YAK-28
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I used my nitecore tipse to find the missing cat toys hidden under the furniture by the growing kittens.
What did you use your flashlight for today?
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Jean-Luc Descarte
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Used my S3 to clean out a clogged accordion drain pipe. Or, rather, my mother held the S3 while I did the job.
IMA SOL MAN
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Had my better half use my MM pro+ to illuminate a sore on the sole of my foot while she dressed it for me. It's good to be the king! 
Yesterday I used my Surefire EDC1-DFT to light the way to an island some friends and I were duck hunting behind on the ICW. It out performed or matched the Stanley Fatmax spotlights we've used for years. I also used a Fenix HP25r 2.0 to place decoys and anchor the boat. Between those two lights I can cover most situations I encounter on the water.
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I used a FourSevens Mini MkIII mounted to a welding helmet to light up the work area while I spot welded 18 gauge sheet metal to repair a large hole in my classic car's floor pan.
Toulouse42
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Dropped a sewing needle on the carpeted floor. My wife often goes barefoot so I used my Lumintop Tool AA to find it.
PhotonWrangler
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Good for you for finding it. I'd also suggest a magnetic sweeper for moments like this.
Fuzzywuzzies
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Some years ago a I was visiting a friend when his teenage daughter dropped a small needle on the carpet. While looking for it (in bare feet) she unknowingly flicked it up with her foot, and it entered a vein in the side of her ankle. (That's potentially lethal, FWIW)
She felt it go in, but then couldn't feel it and thought it had come out again. We quickly realised it wasn't back on the floor, and my friend, who happens to be a most excellent doctor, immediately took charge. He pinched one of the main veins in the area to reduce blood flow, and we picked her up and put her on the kitchen table, and he called out "light, scalpel" to one of his other children. I can't recal if it was my maglight or someone else's light, but his son appeared seconds later with the kit bag, and in another few seconds my friend was feeling along the vein from the entry site. The needle had travelled around 50mm if I remember rightly, and there was quite a lot of blood as he cut it out. The needle kept trying to move further up her leg, so he had to make a couple of incisions, and withdraw it with a small set of forceps.
Quite the drama, and a bit of careful dressing and painkillers afterward, but it avoided a potentially lethal situation.
Another reminder that carrying good tools (incluing a good torch!) and knowing how to use them, can be very important indeed.
PhotonWrangler
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Wow. 50mm is a lot of movement!Some years ago a I was visiting a friend when his teenage daughter dropped a small needle on the carpet. While looking for it (in bare feet) she unknowingly flicked it up with her foot, and it entered a vein in the side of her ankle. (That's potentially lethal, FWIW)
She felt it go in, but then couldn't feel it and thought it had come out again. We quickly realised it wasn't back on the floor, and my friend, who happens to be a most excellent doctor, immediately took charge. He pinched one of the main veins in the area to reduce blood flow, and we picked her up and put her on the kitchen table, and he called out "light, scalpel" to one of his other children. I can't recal if it was my maglight or someone else's light, but his son appeared seconds later with the kit bag, and in another few seconds my friend was feeling along the vein from the entry site. The needle had travelled around 50mm if I remember rightly, and there was quite a lot of blood as he cut it out. The needle kept trying to move further up her leg, so he had to make a couple of incisions, and withdraw it with a small set of forceps.
Quite the drama, and a bit of careful dressing and painkillers afterward, but it avoided a potentially lethal situation.
Another reminder that carrying good tools (incluing a good torch!) and knowing how to use them, can be very important indeed.
Kitchen Panda
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You might be a flashaholic if you find yourself asking which flashlight you will use to read the water meter.
Surefire 6P w/16650 and LF components!
Fuzzywuzzies
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Yeah, in the moment I knew it could be serious, but it was only talking afterwards with my friend, whose hands were shaking, that I realised just what a close thing it was. I had no idea that needles could even traverse veins without getting stuck. I haven't kept in very good touch with them, but I understand that she is happily married now.
Grilled tonight in the SE PA cold. 28 degrees F.
Jean-Luc Descarte
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New fear unlocked.Some years ago a I was visiting a friend when his teenage daughter dropped a small needle on the carpet. While looking for it (in bare feet) she unknowingly flicked it up with her foot, and it entered a vein in the side of her ankle. (That's potentially lethal, FWIW)
She felt it go in, but then couldn't feel it and thought it had come out again. We quickly realised it wasn't back on the floor, and my friend, who happens to be a most excellent doctor, immediately took charge. He pinched one of the main veins in the area to reduce blood flow, and we picked her up and put her on the kitchen table, and he called out "light, scalpel" to one of his other children. I can't recal if it was my maglight or someone else's light, but his son appeared seconds later with the kit bag, and in another few seconds my friend was feeling along the vein from the entry site. The needle had travelled around 50mm if I remember rightly, and there was quite a lot of blood as he cut it out. The needle kept trying to move further up her leg, so he had to make a couple of incisions, and withdraw it with a small set of forceps.
Quite the drama, and a bit of careful dressing and painkillers afterward, but it avoided a potentially lethal situation.
Another reminder that carrying good tools (incluing a good torch!) and knowing how to use them, can be very important indeed.
IMA SOL MAN
Flashlight Enthusiast
Outside grillers (my son included) must be some of the nuttiest people alive. They have a perfectly good stove/oven in a climate controlled room, but they choose to go all pre-historic caveman and cook outside in the seasonal weather. Okay, I've had my days of camping with the Boy Scouts, but I count that as different. Grillers live in another world. Spend hundreds of dollars on grills and stand outside in all kinds of weather to do what they could do inside in comfort...gotta be some kind of mental aberration there. My son does it, and I just shake my head. I just don't understand it.
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rwolfenstein
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I plugged the oil heater into an outlet where I had a lot going on. Popped the breaker and I had to wander out to the garage to stare at the 1950s era fuse panel to figure out which one went off. I used a (I know its surprising for even me to say) Protact HL-X with a factory 18650 battery in it.
The wear on that Surefire looks fantastic
Somewhere on my old hard drive I have a picture of me standing waist deep in snow BBQ'ing while holding up a thermometer. It reads - 56*c (-63*C with wind chill) It was so cold I had to bring the propane tank inside for several hours to warm up before I could light the grill. I had to finish the steak inside on the stove because the tank froze faster than the steak could cook.
