh, so THATs what a shadow looks like...
Wait- what are "sun rays"??

 

[JimIslander]

So cold today I had to wear a jersey while riding some off road on the dirt bike. First time in four years!

Bro-in-Law who moved North ("Sunbird?") had -49 windchill in Watertown, WI. Brrrrr!

 

[Hogokansatsukan]

Oh, so THATs what a shadow looks like...
Wait- what are "sun rays"??

Those are what you see in the summer there. Here, they are what makes the steering wheel hot enough so that you need oven mitts to drive.

 

[nbp]

Watertown is about 45 min from me. It was -23F with -49 windchills when I got up this morning. I went to an appointment at 3pm this afternoon and it was still -15F actual. Haha

 

[scout24]

"Sweep the sunshine off the driveway" you say... I had this Drill Sergeant once...

 

[Cpl S]

"Sweep the sunshine off the driveway" you say... I had this Drill Sergeant once...

LOL, reminds me of a story from bootcamp. We had this television in the squad bay the whole time we were in bootcamp. 1st Phase, no one asked about it. We were too busy getting "wore out". But second phase, some yahoo decided to ask the drill instructor if we could watch the TV during that 1 hour break we got just before we hit the rack. The drill instructor looked shocked at the request. So, with a bellow that comes from way deep under the diaphram, the insctuctor asked if we all wanted to watch TV. LOL, we all said YES SIR! Damn it........That drill instructor had us stand at attention in front of our footlockers. These were shin-high boxes that stored all our gear. We then had to place our feet on the footlockers and assume a push-up position. Next, we had to rest on our elbows, with our hands under our chins, like we were watching cartoons on a Saturday morning. Ugh.....every time the instructor yelled out another cartoon, we had to reach out with one hand and change the imaginary station on the imaginary TV. Each time, switching from one hand to the other.

Holy Hell, that sucked. No one ever asked to watch that TV again.

 

[thermal guy]

Lol. Nice. And old school. Instructors can't even yell or swear at recruits now. And if it gets to tough on them they can get a timeout slip and go sit someplace quiet and safe?!!! Lmao when I was if you didn't get a smack to head before dawn the black hat was dead 😂😂

 

[bigburly912]

Lol. Nice. And old school. Instructors can't even yell or swear at recruits now. And if it gets to tough on them they can get a timeout slip and go sit someplace quiet and safe?!!!

Wow is that true? Let's not let this get political or the state of our patheticness we live in now. Just a yes or no. Do they literally issue timeout slips if someone feels victimized? Haha

 

[thermal guy]

Yes they do.

 

[InvisibleFrodo]

That's kind of funny in a weird way. Does anyone know when that started?

 

[thermal guy]

After I was in I can tell you that! 😂😂

 

[RCS1300]

It would be great if HDS could make a male protective cap to sell for the battery tube side of its flashlight heads. I have many different battery tubes presently and can purchase almost twice as many new flashlight heads, with the same budget, if I did not have to purchase the battery tubes to protect the inside of the flashlight heads.

 

[Random Dan]

It would be great if HDS could make a male protective cap to sell for the battery tube side of its flashlight heads. I have many different battery tubes presently and can purchase almost twice as many new flashlight heads, with the same budget, if I did not have to purchase the battery tubes to protect the inside of the flashlight heads.

I wonder if the same plastic bottle cap that folks use a diffuser could be used for this purpose.

 

[thermal guy]

It would be great if HDS could make a male protective cap to sell for the battery tube side of its flashlight heads. I have many different battery tubes presently and can purchase almost twice as many new flashlight heads, with the same budget, if I did not have to purchase the battery tubes to protect the inside of the flashlight heads.

I don't understand. Your buying batteries tubes to protect you HDS head? As in the back end of it where the threads are?

 

[RCS1300]

I wonder if the same plastic bottle cap that folks use a diffuser could be used for this purpose.

It has to have a male end. Maybe I can find something in the hardware store....although it won't feel good putting on a $3 part to protect a $225 part. I could see myself acquiring a collection of five different HDS heads.

 

[Random Dan]

It has to have a male end. Maybe I can find something in the hardware store....although it won't feel good putting on a $3 part to protect a $225 part. I could see myself acquiring a collection of five different HDS heads.

Why is that?