Do you still own any non LED powered lights?

I keep the stock Mini-Mag I carried every day at work for years just to remind me how far we’ve come. That little guy has a blinding ten lumens!

2x AAA Solitarie…2 lumens…1 black, one gray
2x 2AA MiniMag that one day i will modding with “MatchMod” with a XM-L…but now are still incandescent :wink:

I have a 2 cell Maglite and two mini Maglites. I am not sentimental towards them but they cost to much to just throw away and are not in my view worth upgrading. So they just hang around unloved.

I’m more a light user than collector and as long as it works I’ll keep it around or give it away. One xenon, several incans. Old lights are good for ‘dirty work’ where they may get banged up or lost, and a lost cheap incan isn’t much of a loss. I’ve got oil lamps here too.

Just because something is old or obsolete doesn’t mean it’s useless; otherwise I’d be in the trash can myself!

Phil

Every room in our home and each vehicle has a Maglite mounted on the wall/in the door, all with LEDs. However, all but three of them still have incandescent bulbs in the tails for emergencies (including “events” that will burn out semiconductors, e.g., LEDs).

The best lights (Fenix, Nitecore, etc.) are for fun and planned, quick response. The Mags are there just in case the power goes out (fixed positions).

I’m getting back into the vintage C and D cell incans. I just bought a 5 cell Winchester and a few others. One is all copper, Ravovac 3xD. Light that is not powerful but it is a really cool looking light.

To be honest, most the flashlight uses I have around the home do not need 500 lumens. These old incans are fun around the house. For serious use, I have my LEDs but sometimes it’s nice just to have a nice warm Incan light. Kind of feels nostalgic. I’m old enough to remember when a 2xD cell Energizer “was” a flashlight.

I have a Streamlight Stinger xenon. I was wondering if it was worth converting and how to go about it without buying a $40 kit.

These 2 Streamlights and a few others. The Litebox was the first light I spent over $100 on.

I agreed till i used one recently, then i realized how much time glosses over bad memories :bigsmile:

Give me a Convoy M1 at 2.8A any day, its damn hard to beat in utility

Last week I dug up my Litebox-like lantern with a 55W H1 halogen bulb from a car and runs on a 6V lead-acid battery. They are dirt-cheap but only last a few minutes.

Sold the one incan flashlight I had — a MagLite Mini — about a week ago. Now, it’s only LEDs.

No I guess I don’t. But I do have a couple of these. Electric service is still unreliable where I live. I haven’t measured the total candle power on this but I’m sure it’s at least 5-6

I still have the $4 red 16 lumen flashlight that I think lasted half an hour on 2 AA’s. I haven’t used it lately, but I can’t see selling it.

I liked it, but haven’t used it much since getting a Sipik 68 clone about 2 years ago.

Nice! A guy in town apparently made decent money selling these during Y2K scare. I have a crank handled led one that looks like a Coleman lantern, and I just used a C8 on low to shower etc last winter when the power went out. About 0.4 A, I think, lasts well, plenty of light, I tail stood it

Yeah, electric lights are good and all but that oil will stay good forever and provides a decent heat source in the winter.

So that what? About one Texas Candle Power (TCP) :slight_smile:

Lol yeah that sounds about right

I have a minimag 2aa - I have been meaning to update it with a nice XML2 2900k 90 cri - but have been lazy

I still have a Princeton Tec Surge 8 AA dive light and a couple of Maglites. Every once in awhile I put batteries in them and scare myself with the ugly beam patterns and hepatitis ridden yellow light.

There’s one beautifully-made (IMNERHO, of course) incan I can’t seem to stop using. I hope someone has seen one … Here’s a picture, it’s all I have:

I bought 2 of the silver ones & lost track of from whom. I know it’s silly, but I do love the way they look sitting on a desk or table.

I’ve been trying to find an excuse to mod it, but everything inside is odd-sized and the way it’s made I almost need a machine shop to fab up parts. The biggest problem with it is I can no longer find any for sale so there’s no real point in making parts. “It gives a lovely light”, so any mod would have to be spectacular to be worth giving up the CRI of the burning wire. It uses the old-school Momentary (press)/Constant (twist) tailcap, which I happen to like a lot.

It only takes 2 CR123 batteries as the body inside diameter is ~17mm & boring it for 18650s would weaken/cut off the threads. :frowning: And with the little bullet-shaped 6v xenon bulb, it eats a pair of CR123’s rather quickly; but if I use LiIon it will supposedly fry the bulb. The only “upgrade” I can come up with is a bulb upgrade & 16340 batteries. As soon as I use up the rest of the CR123’s I’ve hoarded, that’s ‘to-do’.

I love the look, the UI and the light OTF, and would love to know what it is & where more can be found. If I could find more, that would cost-justify hiring a machinist to bore the heads to “standard” sizes for LEDs, Optics and drivers. I’d be willing to trade CRI for “Stupid-Bright NW”…

Sorry to interrupt. Thanks for reading.

Dim