Good to hear that it was retrieved! At the rate your story was going, I was expecting it ended with your wife buying a replacement off of Zebralight’s website. Glad to know that despite those cleaning people keeping the light, they did return it once OUTTED.
I once lost a Jetbeam U. I had on a pair of shorts with a thin pocket rim… the clip wasn’t holding on as tightly as I had expected. End of day, went to reach for it… not there. Never found. But… $11, so no cries.
Lost my RovyVon Aurora A8 once… that thing is smaller than my pinky finger. I hadn’t been in the habit of using the loop to lasso it to a lanyard or strap. Well, I finally found it. It slipped underneath something else and I just kept missing it until one day I did a bag dump. Now, it’s on my house keyring with spring loaded clip. Just detached it yesterday when I went for a late evening kayak round. Clipped the thing to the kayak’s bungee cord. “Don’t need no flashies—what a useless feature!” Huh. Well, sure was useful to me. My kayak was resoundingly visible because I had it in yellow double-flash beacon mode. It even illuminated boat buoys in the shallow end of the bay so I could avoid them. Had the thing flashing for well over an hour and the primary still had plenty of juice. Not a bad little light after all.
Bummer! Well, the good thing is that headlamp choices are so numerous now. You can find one with a better tint quite easily. Took a look at your Instagram. Real old school stuff there. Nice collection!
lol, i wont ask, i have my own, tools i care about much more than lights, can’t remember when i lost tools, lights otoh, are disposable items, some more some less, i do not care much about them.
I lost a custom S2+ (must have slipped out of my jacket pocket on a trail).
I’m more bummed because it was a light that I spent time modifying. All black. It had a dedomed 519A 2700k / 10003-15 Carclo optic / 5A 12 grp driver and reverse switch. It’s not a huge loss but I hope whoever finds it can put it to good use.
But… a friend of mine, a top machinist (Texas Lumens) told me about making a one-off custom that took him 17 hours just to program the CNC to perform! It was a lizard wrapped around the light, very detailed and even air between underbelly and light, ultra realistic… $2500 light! The customer was deep sea fishing and tossed it to his buddy who missed the catch! One ultra fancy uber expensive custom light on the bottom of the ocean!
Dan told me the guy called him then and there on his satellite phone and ordered a replacement!
OG Inova X1, lost about a decade ago, probably when I was dismantling the flat-pack furniture it was stored in. Might have ended up in another box or a crevice of my garage. I hope I didn’t leave an alkaline cell in it.
About 3 years ago I think I packed up about 20 lights to show my brother coming into town an array of AA/ 14500 and a ton of 2xAA lights plus god knows what . These were from my personal collection and most weren’t duplicates . The fact that they’re still missing is bad but there remains the plaguing gnawing fear that if they ever show up … something will have alkalines in it instead of nimh . I’d actually kind of like to have the 25 eneloops as well .
Also I’m pretty sure there’s a defiant super thrower somewhere with some rotting C cells in it too .
This is the price we pay for having too many lights .
IYP07 Black host, Nichia 219c 4000k, it was such an amazing light, close to perfect tint, perfect output for around the house, dissappeared in the pocket, so well, it did just that. 1 out of over 200 lights, doen to 158 currently, I do have 4 trade lights in route, this hobby is addicting;)
Factor Equipment Mizpah 130 lost out of my pocket.
I had the head of a Prometheus Beta QR come off of the body and go missing. I still have the body in case the head turns up, but it’s been a couple of years, so I doubt it.
My wife had a Mizpah 130 and inadvertently left it laying at her work station, and the next day it was gone.
