The con ed guy just came....
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diff_lock2
Newly Enlightened
What was he carrying?
jkdguy
Newly Enlightened
...then he pulled out the brand new, yet to be released, Fenix TK40!
NonSenCe
Flashlight Enthusiast
HAH!
no wonders! it is an odd question. to many people.
and here:
sewage guy came today to empty the tanks at my parents house.
i was shoveling snow as the truck arrived, and started its business, soon my dad went in my car and picked my maglite with terralux drop-in to show the sewage man some light while the he was working.
1. my dad knows i have lights in my car. and/or my person.
2. he felt sorry for the guy trying to see something with such an weak light.
very dim small plastic 2aa light, i was told.
both were in awe of the power of the 2d mag with led.
(gonna give the mag to my dad as a present later, just testing it 1st myself)
every little helps to spread the gospel of light.
new enlightened people always welcome.
im starting to believe..
and my dad is well on his way
and hope the sevage dude also learned something.. if not anything else: have spare batteries!
no wonders! it is an odd question. to many people.
and here:
sewage guy came today to empty the tanks at my parents house.
i was shoveling snow as the truck arrived, and started its business, soon my dad went in my car and picked my maglite with terralux drop-in to show the sewage man some light while the he was working.
1. my dad knows i have lights in my car. and/or my person.
2. he felt sorry for the guy trying to see something with such an weak light.
very dim small plastic 2aa light, i was told.
both were in awe of the power of the 2d mag with led.
(gonna give the mag to my dad as a present later, just testing it 1st myself)
every little helps to spread the gospel of light.
new enlightened people always welcome.
im starting to believe..
and my dad is well on his way
and hope the sevage dude also learned something.. if not anything else: have spare batteries!
Well.... the exterminator came in and started do his inspection with his longer than foot-long Mclight.
I was like, you're not gonna beat people with that light, do you?
He said, Not me, but police is doing that. I beat bugs and my boss with this light.
Cool guy he was.
I was like, you're not gonna beat people with that light, do you?
He said, Not me, but police is doing that. I beat bugs and my boss with this light.
Cool guy he was.
Backpacker Light
Enlightened
Oh my God, I thought you were going to say your Dad dropped the light into the septic tank,
and you had a difficult decision to make...............do I go in after it?
No wait, you were lucky, it was only a Maglite.
NonSenCe
Flashlight Enthusiast
HAh. that would of posed a dilemma.
make my dad go get it, or try to pick it out myself.
but i got magnets too! and superglue and long sticks. hehhe.
so yeah anyways i would of had it picked up back into the light of day somehow.
yeah its just maglite, and it shoudlnt of taken offence for getting dumped in there. cant be worst things mags have endured.
but its my second maglite ever. -only minimag b4.
so i might of missed it. even if it was meant as a present.
but i have had it only for 6 days now.
so havent really gotten fond of it yet.. the uk´s and fenix different story.
-knowing my dads clumsy hands, now that i think of it, it was actually a high probability that it would of gotten dropped. hah.
but thats the reason i got the maglite: as beater light that can take the sh*t! HAHAH
make my dad go get it, or try to pick it out myself.
but i got magnets too! and superglue and long sticks. hehhe.
so yeah anyways i would of had it picked up back into the light of day somehow.
yeah its just maglite, and it shoudlnt of taken offence for getting dumped in there. cant be worst things mags have endured.
but its my second maglite ever. -only minimag b4.
so i might of missed it. even if it was meant as a present.
but i have had it only for 6 days now.
so havent really gotten fond of it yet.. the uk´s and fenix different story.
-knowing my dads clumsy hands, now that i think of it, it was actually a high probability that it would of gotten dropped. hah.
but thats the reason i got the maglite: as beater light that can take the sh*t! HAHAH
GarageBoy
Flashlight Enthusiast
The MTA uses Pelican incan 2XD lights
Backpacker Light
Enlightened
Great story, it caught my eye because I had already recently made a mental note about the need to pump my septic tank out soon. I try to do it every 5-6 years, and I noticed that 8 years had somehow flew by with no pumpout.
But up here in New York (on the southern shore of Lake Ontario) I think I need to wait about another couple months for the ground to thaw a little, so that I can get at the tank covers. It's been a hell of a winter so far, and I have been doing more ice fishing than camping.
I always am taking note of what type flashlights these professionals are using. The electric and gas utility meter readers, the cable guy, etc.
I was pleasantly surprised though, when my local garage mechanic recently pulled out a Inova X-5 when we were investigating a strange noise in the dark parking lot. Wow, what a perfect light for a car mechanic to use. Bright white flood, almost indestructable, and long battery life. I was surprised, and complemented him on his choice of lights, and he immediately told me how much he loved that light.
