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Do it yourself: Cheap flashlight turned into a hot shot torch
When tinkering with our home theater stuff, we often need a good, bright (but small) flashlight to sort things out in that spaghetti bowl of cables. But who wants to spend three hundred bucks on one of those super-bright cop flashlights when you can just modify a cheap $10 one in a jiffy?
It's a fairly simple matter of making room for more-powerful lithium batteries and replacing a ho-hum bulb with a krypton lamp bright enough to make Superman nervous. So here’s that silver-tongued infomercial-sounding guy, demonstrating how to do this mod that might light up your life when that next summer gully-washer's lightning takes the power away.
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By Duckie at 5:17 PM ON 07/31/08
That's real ghetto and all, but there is a REASON why they build those high-end thingies out of METAL. This stuff will generate so much heat that you can probably burn it for about half an hour before it just melts away
By Luminator at 2:23 PM ON 08/02/08
Very cool... and very cheap way to get some light. Personally though I am still using my GatLight - just got the latest version from Lumencraft with 250 Lumen... granted very expensive... but that's the only light I ever need... however I am gonna give your mod a shot.. to see how it compares.
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Luminator:
Very cool... and very cheap way to get some light. Personally though I am still using my GatLight - just got the la...More »