Amazing flashlights

[geezerbiker]

Well they call them work lights and they run on 3 AA batteries.  I got a 3 pack of these Duracell work lights with batteries at Costco on sale for 15 bucks.  I swear these are brighter than the headlights on any of my first 4 motorcycles and not too bulky either with the handle folded in one of them is about 2x as thick as a CD case and one of them slides neatly into the CD holder in my Silverado like it was made to go there.

I'd post a picture but you can find them all over the web but most places have them for 2x the Costco sale price...  I skipped over them when they were regular price but I'm way glad the "well they're on sale" worked on my this time.

I also have a couple Harbor Freight work lights and the switches always seem to wear out.  These are brighter and I'm hoping the switches last.  I was using one last night when I was poking around under the hood of my truck and changing a few light bulbs on the front...  My conclusion is they're awesome and worth regular price if you can't find them on sale.

Tony

[Ranger99]

The cheapest cheap pos one dollar
flashlight nowadays is a thousand
times better than some of the "good "
ones I had camping and hunting as
a kid decades ago. Young people
these days don't have to suffer the
dim excuse for a light like we had
then. Dang, does everyone remember
having to shake and bang on them to
get em to work half the time?
I almost wanted to cry when I got
my first mag light.

[powderman]

Not sure if it's the same thing but I have a couple of those black  3 AAA lights that are super bright too, love em. I keep one on my night table next to my 45.
YEP, I've done my share of banging on and shaking those old lights too. Can never get too many guns, knives, or flashlites. I got mine at Rural King. CHARLIE. 

[mcbammer]

    For me ,I dont need all the blinking  & flashing ,red an green . Just on & off button will suffice . Its aggravating to click a button four  times  before it goes   off .

[teamnelson]

Last couple of years I buy whatever O-Light offers around the holidays for free plus $5 shipping. Now we have several very excellent single battery or rechargeable keychain lights in the 90-150lumen range. This years model is the size of a 1/2 roll of certs (if anyone remembers certs), rechargeable USB, with a 5 and 150 lumen option with just a twist. For $5 you can't beat it. I've been so impressed with O-Light I picked up one of their weapons lights during one of their sales a year or so ago, 600lumen on the rail of the house gun, that charges via a magnet on a usb cable so it pops off when you grab it. The super geewhiz streamlight with all the tactical button click options now sits in my wife's bedside drawer for when the power goes out.

[Dee]

My son sent me a Streamlight 750 lumina tactical light. I stuck scope ring on it with a wing screw. I can have it on, or my rifle, or shotgun in seconds. Or carry it in a pocket. But wasn't cheap.

[Bob Riebe]

My father bought sixty years ago a large lantern flashlight for camping, now I have not used it for years and but it still sits in the garage.
It had the red emergency flashing light on it also.
I am not sure you can get the type of battery it used.

We did a lot of camping back then and I do not ever remember it not having far, far more light than the standard 2 D cell batteries that all the others were.
He also used it in the garage when it had no electricity.
To this day if I have to go out and look for some thing on a new-moon night, although that has pretty much stopped, I have a cheap 6V plastic flashlight I got from the Fingerhut clearance store.
 Because it is cheap, the internal connections may be on their last legs but I have had it for 30 years and it illuminated forty feet  brightly and well enough I could see a black cat sitting sixty feet away and so I could go get old lard butt and carry him home.

Now I am one who gets attached to old tools and prefers to use/keep them till the second coming such as flashlight you got when could buy batteries and a flashlight came with it.
When my aunt died I found a cluster of unused battery-less little AA/AAA size incandescent  flashlights in a drawer.
I was amazed at how well they illuminated compared to some old cheap D cell flashlights I had

My brother gave me a Maglight a few years back and for an old fashioned D cell battery it IS the best one I ever had but of all the new led or what ever their bulb is, small size, size of old C cell flashlights, only one is really, really good and I got that one for free some where.
It throws a light that actually reaches out, it does not illuminate brightly for six feet and then die like most of the others but those new style little AA flashlights I will admit are fantastic for looking in small tight places.
I WISH, GREATLY, that they made Lithium D cell batteries as too often I will grab a flashlight that has sat mostly unused for a long, long time and find it is not far from going belly-up.

[Doublebass73]

My father bought sixty years ago a large lantern flashlight for camping, now I have not used it for years and but it still sits in the garage.
It had the red emergency flashing light on it also.
I am not sure you can get the type of battery it used.

