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maybe we will see a photobook in future...</font>
Asides from the Torch Reviews Site, I also have a
site that set out to exhibit my other collections of light bulbs, festive lights, electrical accessories and of course flashlights. That site never really got past the initial release showing a few of the light bulbs. It has been a long term goal of mine to overhaul and expand "The Bulb Museum" and finally exhibit more of my collection. One of the sections will be a feature-galley of Arc flashlights, since they are/were one of my favorite manufacturers and I have a lot of their lights.
Anyways, an Arc "picture-book" may not be as far off as you think. The following are some of the photos I have already taken.The site is far from ready but now seems like a good time to show some of these.
Rare and obscure Arc Flashlights.
Brass AAA. One of only 8, originally sold as a CPF benefit on Ebay and Yahoo auctions.
2002 CPF Edition. Sold almost exclusively to CPF members with optional engraving, one of 120 made.
AA lug tail/green anodise. Around 15 sold, an experimental design that looked too much like the CMG Infinity Ultra.
Arc4 Forensic Kit. Specialist kit with Dental Blue LED and a pair of orange filter goggles. Not sure exactly how many were sold.
LS1 Rev.2 Cyan. As far as I know this is the only factory-produced Rev.2 with a coloured LED.
LS3. Underdriven 5-watt LED. Only 30 of these sold, very expensive and many had poor tints.
And although these two were never publically avaliable, they are still well worth a mention:
AAA prototype. One of 12 hand made prototypes, of which around 8 passed QC and were sent out to reviewers, etc.
...and a closer look of the hand-made head:
LS Prototype. It is likely that only two of these still exist, the other is in Seattle WA.
There are many other rare Arcs such as the AA-RGB (havn`t photgraphed mine yet), one or two of the coloured LS1s (wasn`t there only ever one red or green LS1 made?), the AAA-Infra-Red, and the Version 1 AAAs with the "elastic band" gasket thingy around the base of the head. Even the presentation tin for the Arc4. All things which I would dearly love to find, but now suspect that task to be pretty impossible.
As I said, these photos along with the rest of my Arc collection will eventually exhibit at "The Bulb Museum" site, sometime off in the future....
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