What did you use your flashlight for today?

[gurdygurds]

Not used yet. But hiking and waiting for darkness.

 

[Monocrom]

Copy/Fax machine at work crapped out on me.
Misleading instructions popped up on the tiny square electronic window display for how to clear the paper jam. Never cleared one on this particular machine. I'm opening up panels, I can't see .

Out comes my Powertac Sabre 2AAA penlight on its highest setting. I see the paper, after practically yanking everything out of the darn machine. Cleared the jam. Back to business as usual.

 

[bluflaam777]

Copy/fax/printer ...the bane of the office.

 

[Jean-Luc Descarte]

Copy/fax/printer ...the bane of the office.

Painfully true.

 

[Poppy]

This weekend I went camping with a large group of people. There was a four pack of duracell flashlights that had two leds, one larger and one smaller in the same reflector. One would give a flood, the other a spot, and together a flood with a hot spot. I thought it would be interesting. When I opened it up I discovered that it was powered by 4 AAA batteries. It wasn't long before they were only outputting moon-light.

During cleanup after dinner, I loaned my Sofirn D25L to assist the dishwasher, and placed my ryobi 18V P781 lantern nearby. I also used and loaned out my Convoy S2+ a number of times. I had a Convoy C8 and a Sofirn SP36 on hand, but didn't need them.

 

[cerbie]

I think qualifies as one of the more novel cases. At my company's main office, it's mostly tech and finance people, which means lots of coffee is imbibed. I was at one of our other offices, today, where this is much less so, and wanted to buffer mine with a little dairy. You know how people like to fill things up, before they're empty, to keep up appearances? That's the case with the little half&half cups, on the counter. But, this office doesn't use enough of them, so keeping the little caddy full means spoiled ones are in the mix. As well, they're still using fluorescent tubes, and poor tint low-CRI ones, at that. So, I used my EDC to shine into each open thimble cup, to check for coagulation and separation.

 

[Jean-Luc Descarte]

I think qualifies as one of the more novel cases. At my company's main office, it's mostly tech and finance people, which means lots of coffee is imbibed. I was at one of our other offices, today, where this is much less so, and wanted to buffer mine with a little dairy. You know how people like to fill things up, before they're empty, to keep up appearances? That's the case with the little half&half cups, on the counter. But, this office doesn't use enough of them, so keeping the little caddy full means spoiled ones are in the mix. As well, they're still using fluorescent tubes, and poor tint low-CRI ones, at that. So, I used my EDC to shine into each open thimble cup, to check for coagulation and separation.

That's disgusting I'd carry my own cup and never let it out of my sight.

 

[Monocrom]

Thermos full of coffee made at home. Just saying'....

 

[desert.snake]

A bottle of wine slipped from a friend's hands and fell on a table covered with tempered glass. The glass cracked. The table was taken out onto the balcony to clean it. The ceiling lights should work there, they have always worked for the last 7 years, today they did not want to work. Had to use Petzl on my head and press Fenix FD40 with a door spring to illuminate the cleaning area. Malkoff MDC was also used for lighting, so that later all the glass fragments could be removed from the floor. Don't believe those who say that tempered glass shards don't scratch, they scratch very well, it's just that the wounds are not penetrating, but scalped. I removed a strip of skin 1*1*7 mm, everything has already healed. Also, small shards of tempered glass, which are set on a strong silicone sealant, when you try to scrape them off, break into smaller pieces and fly into your eyes

 

[Monocrom]

Night before last, pull into the parking lot at my 3rd shift job.... Pitch Black! The entire South end of the massive lot. Those overheads aren't supposed to be off until nearly 7am. Whip out my Acebeam P16 Limited Edition Defender model. Do the outside gate checks. I'm at one end of the massive lot. Decide to see if I can hit the other end with my flashlight on Turbo. Amazingly, yes! It's not a LEP, but it's as good as you can get with a reasonably sized LED flashlight clearly geared for throw that acts as one.

And, on that night, it was needed. Used it outside while I was on the South end of the lot. Ironically, the previous night, my Acebeam let me down. I must have accidentally hit the mode select switch on the tailcap as I was pulling it out to use. I got strobe instead of Turbo, and no matter what I did, all I got was strobe. Wasn't until I pulled the batteries out and reinserted them that the light decided to behave properly. I mean, it looks like a full-blown Tactical light. But it definitely isn't. Anyway, the next night, the P16 redeemed itself.

 

[Jean-Luc Descarte]

Any idea why the overheads were out? If I saw that on the way in, I'd be expecting tripped breakers or some other form of power outage.

