How do you store your flashlights?

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:

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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.

Absolutely! Been my mantra for decades, though I may have sretched a want into the need column once or twice.

But I have a 120VAC 15 amp Bosch Brute Breaker Hammer in the barn. Does that count? :wink:

My most powerful light is a Q8 with bypassed springs. First run edition. It has a mark from sometime that I don’t recall. My EDC is an FW3A showing anodization wear from being carried everywhere in a pocket. My other frequently used light is a Wuben TO50R that also has a few slight abrasions from being used outdoors. Not a big deal to me. Oh, my LT1, another first edition still looks pretty good after being used a number of times. But to me those are all tools, not growth investments. Okay, I do have a few duplicated lights in OEM boxes. And a few others in a cabinet and those I keep clean and pretty; copper and S/S X6 is very pretty. I don’t have a lot like that though. Occasionally I use one for a gift. It is nice to have a new one in a box for that.

I have one watch that leaves my wrist when I shower. It is water resistant to a certain number of feet, so I don’t know why I remove it then. ??? Habit I guess. It’s a 10 year old Timex. Silver with a white face; dial lights up when stem is pressed so I can see it in the dark or want to impress little kids. Cost $28 back then. If my wearing it everywhere annoyed somebody that is their problem. Certainly does not faze me.

Still happy with this cabinet from Amazon;
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008UQKOQQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref\_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
Currently holding 81 Flashlights of various sizes.

Here is my thread from back then with some other options mentioned by members;

Later,
Keith

Now we’re talking! I actually meant the thread (older?) with cigar boxes and thought i’d linked it.

This is much nicer than what I posted, I’m definitely putting a price watch on that. Thanks!

edit, the spinny thing for the small ones is a great idea too

edit 2, ordered, good price, not too fancy and not too cheap looking

Mine are on a couple shelves of what’s supposed to be a bookshelf. That spice box/shelf thing the OP pictured looked neat until I noticed it said it was rated for 10 lbs. No way that’ll work. I really outta take a pic or two…

I built this cabinet to showcase my BLF GT when the very first batch was released.

The box joint style construction is my friend’s design using his CNC machine. I made the stickers on a color printer and the decals on a vinyl cutter.

I wanted it to look like a one-off purpose built cabinet that had been mounted in a busy factory for several years, so I beat it up and weathered it.

I built a more traditional style cabinet for some of the small and medium-sized lights in my collection.

Click the photos to embiggen.

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Wow, you really love that light don’t you :cowboy_hat_face:
What are you using to light up the inside and how did you weather it and get those faded decals?

If I laid my whole collection on a table, I’m pretty sure the GT is the first flashlight anyone would notice. I figured it deserved a showcase. :smiley:

The cabinet was painted with yellow and black enamel spray paint, then tossed around and hit with a variety of objects. I weathered it with a few different colors of very dilute acrylic paint to highlight the defects.

The decals are printed on self-adhesive paper using a color laser printer. I weathered them with coffee and abrasion.

For these photos, I turned the GT on a low mode and hid a small AAA light behind the handle. I want to add some lighting but haven’t yet decided how.

I got a lot of inspiration for weathering from Adam Savage and the storage case he made for his microscope:

Wow, that is very impressive and i admire your dedication to this project! :slight_smile:

Goshdogit, that’s outstanding work!

Coloring reminds me of the band corrosion of conformity.

Thorough!