For those with access to a 3D printer, this parametric wall mount is really neat.
Instead of graphically manipulating the model, changes are made by editing parameters set up by the designer. Things like diameter, number and size of mounting holes, and other dimensions are set by changing variables.
I’m still a newbie at 3D printing, but I was able to fumble through OpenSCAD (freeware) and make a few different sizes.
That’s a great idea. Puts me closer to buying one.
I just store mine on metal document trays in the study. Boring!
Door ledges in the old house. Window seals, computer desk, fridge and some in Plano boxes with charger and extra cells for when I am traveling or camping.
There are several easily knocked over inches from my fingers as I type this.
Mine are everywhere… All over the house. Where ever i am standing in the house, garage, shed, trucks, car, ATVs, or RV. i can see at least one in view. Also when i roll over in bed at night, i either roll on one, or kick one on the floor. When i open the fridge to get a beer i have to move a light… or two.
I just put them everywhere. Anywhere I walk, there’s a light within reach - as how it should be.
Box queens, in their original boxes and “stored” in banker boxes.
Daily-use, on my table right here, like a flashlight orgy.
Semi-used and/or “rotated in”, in canvas sling-bags.
I would love to have a multi-shelf glass cabinet with lights for illumination at night to store my flashlights, preferably near my WFH desk.
While at work alone in my rather quiet room, I have found some solace in those small blinking auxiliary LED colourful lights in some newer flashlights. Now I am waiting for the arrival of an Astrolux MF01S with blinking 18 LEDs.
I can certainly relate to this. :+1: :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming: 
All have designated storage locations based on intended use.
Some rooms have a dedicated light, others are in easy to grab locations and one is only used for emergencies and is in a dedicated spot at can be found by touch in pitch dark. Which has happened once.
Also 5 live in the car in designated locations and can be found by touch in pitch dark (though the car has LED upgraded trunk and cabin lights).
The Moon RC2s float but end up back in the designated spot eventually.
I’d like to send a bunch of my flashlights back to the “store”
I don’t :person_facepalming:
Those Nightseeker lights are some of my most used lights ( $30) —Especially the XHP50.2 version (4000k) with the 21700 tube
Is that 240 etched into the light?
I dremeled the output into the head yes, I once used it as an output reference.
I like to try and keep my lights looking mint, i cringed when i saw that :cry:
3 cardboard boxes. One holds extra batteries, both charged and discharged. One for old hot wire lights. And one for the current crop of LEDs, excluding the 8 or so that are scattered about the house.
Been thinking about something better, but can’t decide what that might be…
All the Best,
Jeff
Lights are tools. They are meant to be used. I have several wrenches I have heated and bent or twisted because they do a specific task more easily that way. Socket extensions that have been cut and welded together with a pipe extension. All sorts of customized or bastardized depending on ones outlook. The list includes a small light I filed a groove into to make finding the side switch in the dark easier, as well as an S2 with a magnet epoxied to the end.
I have to disagree. Lights are tools but what kind of tool is the Acebeam X50 or any light that has off the chart specs? Most of the lights on the market are really nothing more than novelty lights to wow your friends. We basically are attracted to the high horsepower and low price and we buy them under the guise of needing them. Nobody needs an X50, or an MF04S, or any a light that can throw a mile (or two.)
In your tool box you have a ratchet, a set of wrenches and a vice grip. You don’t have an air powered jack hammer with compressor to match?
30 years ago we got by just fine with a 2D Eveready flashlight, now we “need’ an Acebeam X50. We ”need’ 10,000 lumens and 1,000,000 candela. People walk their dog with a 20,000 lumen light when a S2+ would work just fine.
Need and Want are two separate things not to be confused with each other.
Having said that, its noon in NY now and I really want a burger from Shake Shack.
I keep all mine pristine… unless/until it ends up with a ding, and then it becomes a “beater”. I still don’t abuse it, but I don’t cry myself to sleep if it falls again and gets another ding.
If I were a mechanic or plumber or whatever, and had a work light, it’d be a different story. It’d be functional, and I wouldn’t get a special color, certainly not Ti or Cu or brass or anything. And it’d probably be a throwaway light in case it ever went kaboom after a fall. And past a certain point, I wouldn’t care if it got greasy, or scraped, or dented, etc.
But you can keep an EDC pristine if it’s always in a pocket, or holstered, and you don’t go using it as the puck when playing street-hockey. But then again, that wouldn’t be a work light.
Think of watches. You can have your old beater that takes a licking and keeps on ticking, even if you’re banging it on pipes and on the ground, etc., but that ain’t the same watch you take when going out to a nice place to eat.