Today I crawled around inside a 8600 KW 2 stroke MAN diesel engine and measured piston ring gaps, piston ring vertical clearance and looking if anything was out of order.
I used my Palight M6-2 modded with a warm white Cree XR-E led running a IMR battery on the original driver. Gets toasty after some minutes but gives wonderful working light and clips right on the hearing protection with the original clip.
Dirty work but someone's got to do it. And I kind of like it.
Today I finished up my TR-J19 mod and took it out with me on tonight's walk with the dog. Gobs and gobs of throw! Replaced the driver with one from the DRY and replaced the emitters with dedomed XM-L2 U2-1C Crees on Noctigons along with some resistance mods. Whoowheee! I'm also watching the Walking Dead marathon in the dark right now and shining my Convoy L4 about the room.
I also use my flashlights a lot to navigate the house in the evening instead of switching on the main lights. Makes life much more fun! :)
Yesterday I again used my Sipik SK73 to find something I dropped on the floor, by the long shadow.
My most recent major use was to help clean up a flood in a neighbor’s condominium unit, before it reached ours. The power had been turned off in case the water got to the circuits, and there is no window in the bathroom.
I own over a dozen Geocaches in my area, and a fiew of them are Night/UV-Caches. we love going out in the local trails around here Geocaching and taking lots of lights !
Today I used my Explorer E82 modded with xml T6 to inspect the inside of the crankcase of a cooling compressor for our meat freezer room and our vegetable cooler room. Looks like I'll be overhauling a compressor in the near future as the crankshaft can move about 1mm lengthwise.
Even though my deck has decent lighting, you still can't see clearly what your cooking. Nothing worse than an over cooked hamburger, steak, etc. Am I right, or am I right? lol!
First of all, I used my wonderful $17 Ultrafire XM-L headlamp to help see my way while starting a small bonfire of debris, and finish tidying up my outdoor work areas after the day’s jobs.
Then I grabbed my warm white Convoy M1 to go looking in an unlit shed for some tools I hadn’t found earlier; the high CRI makes it ideal for figuring out a glance what is what.
Once that was done, I pocketed the M1 and grabbed the XinTD C8 to go hunting for some livestock which had strayed onto my land earlier in the day. The headlamp pointing down on low power to illuminate my path, and the C8 as a searchlight. The headlight is usually enough to see all round the field I am in but the C8 is wonderful for searching the next field, which may save a bit of walking if the contours allow me to do enough of a sweep over the hedges.
Then when I got back home, I took out the very floody SkyRay King to do a final scan of my outdoor work areas.
Then I went inside, and dumped the XM-L headlamp, because it’s a bit big and heavy. I put on my little $7 XP-G headlamp, because it’s more than powerful enough for looking in cupboards while I tidy up, and I fit it more relaxing to wear than the big headlamp.
That’s pretty much the usual mix for a dry autumn evening. No shelf queens in my collection!
I had a sprinkler head blow off… we have insanely high (over 100 PSI) water pressure around here The head would not screw back on to the coupler. Threaded coupler was down a narrow 8” deep hole. Used a Nichia 219 mod’d Sprit to look down the hole to find the coupler, auger it out with the sprinkler tool, fish out gunk with long tweezers, replace it, and get it all back together.
Also used the TV-B-Gone flashlight to nuke off a couple of really annoying TVs at an eatery.