…unless anyone wants some of the parts?
Still works! :~
What’s the crappiest light you’ve come across recently?
Good ol’ alkaleaks. But it still looks to me like it could be salvaged and made into a either a 3s AA or 3p 14500. It’s the bottom end contact that needs r&r.
I seriously thought about it! 
But it was junk even when new. Not a very efficient or comfortable design, switch requires constant fairly firm force to make good contact, just not a winner. I decided if I were going to basically make a light from scratch, I’d find some other piece of household debris to use as a “host”!
You could mod it, but in the end its not really worth doing so
I would use a 105C with one chip, and XM-L squeezed onto a mini heatsink inside the case, fasttech seems to sell lots of them
I had one of those when I was a kid. I remember it being pretty bright. Maybe I wore it out but the switch on the one I had was easy to squeeze and hold.
edit: I would have mentioned it in the ‘boyhood flashlight’ thread but only remembered it after seeing the photo. The one I had was a metal case with two screws holding it together.
I bet he could get 3000 lumens out of it! :evil:
I’ve got a few of those disposable lights, LED versions. They make good lights for kids, because who cares what happens to them? When the battery died, I cut them open and stuck in new alkaleaks (or sometimes old NiMH rechargeables), and gave them back to the kids. For disposable lights, they’re remarkably reusable, and they last quite awhile on a new set of batteries. They’re not very bright, but that’s good for kids. Since they’re fairly big, they’re difficult to lose.
Sure, a 1xAA light ordered from China is just as inexpensive, and probably more reliable, but they tend to go missing more often. I kind of like reusing something that is specifically designed to be thrown away.
Me too, but this light had already been through that treatment… The Procell AAs sure weren’t stock! I had pried it apart years ago, replaced batteries, and taped it back together. I’ve gotten more than my money’s worth. 
That is a classic, throw it out and someday you will wish you hadn’t.
Keep it and you will NEVER have a use for it.
Either way, you can’t win.
^ In Verbo Veritatus ^
I don’t know why it works like that but it almost always does. If I still had the “junk” I disposed of and had junked the stuff I saved, I could retire right now and I wouldn’t have a house and shed full of junk to clean out!
Phil
This is a silly device, not a vintage lantern (a la DBSAR collection)
I'm surprised no one mentioned it yet. Drop a P60 drop-in into it, sure a little would protrude out the front. Hock that spacer in between the AA batteries out then maybe a 18650 would then fit? Wire it up and bada bing bada boom!
and kaboom
you could build a holder for the third battery and then add an emitter, a switch , some diffuser film , a heatsink , a driver and then you’d have 8$ in a bad peice of garbage …or you could buy a blf nichia 219B AAA light ,…an 8$ G700 or four 2$ lights twice as good as this one .
So… I take it nobody wants the parts? 
I could list it in the trade forum if this isn’t the right category…
Start a new thread “trash for cash”
Maybe donate it to the Smithsonian? :bigsmile: