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RESTORATION COMPLETE!!! SEE POST #84
MORE PHOTOS ADDED - POST #36 - I FOUND THE OTHER BATTERY AND THE REST OF THE KL1
11/29/09 *******PUT BACK INTO DUTY!!! SEE POST 123 --- 11/29/09
Yes, you read correctly. E2e w/KL1 FIRE!!!
But NOT exploding batteries...
Let me see if I can tell the whole story...
Two days before Christmas, my youngest teenage son comes in and tells me he has lost his flashlight. The light he has lost, is the E2e w/KL1 head I had given him for Christmas the previous year. Two days short of having it a year. Well, he retraced all his steps and searched pretty hard for it even going so far as to riding the lawn mower around looking on the side of the road where he had walked to a friends. We called all the places he had visited that day, you know, all we could do and no luck. Well, I didn't grieve over it or even reprimand him(Don't judge me, you hypocrite. You get attached to the stupid lights as well). It was his light. I gave up my "relationship" with it when I gave it to him on Christmas '06. I thought it might turn up wet and muddy or someone would find a great light they would never be able to get batteries for because the hole at the tailcap was to little or they just wouldn't know what they were..
Fast forward to Saturday night....
My son runs into a cousin of his at Walmart and he tells him he thinks they found his light at my uncles garage where Nathan works from time to time. We go down there tonight after church and out back in a pile of ashes, is what you see before you..
So what had happened... Friday my uncle was welding some metal over head for a new lift he had installed and some sparks caught a box on fire. They rushed the box out the back door and just let it burn... The next morning, what should be laying in the gravel but the sad remains you see before you. My son had been there two days before Christmas just to say hello, but had not worked. He had climbed and retrieved something for my uncle, and it would seem that that is when the light was dropped or fell from his pants pocket into a box of junk of other used smaller boxes from around the garage and this was the box set on fire Friday when they were welding.. They just packed it outside, they didn't know anything of value was in it..
The ring you see is all that is left of the KL1 head, you can identify the body, tailcap parts and the only battery that was left. We scoured the ashes for any other remains of the head, but found none. I thought for sure there would be more parts but there are not...
And here it is.. Some of the saddest photos I have ever had the privelege of taking: (And I know how much you flashaholics like pics)
PS: You think Surefire can fix that KL1 head
....
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MORE PHOTOS ADDED - POST #36 - I FOUND THE OTHER BATTERY AND THE REST OF THE KL1
11/29/09 *******PUT BACK INTO DUTY!!! SEE POST 123 --- 11/29/09
Yes, you read correctly. E2e w/KL1 FIRE!!!
But NOT exploding batteries...
Let me see if I can tell the whole story...
Two days before Christmas, my youngest teenage son comes in and tells me he has lost his flashlight. The light he has lost, is the E2e w/KL1 head I had given him for Christmas the previous year. Two days short of having it a year. Well, he retraced all his steps and searched pretty hard for it even going so far as to riding the lawn mower around looking on the side of the road where he had walked to a friends. We called all the places he had visited that day, you know, all we could do and no luck. Well, I didn't grieve over it or even reprimand him(Don't judge me, you hypocrite. You get attached to the stupid lights as well). It was his light. I gave up my "relationship" with it when I gave it to him on Christmas '06. I thought it might turn up wet and muddy or someone would find a great light they would never be able to get batteries for because the hole at the tailcap was to little or they just wouldn't know what they were..
Fast forward to Saturday night....
My son runs into a cousin of his at Walmart and he tells him he thinks they found his light at my uncles garage where Nathan works from time to time. We go down there tonight after church and out back in a pile of ashes, is what you see before you..
So what had happened... Friday my uncle was welding some metal over head for a new lift he had installed and some sparks caught a box on fire. They rushed the box out the back door and just let it burn... The next morning, what should be laying in the gravel but the sad remains you see before you. My son had been there two days before Christmas just to say hello, but had not worked. He had climbed and retrieved something for my uncle, and it would seem that that is when the light was dropped or fell from his pants pocket into a box of junk of other used smaller boxes from around the garage and this was the box set on fire Friday when they were welding.. They just packed it outside, they didn't know anything of value was in it..
The ring you see is all that is left of the KL1 head, you can identify the body, tailcap parts and the only battery that was left. We scoured the ashes for any other remains of the head, but found none. I thought for sure there would be more parts but there are not...
And here it is.. Some of the saddest photos I have ever had the privelege of taking: (And I know how much you flashaholics like pics)
PS: You think Surefire can fix that KL1 head
....
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