Maybe the public non-flashaholic types are finally catching up to is available out there.
jzmtl
Flashlight Enthusiast
As long as we are on the note of what light does people use, the guys in bus terminal (in building basement) use magcharger with red traffic cone, decent for the job I guess.
Sgt. LED
Flashaholic
Septic tank fishing eh'?
Catch ya' some big brown flashlights I bet! :sick2:
Oh I know I would of went after one of mine if it got dropped in!
Catch ya' some big brown flashlights I bet! :sick2:
Oh I know I would of went after one of mine if it got dropped in!
Daekar
Enlightened
Me too, and I am almost always disappointed. Even the police and security guards around here carry lousy lights. Ironically, I think the average hunter around here is better equipped than the average professional who uses their light 50 times more frequently.
Yes, it's nice when you find people that appreciate the finer things! As far as the non-flashaholic types catching up... I'm afraid I haven't seen any evidence of that.
Two examples spring to mind just from the past week: First, I was speaking to one of the guys in the amp development lab (they develop and build the amplifiers that drive our electric motors) about finding some very very small 2-pin connectors for a light. Along the way he lamented the fact that the Maglite brand LED dropins were so expensive relative to the incan light. I mentioned how much my EDC cost and what kind of performance my HID gets, etc, and his eyes goggled. Seems he thinks that it's ridiculous to pay $20 for a light, let alone $200...Then there is my cousin. She's headed down to Central America for a short mission trip (apparently whichever city they're going to is reputed to be the homicide or kidnapping capital of the world, or some such lovely thing...), and mentioned that she had been buying things to prepare. Among them she mentioned a maglite - she wasn't sure exactly what kind of batteries it took, how many, or exactly what name besides maglite was on the package, but she did know that it was blue to match her backpack!
Turns out it was a minimag. My cousin is not an unintelligent person, quite the opposite, but she thought that a krypton bulb sounded like it was going to be pretty darn bright! I would have just bought her a new light to take, but she mentioned that she wasn't supposed to take anything which it would be problematic to have stolen. :duh2: I thought about it for a little while, and decided to send her my D-mini with OP reflector, 7 Surefire cells (that's one for each day she'll be there), my Fenix E01, 2 alkaline AAAs, and 4 little coin-lights... and instructions... lol. Hopefully she'll see the light... and if she does, that means it will be easy to choose a Christmas or birthday present for her at least once. Backpacker Light
Enlightened
Oh no! I just had the image of how similiar it is to be sitting over a hole drilled in the ice while ice fishing, and what you just described as "septic tank fishing"!!
I'm pretty sure I would quickly declare any flashlight I dropped into the tank as "lost" forever (good time to use a lanyard?).
american lockpicker
Enlightened
Once a guy came to my house to install cable. He had a "Harbor Freight Special" LED light that had a purple beam and didn't work so I lent him a 3d Maglite. Other lights I've seen used by people are MiniMaglites and I cop I know carries a Smith and Wesson flashlight, Magcharger and Streamlight on his M&P.
Big_Ed
Flashlight Enthusiast
I was working in a building a while back, and one of the elevators was being repaired by a technician. He was working at the bottom of the shaft with the door open(about 8 feet below where I was standing) and trying to look at some parts or cables or something. He was using a stock MiniMag, and I could tell he was straining to see what he was looking at. I said, "You need a brighter flashlight!", and pulled out my Surefire L4 and lit up his whole area. He said, "Holy $#!+, than thing is bright. What did that thing cost?" When I told him how much, he was shocked. So then I informed him that he needn't spend that that much on a light to get a brighter one, and if he really liked his MiniMag, he could get an LED version that was much brighter than his old one for not too much money. He said he'd check into it. I wonder if he ever did.
Lightcrazycanuck
Banned
HAH!
no wonders! it is an odd question. to many people.
and here:
sewage guy came today to empty the tanks at my parents house.
i was shoveling snow as the truck arrived, and started its business, soon my dad went in my car and picked my maglite with terralux drop-in to show the sewage man some light while the he was working.
1. my dad knows i have lights in my car. and/or my person.
2. he felt sorry for the guy trying to see something with such an weak light.
very dim small plastic 2aa light, i was told.
both were in awe of the power of the 2d mag with led.
(gonna give the mag to my dad as a present later, just testing it 1st myself)
every little helps to spread the gospel of light.
new enlightened people always welcome.
im starting to believe..
and my dad is well on his way
and hope the sevage dude also learned something.. if not anything else: have spare batteries!
This reminds me of a scene in the Movie Slumdog Millionaire.:laughing::laughing::laughing:
