RARE MAGLITES

[Icarus]

Does anyone know when the Mini Maglite 2AA Racing was released?

 

[knucklegary]

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Does anyone know when the Mini Maglite 2AA Racing was released?

Is there a date on box, mo/yr?

 

[sween1911]

Do the 2AA Minimags have serial numbers? I forget, but you can email it to Mag and they can tell you when it was manufacturered.

 

[ABTOMAT]

Those all had 1997 copyright dates, right?

 

[letschat7]

Do the 2AA Minimags have serial numbers? I forget, but you can email it to Mag and they can tell you when it was manufacturered.

Not until the LED ones came around.

 

[Icarus]

Is there a date on box, mo/yr?

There is no date on the box.

 

[Icarus]

Do the 2AA Minimags have serial numbers? I forget, but you can email it to Mag and they can tell you when it was manufacturered.

I know but the incan Mini Maglites don't have a serial number.

 

[bykfixer]

If those are stock batteries that may offer a clue.

They came with various battery brands at various times. Example, my Olympic minimag came with Kodack batteries.

Expiration date (if shown) can also offer a clue.

 

[letschat7]

Were Kodak batteries ever made in USA? I only ever seen them around the holidays and they weren't so good. Now they seem to be British owned.

 

[Monocrom]

Kodak went out of business a few years back. It shocked me because it was a few years before that, that I read "Dracula" for the first time. And was hella shocked to see Kodak referenced in Bram Stoker's book.

 

[letschat7]

Thats a shame. The last camera I bought was a Kodak.

 

[bykfixer]

Kodak supplied the film for the movie Openheimer.
Eastman Kodak is gone, yes but Kodak Alaris is still around. And Funai still produces electronic products with the Kodak name.

At one point they were hired by Uncle Sam to make gereric pharmesuticals but law suits ensued so that is on hold.

I have no idea where Kodak AA batteries were made.

 

[ABTOMAT]

Not my pic, but I think this is the same model.

 

[knucklegary]

Not my pic, but I think this is the same model.

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Looks exactly like @Icarus sample ©1997 MAG..
I'm a little slow lately, what was the question again?

 

[letschat7]

Could the printed on finish be removed leaving the anodise intact?

 

[ABTOMAT]

Another color question: Is the one in the back orange? All three of these are late 1980s; the front two are the same color red but the lighter one is sun faded.

 

[letschat7]

Colour specified by the client? Which looks like Dutch Royal Shell.

 

[knucklegary]

Global Shell orange color. Very cool ML👍

 

[ABTOMAT]

Thanks. Yeah, it's a Shell. I gather Kernridge was a major purchase for them in the 1980s.

 

[Icarus]

Not my pic, but I think this is the same model.

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OMG... you are right. I just checked my own Mini Maglite Racing and they have the same year on it (1997).