Do you loan friends your top lights?

I keep some old non 18650 clunkers around for people who want to borrow.Not many people I know really ask to borrow either so I'm safe for now.

Not a chance..

i think if i HAD to loan out a light, it would be my ZL sc600 BLF special. though i am thinking about trying to return it to ZL for an exchange, if they really live up to their warranty... then i dont think i have anything i would trust anyone but my fiance with if i was more than 10' away

Nope.

Top lights never, nice lights rarely(wife only). Costco specials, all the time.

glad to know i am not the only one who won’t loan high brightness lights, though the costco special is an excellent idea, can they run on nimh or do they need alkaline for full brightness?

In a word…NO. I always keep a couple of cheapo lights (beaters) around for occasions like this.
The last light I lent out came back with the lens cracked right thru. No big deal, since it was an old one, and I hated the tint anyway.

I have some friends I wouldn trust a glow stick with then there are friends that nothing but the best would do.plus it might open their eyes up to my addiction oops hobby...

No frigging way! :expressionless:

I have loaner lights for that! :bigsmile:

I used to. Not my top one, but I lent out my modded HD2010 to a friend who lost it camping. Sad part was it took me a few weeks to realize it wasn't around the house and remember I loaned it. There went ~$50.

Side note, built a 2D XP-G Mag for my parents. Alkaline batteries leaked in the tube so they threw the whole thing away before giving me a chance to salvage the H22A heatsink and LED :(

Top lights? I wasn’t specific enough the first time. I would not loan out top lights, like D40A, EA4W (I’m scared to use that one, silly switch), BTU Shocker, ArmyTek anything (even though they can take abuse), OLight, and monster Trustfires. The cheaper EDC sized and single cell lights could be loaned out for day-use.

one does not often need lights during the day :stuck_out_tongue:

Only my i2 can be borrowed, and for 3 minutes or so.

To friends who I know on a personal level I do, but they have never needed it for more than a few days.
But to people I only know, they get the beaters :bigsmile:

Heck no, all of my lights still look new except 1 Solarforce L2 I dropped on concrete once, it’s still 99%. I have let friends use lights in my presence and it just makes me mad, they sit lights down on rough surfaces and such. Every time I look at a picture by Foy with the lights sitting on a concrete block it makes my skin crawl, LOL. I know I’m OCD, it runs in my fathers side of the family but it skipped him, my grandfather was and a couple of uncles are. Nobody has ever asked to take a light but if they did, I would let them borrow some cheap Ultrafire ???.

I will loan out expensive lights and have done so many times. What I will not loan out are li-ion based lights. So basically, surefire primaries or aa/aaa lights.

I was going to loan SK68 the other day, but it had a good ZL14500 battery in it, I said you can chuck a AA battery in it if you want, but they weren’t keen, suits me!

I would too! That cell is worth more than the light. lol

I only loan out my idiot proof lights such as a mini Maglite because well… they’re not too knowledgeable about keeping a li-ion happy. :slight_smile:

Edit: It’s not about the price, it’s whether or not others can use it without too much hassle.
I would lend out an EA4 (if I had one) because it’s one of my easiest and safest lights to use.

No way, Jose

But last year I loaned my SF Yellow P1, XM-L T6 3C dropin with protected battery to my 11yrs old nephew when he went for a school organized caving trip.

Well, he came back & told me proudly he is THE lead man alongside two teachers :bigsmile: