Carpe Diem
Flashlight Enthusiast
Among all of the CPF`ers, I consider myself to be the "poster child" for the technologically challenged.
I mean, some of you guys have the uncanny ability to take an emitter and a blank metal tube, and then using nothing but your bare hands can create a beautiful flashlight within a matter of minutes. Me...? I`m at the absolute other end of the spectrum.
BUT...as they say, "Even a blind pig can find the trough every once in a while."
There I was, late last night, playing with an HA (Yes! HA!) McLux that Don "Mcgizmo" had been kind enough to send my way. This light, I thought to myself, was certainly worth the $1,250 that I had to pay to Don to get it...autographed by him, and all.
But WHOA...! What`s this? The Kroll switch was starting to act up. It didn`t stay on all the time when I pushed the "clickie" hidden and protected in the guard of the McLux.
I started to panic...as persons at my end of the spectrum are want to do. "What the hell am I going to do now," I thought to myself.
I knew that if I couldn`t get the McLux to work right, its value would plummet to a mere $1,125.00...the value commanded by Don`s autograph (at least that was the value given by Don, and he should certainly know best).
I immediately started to send another email to Don...this time for help to fix the clickie. (I had been emailing him earlier in the evening... giving him information about the criminal penalties for mail fraud, a topic that Don, for some reason, has been pretty preoccupied with lately.)
I needed Don`s advice on how to get at the Kroll switch, so that I could make at least a feeble attempt myself to get it working right again. The way the McLux is constructed, you see, you can`t easily unscrew the Kroll switch because of the way its protected by the switch guard.
Well...anyway...just as I was getting ready to send the frantic email plea for help out to Don, I happened to look at a rather large, and forlorn, pile of flashlights that was on the floor by my computer. (These were some flashlights that I`ve purchased over the years, but for a variety of reasons were now rarely, if ever, used by me...having been replaced by other "nicer" flashlights.)
There it was...right by a couple of prehistoric 4D M*gs... a CMG Infinity!
A dim light went on in my technologically challenged head. "Why don`t I try to use the 1AA battery pack of the Infinity," I thought to myself, "as a tool to screw out and remove the clickie!"
I quickly took the CMG apart and removed the battery (I knew how to do that), and then ever so carefully inserted the empty CMG battery pack into the McLux guard and over the rubber tip of the Kroll switch.
AND THEN...now here comes the good part...I successfully unscrewed and removed the clickie... and then reinstalled the clickie back into the McLux the very same way!
The McLux now works perfectly again. It turned out that the Kroll switch was just a little loose...but I tightened it with my CMG!
I celebrated long into the night...constantly clicking my now tightened Kroll switch on and off, and at the same time researching for Don (and also apparently for Darell) what countries one could flee to and be safe from extradition. (That list, BTW, started with Singapore....)
YES...life is good. Me and my McLux, and my CMG!
I mean, some of you guys have the uncanny ability to take an emitter and a blank metal tube, and then using nothing but your bare hands can create a beautiful flashlight within a matter of minutes. Me...? I`m at the absolute other end of the spectrum.
BUT...as they say, "Even a blind pig can find the trough every once in a while."
There I was, late last night, playing with an HA (Yes! HA!) McLux that Don "Mcgizmo" had been kind enough to send my way. This light, I thought to myself, was certainly worth the $1,250 that I had to pay to Don to get it...autographed by him, and all.
But WHOA...! What`s this? The Kroll switch was starting to act up. It didn`t stay on all the time when I pushed the "clickie" hidden and protected in the guard of the McLux.
I started to panic...as persons at my end of the spectrum are want to do. "What the hell am I going to do now," I thought to myself.
I knew that if I couldn`t get the McLux to work right, its value would plummet to a mere $1,125.00...the value commanded by Don`s autograph (at least that was the value given by Don, and he should certainly know best).
I immediately started to send another email to Don...this time for help to fix the clickie. (I had been emailing him earlier in the evening... giving him information about the criminal penalties for mail fraud, a topic that Don, for some reason, has been pretty preoccupied with lately.)
I needed Don`s advice on how to get at the Kroll switch, so that I could make at least a feeble attempt myself to get it working right again. The way the McLux is constructed, you see, you can`t easily unscrew the Kroll switch because of the way its protected by the switch guard.
Well...anyway...just as I was getting ready to send the frantic email plea for help out to Don, I happened to look at a rather large, and forlorn, pile of flashlights that was on the floor by my computer. (These were some flashlights that I`ve purchased over the years, but for a variety of reasons were now rarely, if ever, used by me...having been replaced by other "nicer" flashlights.)
There it was...right by a couple of prehistoric 4D M*gs... a CMG Infinity!
A dim light went on in my technologically challenged head. "Why don`t I try to use the 1AA battery pack of the Infinity," I thought to myself, "as a tool to screw out and remove the clickie!"
I quickly took the CMG apart and removed the battery (I knew how to do that), and then ever so carefully inserted the empty CMG battery pack into the McLux guard and over the rubber tip of the Kroll switch.
AND THEN...now here comes the good part...I successfully unscrewed and removed the clickie... and then reinstalled the clickie back into the McLux the very same way!
The McLux now works perfectly again. It turned out that the Kroll switch was just a little loose...but I tightened it with my CMG!
I celebrated long into the night...constantly clicking my now tightened Kroll switch on and off, and at the same time researching for Don (and also apparently for Darell) what countries one could flee to and be safe from extradition. (That list, BTW, started with Singapore....)
YES...life is good. Me and my McLux, and my CMG!