Afternoon lightfiends...
I popped in here a while ago when I was after a new torch for the old man and ended up with a rather splendid TN4A for his birthday a few years ago(2015).
When I was around there yesterday I noticed he had a new budget supermarket job. Basically, the Thrunite had been dropped and the reflector shattered and the whole thing gave up. Thrunite weren't interested unless he paid £50 for the repair-more than the torch costs new.
The point of this rambling post(I love a story me), is that the Thrunite is supposed to be impact resistant to 2 meters, and clearly isn't - or at least is only if it lands on a cushion. I have a 20 year old D cell maglite which I swapped the bulb for an LED a few years ago, and that's worked flawlessly despite being used as a torch, door stop, and a hammer! My son has big plastic Lego man torch that I think we could chuck out of the window and it would still work fine.
I was wondering why there is an endless stream of fantastic looking/feeling machined torches, with mega outputs but from what I can see, not many that combine this with a durable workhorse body that you don't have to be precious over.
The Coast Polysteel 600 looks almost perfect for me - no idea if it's any cop, but it's missing a really low power mode, which I find dead handy.
Am I missing something?
Cheers,
D.
I popped in here a while ago when I was after a new torch for the old man and ended up with a rather splendid TN4A for his birthday a few years ago(2015).
When I was around there yesterday I noticed he had a new budget supermarket job. Basically, the Thrunite had been dropped and the reflector shattered and the whole thing gave up. Thrunite weren't interested unless he paid £50 for the repair-more than the torch costs new.
The point of this rambling post(I love a story me), is that the Thrunite is supposed to be impact resistant to 2 meters, and clearly isn't - or at least is only if it lands on a cushion. I have a 20 year old D cell maglite which I swapped the bulb for an LED a few years ago, and that's worked flawlessly despite being used as a torch, door stop, and a hammer! My son has big plastic Lego man torch that I think we could chuck out of the window and it would still work fine.
I was wondering why there is an endless stream of fantastic looking/feeling machined torches, with mega outputs but from what I can see, not many that combine this with a durable workhorse body that you don't have to be precious over.
The Coast Polysteel 600 looks almost perfect for me - no idea if it's any cop, but it's missing a really low power mode, which I find dead handy.
Am I missing something?
Cheers,
D.