Hi everyone, I have enjoyed torch/flashlights for many years, and modded a couple (with my wife looking at me strangely as I test them in the garden) which was fun.
Started with a maglite and a terralux 2 AA, and got the bug.
I thought I’d better join a like-minded group of people 
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Welcome to BLF! It’s good to have another modder around here. It’ll be fun seeing what you come up with. And I hope you find the forum equally stimulating!
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You’ve still got time to turn away, dude!
There are so many flashlights to learn about and then buy. I first came here to research “the last” flashlight I was ever going to buy. This flashlight was going to replace the last flashlight I bought, which was supposed to be my “one flashlight to rule them all” light, and then I realized that the coke can flashlight while potent was not really going to work in any situation other than being on a job site, much less trying to wear one on my belt while driving.
I bought 3 flashlights in June, this place is addictive.
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Welcome to BLF mikelight! Cornwall is a great place for checking and using flashlights (not so much where I live
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Haha! yeah P10pablo
I got hooked a while back with the 3-cell maglite, with my first drop-in led upgrade kit. It amazed me how bright it was, and with the maglite’s deep reflector, it wowed! a lot of people when I went camping. I thought nothing could be brighter.
Then I got a Terralux (130 lumen I think) flashlight, of which I bought three, thinking nothing is gonna beat these.
It carried on from there
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Thanks djozz
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Welcome neighbour. Make yourself comfortable, you’ll be here a while
Haha! yeah thanks Marc E
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Welcome
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welcome dude!
Welcome! This is a great community.
Welcome Mike!
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Great to be here
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Thank you trakcon!
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Thanks a lot Geuzzz!
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Welcome to the club. Looking at your collection, you’ll fit right in.
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A love of flashlights is very interesting. It definitely feels like some of us are big into them, while others (most) could care less. It is kinda like the phone, where I do use my flashlight and camera, but they’re always a compromise to the far superior daily carry camera I have, and the torch I carry with me.
Back to flashlights though, i’ve always loved flashlights and i’ve always been drawn to buying them. As a kid, a flashlight was always in my hand after dark, I was either reading under the blanket, or chasing creatures in the night.
Lastly, what is the light in the lower hand corner?
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I’ll give you the same advice I have given new people for years, make a light budget and keep to it!!
This site will have you sitting by the mailbox every day!!
Haha, guess you can try…
Me too, always had a fascination for light. sound. and radio.
I collected flashlights/torches when I was 9 years old (56 now) all incandescent lights back in the late 60’s/early 70’s. My friends and I used to love going out on misty nights with them.
The flashlight lower left is a Klarus MI7
Lower right one (pictures below) was thrown at me from a passing vehicle, hitting my bag I was carrying, so I ended up with a free usb rechargeable light
Can’t complain about that! Not sure what make it is.
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Haha! yeah,
That picture I put up with a bunch of lights doesn’t include all of them, just the ones I could get away with putting in one place before my wife complains to me.
I have strategic areas around the house, so she doesn’t realise how big my collection is
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Hi mikelight, welcome to BLF.
Ditto. Being rather OCD they are all in one spreadsheet, but the total number is never spoken out loud.
Edit: I guess we’re both past the advice of living on a budget. On a certain moment I looked at the total, added up the ones that were in the mail, and rounded that off on the next decade. And from there on I stick to that number. I even may buy new lights, but one in is one out.
You are a flashaholic if you are forced to come out of the closet, to make room for more flashlights.
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If you’re already a confirmed flashaolic, it will only get worst! Did you consider secretly renting a small flat to store your lights and go play with them at night pretending to have a lot of work?
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