LOST my Malkoff M60

[smokelaw1]

I don't even kow if this is the right place to put my little PO'd rant. If it's not, my humblest apologies.

I have three M60's. Two are older hand built reflectored units. Love them, and still have them in lights. The third is a newer production unit with the optic. I took that new one out when I got an M61. There are only two places that my lights and parts live. In or on my nightstand, and in or on my workbench. It's just flat gone.

Worst part is...it was supposed to be part of a trade I recetnly agreed to! I went to pack it up last night, and I can't find it! I'm ashamed and embarrased. I take my reputation VERY seriously, and anyone who has dealt with me (I hope!!) recognizes my interest in being fully above-board. I've done dozens (hundreds?) or trades, buys and sells....and never had a problem like this...until now, of course.

I've contacted the other party, to offer either cash or one of the hand-built units....he has graciosuly accepted the value of the drop-in in cash. He had already sent my half, so I feel terrible. I will continue to look for it....but HOW did I lose it? I mean, I would have replaced it, and put the old unit down in the shipping materials. That is what I ALWAYS do! ARGH! I never even thought for a half a second that it wouldn't have been exactly where all my parts are.

Anyway, thanks for listening.

Yours in confusion,

SL1

 

[GunSmoke16610]

One thing to say, THINGS HAPPEN... the good thing is your open and honest. What more can you ask for?


Good Luck

 

[Axion]

Keep looking, I bet you'll find it. Every now and then I'll leave something in an odd ball spot and spend a few days convinced that gremlins got it.

 

[Moddoo]

Good luck man, hopefully it turns up.


One of my favorite lights was "gone" for a couple of months.

Finally found it in my travel vanity kit.

 

[kramer5150]

_ _it happens. Good thing about it is its bomb proof and the electronics are fully potted. So, when you find it it will fire right up.

I lost my incan minimag for ~4 years. I found it a couple years ago in my wifes car, it still worked and the old Ray-o-vac alkalines still worked fine!!

thats the greatest feeling re-finding a long lost light. I still have a fenix L1T-V2 floating around my house somewhere. Fortunately it has a NiMH in it... wherever it is.

 

[thebeans]

People don't realize it but small black holes exist on earth. Or at least it seems that way some times. My brother and I were rebuilding an engine in a VW beetle years ago. We dropped a Woodruff key (small hunk of very hard steel) on the floor in the shed where we were working. We heard it hit the floor. We immediately started looking for it and literally looked for hours. We had to drive quite a way the next day to get a replacement. We continued to work on the engine for many more days and never did find that key.

 

[notsofast]

If I had back the time I have lost looking for things I would still be a kid.

It is near by you will find it!

 

[jtblue]

I tend to lose important things all the time at my place but most of them seem to turn up whenever I need them the least, like when I'm chasing mice out of my house:thumbsdow.

You don't happen to have kids or a misses around do you?

 

[Xacto]

I hope you will find it eventually.


I had my adress laser-engraved on my SF6PL head just in case I loose it one day. With any luck one honest soul would find and return it to me.


Cheers
Thorsten

 

[Max_Power]

I hope you will find it eventually.


I had my adress laser-engraved on my SF6PL head just in case I loose it one day. With any luck one honest soul would find and return it to me.


Cheers
Thorsten

Or, they will know whose house to go to for their next light when they lose this one

 

[smokelaw1]

I tend to lose important things all the time at my place but most of them seem to turn up whenever I need them the least, like when I'm chasing mice out of my house:thumbsdow.

You don't happen to have kids or a misses around do you?

2 year old who loves to take and hide thinkgs, beagle-aussie shep mix that likes to bat shiney things around, and a wife who wouldn't know a drop-in from a 12 gauge slug.

Any one of the three could conceivably re responsible. Still, though, whenever I get a new part, I expereiment a bit with it vs what its replaceing, and I do so either next to the bed, or down at my work bench....this really blows me away.