Good grief!! Another year has passed already.
Being that the light bulb has gone the way of the honest politician (read: rare and getting more rare daily) it's not likely many of us bought 2017 model incan flashlights. Although Maglite did do the ML25 IT last year....
My incan collection grew rather briskly this year but was very few vintage lights from pre-1960's.
It began with Pentagons x1, eX2's, porcupines and x3's plus a bunch of spare bulbs. A couple more Pelican 2320's were also added. Pelican and Pentagon share(d) a lot of parts and designs.
One nifty one from about 1925 was found early in 017. A 9D Bright Star search n rescue light. I never did find an E10 bulb for it though. Well, I did find 12 volt E10's...
I also scored some WW2 and Korea era aviator lights by JustRite.
I picked up a number of 70's cop lights from Maglite, and LA Screw. Also some Don Keller companies like Kel-Lite, B-Lites, Sigma-Lite, Brinkmann and ProLight were scored. Some 80's Tekna, BrightStar solitaire clones, and a few nuggets by Maglite. I ended up with a prototype 2N Sigmalite that was never produced, one of 6 hi/low switch SnapOn promo Brinkmann Legends, one of a handfull of a Code 4 lights with a prototype switch rejected by folks at LA Screw and a rare Monadnock edition LA Screw light.
Late in the summer the SureFire bug bit and I scored some good deals on some classics from the 90's. One I never figured owning was found cheap. A Laser Products 6P. But A2's and E's were focus mainly. That and spare bulbs.
It's hard to pin down favorites but one stands out since I never figured on owning one. A big head 3D Kel-Lite like my daddy had. Then a 3D medium head Kel-Lite Don built for me to mimic the Radio Shack knock off my daddy had. A 2D Maglite like my daddy had was also acquired. So was a 2C Kel-Lite like my mom had. (I had already scored a 4C Maglite like she had in 016)
The early E1 and E2 by SureFire were also a couple of standouts as they are both early PK era numbers in gunmetal color.
The first light to arrive this year was an incan. An x2 Porcupine by Pentagon. The last light scheduled to arrive is an incan. A pX2 by Pentagon.
The coolest? Perhaps the 4C Kel-Lite that I beat out Don Keller himself for at an eBay auction. Yup it turned out the man himself had placed some bids but bowed out early as he wanted it for parts.
Being that the light bulb has gone the way of the honest politician (read: rare and getting more rare daily) it's not likely many of us bought 2017 model incan flashlights. Although Maglite did do the ML25 IT last year....
My incan collection grew rather briskly this year but was very few vintage lights from pre-1960's.
It began with Pentagons x1, eX2's, porcupines and x3's plus a bunch of spare bulbs. A couple more Pelican 2320's were also added. Pelican and Pentagon share(d) a lot of parts and designs.
One nifty one from about 1925 was found early in 017. A 9D Bright Star search n rescue light. I never did find an E10 bulb for it though. Well, I did find 12 volt E10's...
I also scored some WW2 and Korea era aviator lights by JustRite.
I picked up a number of 70's cop lights from Maglite, and LA Screw. Also some Don Keller companies like Kel-Lite, B-Lites, Sigma-Lite, Brinkmann and ProLight were scored. Some 80's Tekna, BrightStar solitaire clones, and a few nuggets by Maglite. I ended up with a prototype 2N Sigmalite that was never produced, one of 6 hi/low switch SnapOn promo Brinkmann Legends, one of a handfull of a Code 4 lights with a prototype switch rejected by folks at LA Screw and a rare Monadnock edition LA Screw light.
Late in the summer the SureFire bug bit and I scored some good deals on some classics from the 90's. One I never figured owning was found cheap. A Laser Products 6P. But A2's and E's were focus mainly. That and spare bulbs.
It's hard to pin down favorites but one stands out since I never figured on owning one. A big head 3D Kel-Lite like my daddy had. Then a 3D medium head Kel-Lite Don built for me to mimic the Radio Shack knock off my daddy had. A 2D Maglite like my daddy had was also acquired. So was a 2C Kel-Lite like my mom had. (I had already scored a 4C Maglite like she had in 016)
The early E1 and E2 by SureFire were also a couple of standouts as they are both early PK era numbers in gunmetal color.
The first light to arrive this year was an incan. An x2 Porcupine by Pentagon. The last light scheduled to arrive is an incan. A pX2 by Pentagon.
The coolest? Perhaps the 4C Kel-Lite that I beat out Don Keller himself for at an eBay auction. Yup it turned out the man himself had placed some bids but bowed out early as he wanted it for parts.
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