We did a lot of camping back then and I do not ever remember it not having far, far more light than the standard 2 D cell batteries that all the others were.
He also used it in the garage when it had no electricity.
To this day if I have to go out and look for some thing on a new-moon night, although that has pretty much stopped, I have a cheap 6V plastic flashlight I got from the Fingerhut clearance store.
 Because it is cheap, the internal connections may be on their last legs but I have had it for 30 years and it illuminated forty feet  brightly and well enough I could see a black cat sitting sixty feet away and so I could go get old lard butt and carry him home.

Now I am one who gets attached to old tools and prefers to use/keep them till the second coming such as flashlight you got when could buy batteries and a flashlight came with it.
When my aunt died I found a cluster of unused battery-less little AA/AAA size incandescent  flashlights in a drawer.
I was amazed at how well they illuminated compared to some old cheap D cell flashlights I had

My brother gave me a Maglight a few years back and for an old fashioned D cell battery it IS the best one I ever had but of all the new led or what ever their bulb is, small size, size of old C cell flashlights, only one is really, really good and I got that one for free some where.
It throws a light that actually reaches out, it does not illuminate brightly for six feet and then die like most of the others but those new style little AA flashlights I will admit are fantastic for looking in small tight places.
I WISH, GREATLY, that they made Lithium D cell batteries as too often I will grab a flashlight that has sat mostly unused for a long, long time and find it is not far from going belly-up.

I have a 3 C cell Maglite that I've had for years. I converted it to an LED bulb and it's amazing now. It was always good but it's way brighter now and the battery life is incredible. I haven't had to change batteries since I converted it. I use it every night to take the dogs out and close up the chicken coop.

[nw_hunter]

Led has changed the world as we know it.

[Dee]

Led has changed the world as we know it.

True

[Argent 88]

Led has changed the world as we know it.

Especially on emergency vehicles like ambulances ,who once had to have a 200 amp alternator.   
My buddy works at the city garage, he gave me one of those because they were going to throw
them away. 

[Buckskin]

When the LED's first came out they were +$100 at Cabelas and such.  I remember seeing them and thinking "who the heck would spend that on a flashlight"...  As stated, now you can buy that technology for a couple bucks.  Same goes for indoor light bulbs.

[powderman]

I have 2 d cell maglites, one led the other reg. I want to convert the older one but don't know where to get the kit or how to do it.  The 2 cell amazes me how bright it is.
Went to Rural king yesterday and intended to buy  another lite on sale for $10. 800 lumens but had all those different modes to click, no thanks. I wanted another like the last on I bought, 550 lumens and only flood and spot. Couldn't find another one. CHARLIE. 

[Doublebass73]

I have 2 d cell maglites, one led the other reg. I want to convert the older one but don't know where to get the kit or how to do it.  The 2 cell amazes me how bright it is.
Went to Rural king yesterday and intended to buy  another lite on sale for $10. 800 lumens but had all those different modes to click, no thanks. I wanted another like the last on I bought, 550 lumens and only flood and spot. Couldn't find another one. CHARLIE. 

Charlie,
This is the 2 D cell version of the led bulb that I used (mine is a 3 C cell). All you do is change the bulb and you're good to go. I have almost a year of daily used on the same set of batteries since I put the bulb in my maglite.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075FXBQ9S/ref=twister_B07T8BTVYB?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

[geezerbiker]

When the LED's first came out they were +$100 at Cabelas and such.  I remember seeing them and thinking "who the heck would spend that on a flashlight"...  As stated, now you can buy that technology for a couple bucks.  Same goes for indoor light bulbs.

Electronics technology has a way of dropping in price over time.  Remember when a 4 function pocket calculator didn't fit in a pocket and cost a grand?

Tony

[Dee]

True! When something technologically neat, and new comes out.  WAIT! Its gonna get cheaper.

[powderman]

I have 2 d cell maglites, one led the other reg. I want to convert the older one but don't know where to get the kit or how to do it.  The 2 cell amazes me how bright it is.
Went to Rural king yesterday and intended to buy  another lite on sale for $10. 800 lumens but had all those different modes to click, no thanks. I wanted another like the last on I bought, 550 lumens and only flood and spot. Couldn't find another one. CHARLIE. 

Charlie,
This is the 2 D cell version of the led bulb that I used (mine is a 3 C cell). All you do is change the bulb and you're good to go. I have almost a year of daily used on the same set of batteries since I put the bulb in my maglite.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075FXBQ9S/ref=twister_B07T8BTVYB?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

THANKS, I'll order one after the first of the month. Rural King had AA and AAA 4 pk energizer on sale so I bought several pks. The way Patty goes through bttys I may try the store brand, $5 for 20. CHARLIE.