How do you store your flashlights?

Ikea detolf might be a good suggestion?

Most of mine (which are EDCs) are kept on my workbench located in the basement, along with the battery chargers. Very convenient for me to pick the one I want to use. Other bigger ones are also in the workroom on a shelf, or around the house for others to use.

I’ve also kept all my boxes and have them on a shelf in the workroom. Not sure why I have them, except I guess they would come in handy if and when we move.

I’ve thought about putting up a wall shelf in the workroom to get them off the workbench since I worried about them when my son was hammering stuff. I was concerned about the vibrations possibly causing an issue with the flashlights. But it’s been a while since he last used my workbench.

Assembled this cabinet. Amazon.com

Looks nice. Doors rub just a bit at the top, I’ll tweak that eventually. Now I’ll be looking for lighting.

The holes for placing the shelves mean you can’t put the lowest shelf high enough for longer 2S lights, so you could go w/ only 2 shelves or add some more holes for the shelf holders. I’ll probably just put my larger lights on top.

They’re everywhere, as if they were tribbles :weary: .

One day I’ll get some (lotsa) cardboxes to put 99% of my lights into them to put them on sale. You cannot imagine how I hate that I became a collector.

Nice shelf for less than US$100. Do share with us some photos once you have installed some lighting and set up your collection of flashlights.

I will be looking for a similar wood cabinet with glass windows, perhaps from some second-hand shops.

A few years back I had loads of drivers, emitters and half modded hosts. I threw it all in a box and donated it.

This time around the hope is to not tear into as many things and keep stuff a bit more organized.

My solution. One cabinet out of several in the workshop. The see-thru compartment boxes are great for small parts though I need tweezers to remove things. The hard part is to put newly aquired pieces into an appropriate contaier. It is very tempting to just put on an vacant spot and file it in the “right spot” later.

Very nice, MtnDon! If only I’d done that before I had to move a couple times I’d probably still have all the stuff I donated.

I really like the set of those bathroom linen cabinets. However, there is no merchant (and cost)?

My price history says < $60 for the 3 shelved unit - if shipping is reasonable, these may farewell. And as proposed, they can be wall-mounted!

i got about 4 or 5 i might use on a daily basis, though usually it is the FW3A in the pocket all the time
i might switch at night or around the house to a 1xAAA light like a AAA tool

then i have 4 or 5 others in out of the way places
nightstand, basement, bathroom
2nd - class lights
too big for pocket
or use weird batteries like 2xC cells

then i have 2 printer-paper boxes for ‘out of circulation’ lights

  1. lights ok to use
  2. broken or ridiculous lights i may have had a long time or picked up really cheap - i may give these away sometimes

I have to thank Keith again. I used to throw them in bags and bins.

I just need like 3 more cabinets, if they go on sale. No humble brag there, I just buy way too many flashlights, this is most of the good ones.

Headlamps are too awkward in here, I need to do something else. Probably thin the herd.

This got me to organize my lithiums and chargers. I really appreciate that.:slight_smile:

I’m guessing about 35 lights and $2000-3000 in this picture, plus batteries?

No way, unless you count my modding time on a couple… Under 1000 easily, I hope.

How do you get all those hosts so damn cheap?
To be under $1000 each one would have to cost under about $25/each including modding parts.

Distractions and BLF!

Not including mod costs but most are stock anyway.

My math might not be perfect, but more than a dozen were well under 20. There are some empty boxes. I only keep boxes if they might be gifts. A few were under 10!

If I bought other cabinets it would be for lights that wish I would finish “fixing” them. Not very useful, currently.

The top shelf wasn’t cheap, but even the fenix on the right I did ok on, close to 100 iirc.

The FD65 is very unpopular with flashlight people, it seems… A giant zoomie that doesn’t throw. I find it very useful (runtime, beam shape, tint) but it doesn’t impress people like a wall of light or a good thrower. Fenix skipped both.

Thats some good pricing.
Most of my lights cost more but are not modded, my first was a Cyclone C88 which was $45. A bunch of Convoys in the $20 range, my latest Wurkkos WK30 was $31.
But my Xtar Moon RC2s were about $10 each, though about $15 each with shipping.

Added motion sensor strip lighting.

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@dthrckt
I see you have 4 angle flashlights with green colour in the body.
Could you advise why you have four of them? Different emitter per flashlight, perhaps?

Is that a Rayz 1000 Lumen 9 x AA on the bottom shelf, second from left? Seven years ago, back in 2014, I was so excited about that light that I bought three of them from True Value. A few months later was the Coleman C-Tac60 600 lumen XM-L2 18650, and then finally, I discovered the Four-Sevens MMU-X3. Oct. 2014, 1,600 lumens, 26650, 3 x XML2.

I have never seen a photo or mention of the Rayz 1000 Lumen on the forums. You have a nice collection, and thanks for the happy memories. :)

Just a bad decision tbh. I bought them many years ago, very inexpensive. I hsd assumed they were all metal, but just the part sticking out from the body is metal, so you can’t go with a higher power driver. I modified one w/ an xml (I think they have xpe clone) and gave it away, never got around to doing the others. Very tight beam. Maybe someday I’ll find a better host for the TIR in them.