I am new to this hobby and I like budget lights. So, after my disappointment reading CPF (WHAAAAT, you don't have at least 5 surefires????? AND your lights cost less than your car????), I found BLF and believe it is a friendly place to talk about lights that don't need me to sell my house.
I started with an Aurora P7 2-mode and a Trustfire S-A2 3-mode and love them! The Aurora is very bright and a perfect flooder for a walk in the dark (this little thing draws 2.8A at tailcap) and S-A2 throws really nice for its size (but has a really idiotic "memory").
Of course I have about fifty more lights I want to purchase and the reviews here are really useful and fun to read (again and again lol).
So, nice reading you guys and I will start writing too when I have something to ask or say.
Good to have you here. Please do join in - everyone's opinions matter. And we do want to hear them. Unlike CPF...
I don't actually own any light that cost more than my present car.
But all of my computers do.
Many of my previous cars cost about the same as a Maglite, but I got bored with fixing them at the side of the road when they broke. Given the UK climate, that usually involved rain... Or snow :(
I understand you, I have the exact same thing with computers, every computer I own costs a small fortune (I am a web developer to my defense so I need expensive computers :p).
Cheap cars... You reminded me of my first car, twenty years ago, a zastava yugo! You will not believe how many ways it had to annoy me. I will tell you just two things, after I purchased it, I found that the - extra - cassette player was connected by mistake with the brake light valve, so when I was hitting the breaks it stopped playing! The second thing was a loose spring inside the horn button on wheel... When it wanted it started activating the horn! One day it started beeping when I was waiting for a red light behind another driver and he was pissed, left his car and came to my window :p:p:p
But I give it credit for one thing... One day we had a terrible flood and I saw many expensive cars on the side of the road that couldn't keep the engine running and the yugo was passing easily like a boat in 50cm water :p:p:p
I've never owned a Yugo. But a Nissan Bluebird that had done 400,000km before I bought it was "fun". You never knew which bit would fall off next. I kept a welder and all sorts of tools in it at all times. I still have it, though the engine got given away a few years ago.
The real advantage of junk cars is that it really doesn't matter what happens to them, you can park them anywhere and leave the keys in them as it is worth more to the insurance company than it is to you. Unfortunately no thief was ever that desperate...
*You reminded me of my first car, twenty years ago, a zastava yugo! You will not believe how many ways it had to annoy me.*
Being from a country which was part of ex Yugaslavia that mass produced those poor excuse of a car i can say that those cars actually were not that bad. Any1 could fix it. Spare parts were cheap. Safety was ridiculous tho...
I own a FIAT. There is a joke floating around for FIAT cars that says: How do you get spare parts for a FIAT car? Drive behind another FIAT. :D
Anyway, welcome to BLF which is a great resource for flashligts with a vast and kind user base not biased toward any paritcular manufacturer althrough some have their own preferences but those are not nazi style enforced as can be seen on CPF.
lol Budgeteer for the FIAT joke! A Yugo joke: Why does a Yugo has the thermal wire of the back window on the outside? So when you are pushing your Yugo, your fingers stay warm
But you are right, it was an honest real-low-budget car and we can't expect it to be built like a bmw.
LOL It was Sarah Palin that said something about seeing Russia from her house or something like that. I spent over 22 yrs. in Alaska and absolutely loved the experience but there's really something special about living in Paradise - Hawaii.
You could keep the Jazz in the boot of one of my previous cars, an Audi 100 estate which dumped all its hydraulics at speed on the A90. No steering or brakes - oh yes, and collapsed suspension. At 80mph. Theoretically I still had brakes but having lost the servo I couldn't get the pedal to move.
Needed a new driver's seat too...
Then I had two Bluebird estates. Those 3 between them had done something like 700,000 miles.
One of the Bluebirds lunched its clutch at T in the Park. Real fun getting it out of a muddy field then...
Exactly, even more, if we want to be just I think we should not buy US made items since we need to balance all these people that buy only US stuff
Just kidding, if the price is right for the item I am buying I don't care where it comes from. But price should be right and US made lights are just expensive.