Tektite flashlights on The Discovery Channel

I just saw the program "How It's Made" on The Discovery Channel, and one of the segments showed how flashlights were made. Not just any old flashlights, but Tektite flashlights! :thumbsup:

They only showed how their LED flashlights were constructed (both plastic and metal barrel ones), not incandescent.

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Got any info on when it may be rerun?!

MSax

There are two different episodes on at 7 and 7:30 pm (eastern time) this evening. Neither one lists flashlights on the "info" but they never list everything so it could be on one of these. I hope it's the 7:00 episode, the Red Wings play at 7:30! :twothumbs

The only information I have on the episode is this:



As you can see, it's Episode 42.

Holy crap! I saw that episode, but had to go back to work after he frozen fish..... I just missed the flashlight portion.

Dang it!!! oo:

MSax

I saw that one last year, and recorded it on my DVD recorder. Neat to see. I wish John Ratsenberger would tour a flashlight factory on his show "Made in America" That would be really cool.

Big_Ed said:

I saw that one last year, and recorded it on my DVD recorder. Neat to see. I wish John Ratsenberger would tour a flashlight factory on his show "Made in America" That would be really cool.

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Maybe even Pelican!

I caught that episode also. It was nicely done, although a little rushed.

found it on youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x2LxTmVM_g

Those LED arrays are hand soldered!!?? yikes

to kramer5150 --


Thank You for that link !

:twothumbs

:goodjob:
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Kramer5150,Thanks, I was always missing that show.

Kramer 5150,

I really enjoyed watching the video link.

Thank you for posting. :thumbsup:

dm

Many thanks for the video link, too; It's been a problem figuring out when the episode next airs, and getting it up on our website...

...And yes, we hand solder every LED to ensure correct placement and aim. As you can see, we also hand assemble each one. The aluminum light is an Expedition LS4, currently running a P4 @ 200 lumens.

If you are going to be in the Trenton, NJ area, feel free to call ahead for a tour; we're not making every product, every day, but you can see what's on the menu if you visit.

If you want to see some fun testing, check out our "Tank test" on youtube>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vf09Lolfwk&eurl=http://www.tek-tite.com/info/news.php

Scott

That was a great video! Very interesting.

I'm in South Jersey, I'd love a tour if I'm inTrenton!!

I saw this a year ago as well, very cool. I've always wished they would do LED's -themselves- though on How It's Made ever since seeing that episode. Maybe they could take a trip out to one of Cree's factories...

Seems really wasteful that most of the bar stock is cut away and end up in trash.

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(like the old cartoons, which show a log entering one end of a machine, and a single toothpick exits the other end)


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Funny you said that, in the related video there's one on how toothpicks are made, from a log!

jzmtl said:

Seems really wasteful that most of the bar stock is cut away and end up in trash.

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Well, as an environmentally concerned company (see link to our policy below), we would NOT throw away all that aluminum, especially at today's prices!! We have a scrap company come by whenever the scrap bin is full. The extra money goes into the company coffee/snack fund, and the scrap goes into new aluminum.

The same thing happens with most of our plastic scrap, too, except we re-use most of it in-house for molding other items.

For a business our size, we have a very low trash stream, less than 1 cubic yard a week.

http://www.tek-tite.com/home/usa.php