carrot
Flashaholic
Inspired by the "Can a Surefire really saw through another flashlight" thread, I decided to do my own (very unscientific) testing... whether a Maglite bulb is really as fragile as people say.
I threw my Mini Maglite while lit 16 times before it broke. I estimate each of those throws is equivalent to falling 10-12 feet. The bi-pin lamp unseated itself twice. I put the bulb back in both times. The third time the bi-pin bulb came out, I tried to put it back in, but the plastic "DO NOT REMOVE" cap had also come off, and one of the contacts had bent irrepairably. The bulb and filament did not break.
My conclusions: The Mini Maglite is a nice tube of metal.
Pictures if wanted later. (Saturday or Sunday, camera is packed away).
I threw my Mini Maglite while lit 16 times before it broke. I estimate each of those throws is equivalent to falling 10-12 feet. The bi-pin lamp unseated itself twice. I put the bulb back in both times. The third time the bi-pin bulb came out, I tried to put it back in, but the plastic "DO NOT REMOVE" cap had also come off, and one of the contacts had bent irrepairably. The bulb and filament did not break.
My conclusions: The Mini Maglite is a nice tube of metal.
Pictures if wanted later. (Saturday or Sunday, camera is packed away).
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