JaguarDave-in-Oz
Enlightened
I can't show you any pictures but I'll try to draw a picture using working class words.
My daily use torch currently resides clipped in my top overalls pocket. It lives there day and night an is used a lot for purposes as diverse as spotting animals in the paddock, seeking out deadly snakes in crevices, working under dashboards of cars, looking for stuff in my storeroom shelves and even medical purposes - I did a small operation on my toe the other night by torchlight (strapped to my head).
That current daily use torch is a 2 x 123 Quark turbo (running 17670) and it's just a bit too new to have any real scratches or dings but then again, there are two fairly obvious gouge marks on the cooling fins where the rubber slipped from undeneath my multi grips while I was breaking the loctite seal on the head. I needed to open the head to shim the reflector out a bit to lessen the effect of the dark centre in the hotspot (which I needed to do to render the torch effective for my long distance outdoor use).
My emergency torch (read that as a torch to brightly spotlight a fox in amongst the sheep so I can shoot it, or on one occasion to spot an intruder out in my paddock) is a Led Lenser p17 (3 x D cell). It has the head jammed into the full long range spot setting by taping it there with about eight wraps of electrical insulating tape. I like tape, it's very working class and my old dad used to fix everything with electrical tape much to my mother's chagrin.
My backup torch is my old Led lenser p7 which I carried in a torch sleeve in my overalls leg for about a year until I spurned its love for the greener pastures of Quark Turbo land (well the QT is a bit smaller and has a clip you know). The old P7 has so many scratches and dings from slipping out of that sleeve pocket and hitting concrete that you'd think it lived through world war two. Thing is, it still out distances my Quark Turbo by a fair way and has never ever even flickered. Electrical tape on its head too, to hold it in the full long range setting - no floodlights here. I got total reliability from that P7 and I'm almost as fond of it as I am of the 4D Maglite that I carried from the early eighties until a couple of years ago.
I have no shelf queens but despite the fact that I drop torches all the time and have even thrown one once, I would never ever tailstand a torch - too easy to knock over. No sense in inviting trouble........
My daily use torch currently resides clipped in my top overalls pocket. It lives there day and night an is used a lot for purposes as diverse as spotting animals in the paddock, seeking out deadly snakes in crevices, working under dashboards of cars, looking for stuff in my storeroom shelves and even medical purposes - I did a small operation on my toe the other night by torchlight (strapped to my head).
That current daily use torch is a 2 x 123 Quark turbo (running 17670) and it's just a bit too new to have any real scratches or dings but then again, there are two fairly obvious gouge marks on the cooling fins where the rubber slipped from undeneath my multi grips while I was breaking the loctite seal on the head. I needed to open the head to shim the reflector out a bit to lessen the effect of the dark centre in the hotspot (which I needed to do to render the torch effective for my long distance outdoor use).
My emergency torch (read that as a torch to brightly spotlight a fox in amongst the sheep so I can shoot it, or on one occasion to spot an intruder out in my paddock) is a Led Lenser p17 (3 x D cell). It has the head jammed into the full long range spot setting by taping it there with about eight wraps of electrical insulating tape. I like tape, it's very working class and my old dad used to fix everything with electrical tape much to my mother's chagrin.
My backup torch is my old Led lenser p7 which I carried in a torch sleeve in my overalls leg for about a year until I spurned its love for the greener pastures of Quark Turbo land (well the QT is a bit smaller and has a clip you know). The old P7 has so many scratches and dings from slipping out of that sleeve pocket and hitting concrete that you'd think it lived through world war two. Thing is, it still out distances my Quark Turbo by a fair way and has never ever even flickered. Electrical tape on its head too, to hold it in the full long range setting - no floodlights here. I got total reliability from that P7 and I'm almost as fond of it as I am of the 4D Maglite that I carried from the early eighties until a couple of years ago.
I have no shelf queens but despite the fact that I drop torches all the time and have even thrown one once, I would never ever tailstand a torch - too easy to knock over. No sense in inviting trouble........
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