Tons of Aleph stuff listed there. Looks ancient. I imagine that even though there’s a shopping cart, there’s nothing really there for sale eh?
… and most are still incan.
Theres just something about flashlights from your childhood that you don
t really get with new modern ones, …
Maybe it is the incandescent bulb they use. Even if you use high color rendering leds, for demanding lads & lasses they probably don't make the grade due to cut corners in their spectrum.
Dunno if it qualifies as “really old”, but I still use my '502 with 1-mode 5000K XP-L drop-in.
Simple on/off, pretty decent beam, bright without becoming a curling-iron in 5min, really nice hand-feel.
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Certain stuff simply fit your frequency better than others. I edc my turbo :-D SK98 quite often, not only it fits well in my pocket, it exudes that special charm that (for me) DIY stuff has, especially when you have messed and improved nearly every non obvious aspect of it.