keithhr
Flashlight Enthusiast
I joined these forums while it was still a small community of like minded friendly people. If you made a deal with somebody
people usually sent the item to the other person before you got payment because there was a high level of trust. The reason
I am posting today is, way back then , the standard for an edc light was still Surefire, their little nylon based 60 lumen light.
Today, I just received two Olight S10R Baton II lights which have three brightness settings, a side mounted switch with its
own little micro stand charger combo. Back then to have a light that would approach 400-500 lumens wasn't even a dream, and
nobody used led's for anything but the flashlight inventor designer. Maglite was the major player that competed with the dramers
here by trying to sue everybody that posed a threat, out of existence. They were the most despised flashlight company of all time.
They thought they could rest on their laurels, but they weren't aware that they actually didn't have any. Back in the day, Police
used them because they made convenient clubs that doubled as really poor flashlights. Some of the enterprising folks here stripped
out the entire innards from the maglites and put in what ever higher powered bulbs, or mostly led's because the mag reflector was
pretty good at that point in time. Most of the inventors did custom runs and got people to commit to buy one based on faith. Every
once in a while a scam artist would slip into our midst and offer a light which never came to pass in reality. People who lived nearby
would go by where they lived and see what was up. I would be surprised if anybody here remembered this sad scenario.
Mostly I am here today because after spending several years here compelled, like most, to visit several times a day, just to make
sure we didn't miss anything. It was an absolute addiction and we all knew it but didn't care. Now there are so many spectacular performing
lights that in the last few years I have bought some of them, just because I knew that with my latest purchase I could shine my new light
at a street lamp and force it to turn itself off because its sensor told it that daylight had come.
It was nice to have a place to come and remember the good old days, thanks
people usually sent the item to the other person before you got payment because there was a high level of trust. The reason
I am posting today is, way back then , the standard for an edc light was still Surefire, their little nylon based 60 lumen light.
Today, I just received two Olight S10R Baton II lights which have three brightness settings, a side mounted switch with its
own little micro stand charger combo. Back then to have a light that would approach 400-500 lumens wasn't even a dream, and
nobody used led's for anything but the flashlight inventor designer. Maglite was the major player that competed with the dramers
here by trying to sue everybody that posed a threat, out of existence. They were the most despised flashlight company of all time.
They thought they could rest on their laurels, but they weren't aware that they actually didn't have any. Back in the day, Police
used them because they made convenient clubs that doubled as really poor flashlights. Some of the enterprising folks here stripped
out the entire innards from the maglites and put in what ever higher powered bulbs, or mostly led's because the mag reflector was
pretty good at that point in time. Most of the inventors did custom runs and got people to commit to buy one based on faith. Every
once in a while a scam artist would slip into our midst and offer a light which never came to pass in reality. People who lived nearby
would go by where they lived and see what was up. I would be surprised if anybody here remembered this sad scenario.
Mostly I am here today because after spending several years here compelled, like most, to visit several times a day, just to make
sure we didn't miss anything. It was an absolute addiction and we all knew it but didn't care. Now there are so many spectacular performing
lights that in the last few years I have bought some of them, just because I knew that with my latest purchase I could shine my new light
at a street lamp and force it to turn itself off because its sensor told it that daylight had come.
It was nice to have a place to come and remember the good old days, thanks