Is there such a thing as flashlight resto-modding?
Do people take old lights and mod them with new tech?
I had one like this
It was lost in the yard, spent the winter buried in snow, and still working when found. Surprisingly the batteries didn’t leak and still had power. Long gone but not forgotten. I used it quite often catching nightcrawlers.
You can easily see it done to many oil lanterns. As far as old flashlights go, someone got one of those old bullseye-lens brass lights and re-worked it to fit a warm white LED. As an avid Call of Cthulhu roleplayer, I definitely approve. 
I had a couple of these about 30 years ago.
I remember very well my first camping lamp; I still have it.It used in 1980 to go from Rome to Paris, on a motorcycle, with my girlfriend.Still it works with 4xD cells.
I yearn for that time, past.
The flashlight of my youth! For the time, and for the money, a great buy. If we wanted more throw, we would buy those disposable square angle head lights. The whole light and battery were disposable, I think Garrity was the brand, firefighters had them on their helmets…
Those 2aa Duracell lights were the mainstay of many a nights lighting needs way back in the 80’s…
A remake would be cool, but in warm white, like an incandescent bulb…
I had several, a couple of stand out in my memory:
First, one of these Rayovac Workhorse 2D lights:
http://www.flashlightmuseum.com/Rayovac-Flashlight-2-Cell-Black-Plastic-Workhorse-with-1-Line-Logo-2C-1985
Surprised I found the second one! It was one of these little Dorcy 2xAA lights, with the yellow stripe on this side:
http://www.flashlightmuseum.com/Dorcy-Flashlight-Black-Plastic-with-Yellow-Trim-Mini-Light-2AA-1990
…or at least one very similar to that. I remember really being impressed with the amount of light coming from such a small flashlight at the time…
Yes! I’d forgotten all about these. We had one too.
Now this thread is moving, some great memories guy’s and girls - keep them coming
(unabashed bump)
Maybe one of our modder friends would accept this project…? 0:)
@ CRX,
Yes, I’d forgotten about those!
Thanks for the Memories.
Cheers,
Splott-Light 
+1, i had a couple of those Duracell’s………
Is it just me, still today where ever i go and there are “torch’s” , i have to have a good look over them. Checking the packaging and descriptions etc etc………Same when away camping, any hiking/camping shop, have to always check out the mags,swiss army knives and what ever goodies(with crazy inflated prices!).
In the early 70’s I received a Sanyo Cadnica flashlight for a birthday present. Internal NiCAD batteries and a flip-out 120v power adapter. Mine was either very dark green or black.
One could argue that it was this that started me down the dark path to flashaholism, armed with proper illumination!
My dad gave me one similar to this in the mid 1960’s. I was 12 or 13 at the time.
I remember my dad having a very old incan on a 4,5 v battery
THIS;
I used to have an old thin walled steel flashlight which looked like this one;
I Remember that I moded that light when I was way younger with a 9v battery and a 6v kripton bulb, it was shockingly bright but did not last long, Remember showing it to my father when he had just bought a 3D maglight and I told him mine was brighter, he said sure it is son… and turned on his light, then I turned mine on and he was like WTF!!! Priceless!!!
Did many a thumb curls with this one.
In the old days, we used to walk around the shallow flats just off the coast (called “torching” in Hawaii), armed with 3-prong spears and floating lanterns like this:
Hunting for octopus, sleeping fish, etc… Lost a few to poorly tied knots, much to my father’s annoyance.
This was my favorite light when i was young. It was one hell of a thrower, and it had an adjustable focus switch.
The most popular light when i was kid
I still have this green Rayovac flashlight, i remember playing with it as a kid. I don’t know how old it is but it is probably from the 90ies, all plastic and works with 2AA batteries. This was the first flashlight i ever had.
