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Ebay store dchomak! Tongue Out

Ebay store dchomer :bigsmile:

I have never sold deals I get at a profit. That would take the FUN out of it. How many people make the mistake of turning their hobby into a business. They end up with no hobby and probably don’t make money at it anyway.

BTW, I collect tools as though it were a stamp collection. Hardware, screws, nuts etc I like to have on hand.
I will buy any stainless steel hardware when it is on clearance, I love SS screws and nuts!

Bort is practical to a fault so he must ask, what do you do with all those 1 cent items?

You'll find out on the next episode of "Hoarders" :) .

-Garry

I try to organize it and put it aside for when I may use it. I gave half of the box of EMT parts to an electrician friend, along with a couple of these:

These were $15.97 and I got them for 5 cents each on clearance. ImA4Wheelr would get a kick out of that because in one of his threads I posted these pics as a suggestion for an easy way to make a large zooming aspheric flashlight. Months later, there they were and I scooped them up.
It is a 2” expansion fitting for electrical work. The lube on the sleeve and the o-rings allows the length to be adjustable.

Yeah, but I got good shhhh :smiley:

Next week I will be taking a trip to Ohio. It’s about a 10 hour trip with normal stops. This time I plan on stopping at 8 HD’s along the way. My GPS can be set to find POI’s “along the way” that are no more than 1/2 mile off route. Very handy for finding a Dunkin Donuts or whatever kind of stop you like. We shall see if I can apply my theories on this trip.
Meanwhile, just today I found 2 more LED bulbs for a penny. These are old stock from a month ago’s clearance and when I saw them I recognized them as the “penny” lights. These came from my hometown HD, 3 miles from my house.
The self service checkout at HD and the receipt dated today, 11/30/2014


I have so many of these now I have decided to have a give away on some of these. Look for a separate thread on this coming shortly.

Yesterday my wife asked me to find one of the LARGE 59 inch Teddy Bears that HD had on BF. All the stores around here were out but I found that there were still some 22 miles away at a HD near the Massachusetts State line. It’s a long drive, but who cares, there’s a Costco up there too. :slight_smile:

So I bought one, brought it out to my van and went back in to see if I could make the long trip really worthwhile. Only thing I could find is this display for an electrical outlet with an integral USB charging port.

Price ends with a “6”, now to check the date. Is it more that 6 months plus 6 weeks old?

3/18/14, that is old enough! This could ring up for a penny.
And it did, got 4 of them. Actually 5, the last one was stuck in the cardboard and I made another trip into the store to get it.

Here is the tear down of that unit.




Copper heatsinks.


It’s even iPhone and iPad compatible. Here it is pumping 1.69A into an iPad and 1.26A to the iPhone.
The package claims 3A, so that must be the limit to the 2 USB charging ports.
I will use one of these in the kitchen, the others? Maybe I will give them away. :wink:

Very impressive, i would enjoy having those outlets!
I wonder what that GPS within a 1/2 mile thing is called, if it has an official name, i would want it in my next GPS

it is a feature in iGo8. That is the GPS program that is shipped with most generic Chinese GPS units. It is also probably the most feature rich of any of the programs out there.







Hi DChomak,

Thankyou for posting this.

Do you happen to know what kind of Led that last Defiant flashlight set for $16 has in it?

I also notice the build quality of this year’s Defiant/Lowes flashlight’s use some of the same tailcaps/head’s/button’s I wonder whom the flashlight builder might be for these stores?

Very interesting. Thanks for posting. I'll be swinging by HD in my near future anyway, though I might skip HD's offerings and run across the street for another Lowes 2D XP-G2.

-Garry

I believe the package said 350 lumen. I looked and I think I remember an XP-G2

Those 2 lights for $16 seems pretty good.

Why not 1 of each? :slight_smile:

Play money around the holidays is much tighter :( .

-Garry

What I do To get around that is think, I’ll just gift it. That works pretty well, but then come Christmas, everybody ends up getting 5 flashlights LOL

Thanks dchomak. Guess Black Friday must have been a bust. I looked at the 2 pack that is now $16. They just don't do anything for me as I have several lights like them. Maybe someone will do a tear down and change my mind.

Yes, XP-G2 but there's no driver. There's a rectangular pcb with the switch and 2 smd resistors on it. The Lux-Pro 2D is brighter stock and I think much easier to mod unless you just want to direct drive it.

I recommend the big 1500 lumen 3X XM-L2 they have.

This has turned into my bedside light.

Only problem is it has a plastic lens so I ordered a 60mm lens from here—> FlashlightLens.com - Your source for high quality glass and acrylic flashlight lenses. - Flashlightlens.com - Online Store

This light remind’s me a lot of my Trustfire J-19 but this light stay’s by my side door as one of my animal watching light’s. :slight_smile: