Flashaholic moment without power outage

Cataract · Sep 17, 2009

I joined this gemmology club and was grinding a stone yesterday, but I needed light and the overhead lamp had a defective switch. Well, I thought, this is why I'm carrying, isn't it? Got the Qaa out of the pouch and held it in my mouth while I was grinding my stone for 2 or 3 minutes. This girl who saw what I was doing asked "I wonder how you do that" I just replied that in my line of work I have to provide my own lighting since they usually install lights on the ceiling and not in between machines and I even showed her I had another light on me. She seemed a little impressed but not flashaholic enough to ask to see my other light.

Just wanted to share

davidt1 · Sep 17, 2009

I use my H501 all the time, sometimes several times a day. I clip it to my shirt angled down a little bit and use it to see my way from my room to the car every morning. Use it to read and do work around the house everyday. And of course, outside in the woods too.

Flying Turtle · Sep 17, 2009

It's always nice when those moments pop up when you really need that light in your pocket. Too few in my case.

Geoff

jimmy1970 · Sep 18, 2009

A friend of mine (mechanic) came around last night at 6.30pm (dark) to help with a radiator replacement/major service for my Mitsubishi Magna wagon.

My 6P/Malkoff M60 on AW ICR123's was run for around 1.5 hours and performed perfectly. I did have to switch cells at around 45 minutes but the Malkoff did the job nicely.

The light was also much brighter (more useful) than the 'professional' Snap On multi 5mm led light my mechanic mate had ($300 light!!!)

He had another smaller multi led Snap-On light he purchased for $200.00.

One of the led's stopped working. Snap-On said that the led's are not covered by the warranty!!:shakehead

Professional mechanics don't mind paying top dollar for 'professional' quality tools but rarely do they get anywhere near the quality with their flashlights that we enjoy here at CPF.

James...

jp2515 · Sep 19, 2009

jimmy1970 said:
A friend of mine (mechanic) came around last night at 6.30pm (dark) to help with a radiator replacement/major service for my Mitsubishi Magna wagon.

My 6P/Malkoff M60 on AW ICR123's was run for around 1.5 hours and performed perfectly. I did have to switch cells at around 45 minutes but the Malkoff did the job nicely.

The light was also much brighter (more useful) than the 'professional' Snap On multi 5mm led light my mechanic mate had ($300 light!!!)

He had another smaller multi led Snap-On light he purchased for $200.00.

One of the led's stopped working. Snap-On said that the led's are not covered by the warranty!!:shakehead

Professional mechanics don't mind paying top dollar for 'professional' quality tools but rarely do they get anywhere near the quality with their flashlights that we enjoy here at CPF.

James...

$200 & $300 Snap On lights with the LED NOT covered under warranty? That's just wrong.

:shakehead

oo:

ducat · Sep 19, 2009

I work as a concierge in a gated development in Maidstone, Kent. part of my duties involves escorting meter readers into some very dark places to read electricity meters. I carry a Fenix TK11 R2 as my EDC, and the usual response is, once they get their eyesight back, "Where can I buy one of those?"

zipplet · Sep 19, 2009

I used to get similiar responses when I worked in food retail. Upstairs the lighting was poor and many a time the lights in the walk-in freezer didn't work. Colleagues were always amazed at how much light a tiny Fenix L0D-CE (my EDC for work at the time) put out and asked where I got it

Ducat: Hi, nice to see another CPF'er from around my parts (I live pretty close to maidstone).

KiwiMark · Sep 19, 2009

jp2515 said:
$200 & $300 Snap On lights with the LED NOT covered under warranty?:shakehead oo:

From the description it doesn't sound like they are $200 & $300 lights - no matter what the mechanic actually paid for them.

There are so many good LED lights for under $100 that would outdo the multi LED torches that the mechanic overpaid for. Someone needs to introduce him to Jetbeam, Nitecore, Olight, Quark, etc.

ducat · Sep 19, 2009

Hi Zipplet, nice to make your acquaintance!:twothumbs

Flashaholic moment without power outage

Cataract

Flashlight Enthusiast

davidt1

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Flying Turtle

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jimmy1970

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jp2515

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ducat

Newly Enlightened

zipplet

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KiwiMark

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ducat

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