Show your beat up light.

[srvctec]

Keychain carry for a year and a half.

 

[GMT2330]

Found this on eBay and fell in love with the patina! Obviously it's had a hard life. The replacement bezel is no longer round 🤣.

I added a new rubber switch cover and cleaned it up. It works fine but there's a few artefacts in the beam to give it some character 👍

 

[Chauncey Gardener]

It looks like the night watchman at a butter factory carried it.

 

[leukos]

Or it rolled around in a pickup bed since the 90's!

 

[GMT2330]

I can't bring myself to treat a light like that, but I like the look so I buy them from other people 🤪

 

[Jean-Luc Descarte]

If you'd put an LED upgrade on that, she'd be the ultimate sleeper build

 

[scalpel_ninja]

My trusty E2E with Tana module.

 

[Russianesq]

Keychain Olight

 

[gurdygurds]

Keychain Olight

This is awesome. I've drooled over beat-up keychain lights for so long and bought a new Olight i3e, slapped it on my keys a few weeks back, and won't be taking it off until it deserves to be posted in this thread. I got the Dream Blue color way, so should end up looking like Boba Fett after a few years. Consider this the before pic.....

 

[AMD64Brunette]

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That poor Maglite.. what did it ever do to you? That's at least 30 counts of flashlight abuse.

 

[Brokenarrow]

3 day old TS10SG- Kidding. Took the dremel to it as I did not care for the bright blue

 

[AMD64Brunette]

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3 day old TS10SG

Only 3 days old? Ouch. What happened?

 

[GMT2330]

That poor Maglite.. what did it ever do to you? That's at least 30 counts of flashlight abuse.

It was like that when I bought it 🤣
The question is: what condition were the original bezel + tailcap in when they were replaced?! I can't imagine.
It is now a cherished part of my collection and it doesn't matter if I scratch it accidentally 🙂

 

[GMT2330]

3 day old TS10SG

That looks really cool, although I suspect you were hoping the anodising would hold up a bit longer than that.

Edit: Oh you dremeled it, that makes more sense 🤣

 

[Sabrewulf]

These are 3 of my oldest lights, though i have some Fenix hidden in a bag somewhere that are over a decade old, probably closer to 20. I will say though, titanium doesn't show it's age as the other materials. The Manker was my daily for at least 3 years, but I bet it could easily be polished up real nice.

BetaQ copper keychain. (7 years)
Manker e05tiVN (6 years)
Kr4vn (5 years)

 

[jdboy]

 

[jarobi]

Forgotten on truck bumper while installing shocks. Fell off into the street then ran over by the mailman. This light has led an interesting life.

The Light that Made it Home

I regretted selling my HDS EDC lights. One I sold came home! My buddy told me it quit working. I sold it to him in mint condition, knowing full well he'd put it through its paces on his farm. It came back with the Arc 4 pocket clip and stainless bezel I bought from Lighthound. Stretched...

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