Fuddy1952
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- South Central Virginia
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- 1973 Economy and 2018 John Deere 3038E
Anyone here (besides me) collect flashlights? I have my Grandfather's Eveready he had in WWI, he was a Lieutenant, so it's 100+ years old. Every time I see an old flashlight in an antique store I buy it, amazing how inefficient those incandescents were.
In 1970 we used to go to a place that sold government surplus stuff...most of it in sealed boxes. Guy would get a delivery every Friday so we went early Saturday morning. Everything 15 cents/pound. I found an airplane landing light, 12 volts. I made a holder for it, wired to a cigarette lighter plug.
Large light, we would do mischief with it from the car. My friend would drive. Going down our expressway it would turn all the street lights off by shining on it's photocell.
At a sub division we stopped, you could see people watching TV. I as aimed it at TV then turned it on a couple seconds. Whole room lit up. Then we could tell a guy was getting out of recliner...I waited until he yanked curtains back...hit him with the light. He staggered back falling over a coffee table.
We were mischievous kids!
One house we stopped in front of we could barely see someone standing at a window. I turned light on and it was some girl washing dishes which she dropped. Light off...we were laughing until granny stepped outside with a revolver peeling shots off!
I hit her with the light as we laid rubber!
That light had to be a lot of lumens!
In 1970 we used to go to a place that sold government surplus stuff...most of it in sealed boxes. Guy would get a delivery every Friday so we went early Saturday morning. Everything 15 cents/pound. I found an airplane landing light, 12 volts. I made a holder for it, wired to a cigarette lighter plug.
Large light, we would do mischief with it from the car. My friend would drive. Going down our expressway it would turn all the street lights off by shining on it's photocell.
At a sub division we stopped, you could see people watching TV. I as aimed it at TV then turned it on a couple seconds. Whole room lit up. Then we could tell a guy was getting out of recliner...I waited until he yanked curtains back...hit him with the light. He staggered back falling over a coffee table.
We were mischievous kids!
One house we stopped in front of we could barely see someone standing at a window. I turned light on and it was some girl washing dishes which she dropped. Light off...we were laughing until granny stepped outside with a revolver peeling shots off!
I hit her with the light as we laid rubber!That light had to be a lot of lumens!
