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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