 

[desert.snake]

The mouse wheel on the Razer has been bothering me for the last few years. It skips 2-3 lines (should be 1 turn of the wheel = 1 line), sometimes it skips not up, but in the other direction and vice versa. In the end, I got tired of it. I took it apart. The scrolling mechanism is made like the HDS, but if they were evil twins from a parallel universe. The mechanism is not protected from dust, hair, dried dust-fat mixture from above, and it was not pressed down enough from the factory and dangled. I cleaned it, and during assembly I found another reason why the mouse sometimes refused to work - the sharp leg of the switch was long and pierced the wire that lay in the channel under it. I ran it from above, had to remove several decorative bulkheads. There is a petzl on the head again, for the photo I use SF A2

 

[Fuzzywuzzies]

The mouse wheel on the Razer has been bothering me for the last few years. It skips 2-3 lines (should be 1 turn of the wheel = 1 line), sometimes it skips not up, but in the other direction and vice versa. In the end, I got tired of it. I took it apart. The scrolling mechanism is made like the HDS, but if they were evil twins from a parallel universe. The mechanism is not protected from dust, hair, dried dust-fat mixture from above, and it was not pressed down enough from the factory and dangled. I cleaned it, and during assembly I found another reason why the mouse sometimes refused to work - the sharp leg of the switch was long and pierced the wire that lay in the channel under it. I ran it from above, had to remove several decorative bulkheads. There is a petzl on the head again, for the photo I use SF A2

Well done! Nice to see a device being repaired instead of just thrown away, too.

 

[desert.snake]

Well done! Nice to see a device being repaired instead of just thrown away, too.

I have all my broken mice in my desk, if I find the right microswitches they will work again. I almost never throw anything away, so my wife throws a fit, saying the house is turning into a dump

 

[desert.snake]

My friend and I went duck hunting, headlamps are very helpful. My friend has a LEP Thor, we thought it was more of a toy than a flashlight because of the narrow beam, but it scares ducks perfectly. You shine the light on the bushes, they get scared and fly up, which allows you to quickly pick them up from the ground or determine whether they are there or not without using expensive thermal imagers

 

[Monocrom]

So this was earlier in the week. We have a separate floor fan that doesn't stand too proud (tall). Along with a floor heater slightly lower in height. I swear, my co-workers must be demons from Hell disguised as human-beings. Just past mid-September and they're already showing up bundled up in very thick Winter coats. Putting the heater right up to themselves at the desk. And, apparently, no clue how to switch off the fan! In Summer, Management thinks there's no reason to leave the AC on after the Sun goes down. After all, only security personnel are there. They're not human-beings, right?

So, we NEED that fan. My co-workers like to slam the head of the fan downwards so that it blows air at the ground. Not joking! It would seriously be much easier just to turn the thing off. But keep in mind we're dealing with the type of "geniuses" who have no clue how to put a radio on a charger, and no clue how a bookmark works. Well, besides putting wear and tear on the fan, they managed to finally loosen the base that holds the fan-blades securely in place so that they don't vibrate violently as they spin. Heard an awful crunching sound after I carefully raised the head of the fan back to its proper position. Took the front apart. Tried fixing it.

Finally after using both my Powertac Sabre 2AAA penlight on high mode, and then my Acebeam P16 Defender on Turbo (yes, up close) I realized the base behind the fan-blades had loosened completely! It didn't fall off because it literally couldn't. Being sandwiched in-between the blades and the very back of the fan. So, reached in after making sure everything was switched off. Very carefully with one hand, got into that very tight spot, and screwed the base slowly until it was as tight as it would go. Afterwards, fan worked without issue.

Seriously, when I started working in security, Day 1 it took me literally 3 seconds to figure out how to put a radio onto a charger. I work with guys who have been there at the client's site for months! They still can't figure it out. It amazes me that they're even able to dress themselves.

 

[desert.snake]

I have a couple of cold guys at work, and now I'm cold too, so we put a heater on and point a fan at it to circulate warm air around the room. But I don't really understand what your guys are doing. Can't they really press the button on the fan itself?

 

[Monocrom]

I have a couple of cold guys at work, and now I'm cold too, so we put a heater on and point a fan at it to circulate warm air around the room. But I don't really understand what your guys are doing. Can't they really press the button on the fan itself?
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Oh, there's no button on that model at work.
Just a nob that moves in a semi-circle.
Clearly labeled 0321.
Give you one guess what fan-speed you get on "0."
Yeah, that's apparently too hard for my co-workers to understand.

 

[desert.snake]

Could circle the number 0 with a marker and add the letters ff to the right and see if that works?
Here, next to each light switch, there is a piece of paper with arrows and the words on/off, and next to each socket, there is a piece of paper indicating that this socket is for so many volts. There are even signs on the doors telling you to push it towards you or away from you, and this doesn't always help

 

[Monocrom]

Could circle the number 0 with a marker and add the letters ff to the right and see if that works?

Sadly, not possible since the "3" is directly to the right of the "0."