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Re: [OM] Out of the Dark

Subject: Re: [OM] Out of the Dark
From: "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:23:35 -0500
I'm sorry but I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the utility of a 10 gazillion candle power flashlight. I guess if you really wanted to take niighttime walks through the lion exhibit at your local zoo, maybe, but how does one use this? Baking frozen pizza in a blackout?

-----Original Message----- From: ChrisB
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 3:19 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Out of the Dark

I’m starting to feel out-classed here. I thought that I was a serious torch (and bag and jacket) fetishist, but I really only small fry :-)

Chris

On 25 Aug 2015, at 19:56, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

However, the real "Shilleagh" is the Ray-O-Vac Sportsman that was owned by my late father-in-law. This thing has 5 D-cells and weighs 2 1/4 pounds. I throws a hot beam as far as I can see it. (It is also a corrosion magnet.
:-( ).

My dad has one of those. Yes, it's a beast and it is certainly a
corrosion magnet. But it was very good in its day. While he's got a
myriad of pen lights and so forth, that beast has resided under his
bed for at least 50 years.

One brother had taken a couple of them and made a really big version
of it. Probably nine or 10 cells. Man, was it huge. He became a police
officer and converted over to MAGLites, but always tinkered with
taking things to extremes. For example, he converted one of the
nightstick ones from D-Cell to a fat array of AA-cells. Went to higher
voltage halagon bulbs. Not sure what he has now, but I'm sure it's out
there. He even converted a 500,000 candlepower spotlight into a
flashlight once.

It's a Norton thing to this this kind of crazy stuff. I went nuts with
kites, he went nuts with flashlights.

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