chillinn
Flashlight Enthusiast
What I have gathered is Surefire no longer supports any incandescent flashlights, and that there are alternatives in most cases for running incan lamps, at least for the time being.
What I am curious about is the existing Surefire lamp stocks out there... that stock seems be stretching longer than one would expect... more than a few years...
Is it true that these lamps were only manufactured by Surefire, and Surefire shut down their incan lamp assembly factory, and no new Surefire incan replacement assemblies have been manufactured since xxx date?
Or is it possible after developing and designing their famous lamp assemblies, Surefire outsourced the lamp manufacturing at some point, and while Surefire labelled lamp stocks may have run out, some third party manufacturing is basically selling the same lamps to replentish retail stocks?
And this is to support the vast existing reserves of incan flashlights still in military use?
Or is that fantasy and the NOS Surefire lamp assemblies are about to completely run dry, any month now... thus we can expect prices on remaining NOS Surefire label lamps to skyrocket... ?
Does anyone actually have the story about what Surefire did internally with their massive change in manufacturing? Just disassembled the machinery, sold off the factory, and fired the workers? What exactly happened, and when?
What I am curious about is the existing Surefire lamp stocks out there... that stock seems be stretching longer than one would expect... more than a few years...
Is it true that these lamps were only manufactured by Surefire, and Surefire shut down their incan lamp assembly factory, and no new Surefire incan replacement assemblies have been manufactured since xxx date?
Or is it possible after developing and designing their famous lamp assemblies, Surefire outsourced the lamp manufacturing at some point, and while Surefire labelled lamp stocks may have run out, some third party manufacturing is basically selling the same lamps to replentish retail stocks?
And this is to support the vast existing reserves of incan flashlights still in military use?
Or is that fantasy and the NOS Surefire lamp assemblies are about to completely run dry, any month now... thus we can expect prices on remaining NOS Surefire label lamps to skyrocket... ?
Does anyone actually have the story about what Surefire did internally with their massive change in manufacturing? Just disassembled the machinery, sold off the factory, and fired the workers? What exactly happened, and when?