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    30 year old Cateye.

    I have a reflector I'm not going to give the police any excuse. Also I took apart the light drilled a hole in the back and ran a screw through it so it bolts directly to my rack.
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    30 year old Cateye.

    I bought a 2AA Cateye red flasher in 1996. A bicycle shop went out of business and I found a clear and a yellow lens for it. Cateyes are legal reflectors but my guess is only if you use the red lens. The light still works and has been on my bicycles since I bought it. It is nice and bright with...
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    R.I.P. - Brigitte Bardot.

    Her dad was the president of Liquid Air.
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    Work wear

    I've had 4 pairs of Carhartt FR pants they call PPE from 38 to 78 percent Kevlar. They will last twice as long as regular pants. The problem I had with my laest one is the wallet had a tendancy of falling out of my pocket. When they wore out I rendered them down to fabric and put them in...
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    New Fenix Catalog 2026

    I wonder if any one at Fenix has ever rode a bicycle.
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    Destructive Incan Tests - Graphs (Updated 9-20-09)

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    Work wear

    I have had several Carhartt pants from 38 to 78 percent aramid. Their loose fit is a tight fit with my 25 inch legs. The problem I had with these is the wallet tended to fall out of my pocket. Aramid Kevlar Nomex is great for abrasion resistance. Other aramid brands generally are tighter in the...
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    Post those >100,000mi vehicles

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    Purple street light tear down.

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    Purple street light tear down.

    Just pulled apart another one that had been downed by a tree limb. This one had a 100 percent detachment of the phosphorus of the 30 LEDs. I had theorized the fall off was caused by salt corrosion but that is not a problem in Kentucky. It may be they are falling off due to freezing. Below is a...
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    Zefal red coin cell.

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    Zefal red coin cell.

    This light was under a bridge for a long time. So much so the bicycle it was attached to was rusted solid. The CR2032 cells still had power. The switch didn't work so I tried to take it apart. I used a socket and a hammer to try to punch the plastic through and damaged the threads instead. The...
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    How many AA-cell adapters in Maglite ML300L 4D?

    You can probably run it on 5 10 or 15 batteries. Put 5 in a tube of PVC then pack the outside with foam. 4 D batteries will be 6.4V and 5 NiMh batteries will be 7V. I have done this with old radios without any problems.
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    Chatting with the Georgia Power Ai

    I was sitting in the library when I heard an expolsion followed by a power outage. The librarian got on the phone to report an outage and the AI was unable to understand her voice much less what she was reporting. The AI asker her for her social security number which is a violation of the 1935...
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    Flashlights in TV shows and movies (Part 4)

    I'm watching an episode of infiniti. The tactical armor has 500000 lumens for 10 seconds. They just white out the screens. Just anogther zombie TV show so I'm not going to waste my time on it.
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    What is white?

    The bicycle laws in some states require bicycle lights be white. The eye sees yellow more efficiently than blue light. Blue light has been proven to damage eyes in excess quanities. I advocate moving away from the phosphorus coated blue or ultraviolet toward a yellow LED and a blue LED...
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    Cheapest Flashlights Money can buy ( There About's )

    I always keep a light in my bicycle bag that I can hold with my teeth. The $4 Rayovac two AA is good for that.
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    Trump saves the lightbulb!

    I never understood the fuss. A light bulb is 100 percent efficent if it is also being used as heat. The I M Pei library in Columbus was designed to use light bulbs only for heat. I worked as quality control for Colorcraft. We used 1500 watt bulbs with a life of 40 hours. They cranked out much...
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    Storm Checkin

    I've cycled through several hurricains. Before that I hit 80mph winds in south dakota and Utah.
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    Using complex numbers.

    When I came across the idea I had a bit of difficulty understanding it. I now know why the problem solved itself. Starting with the basics here the general idea is current equals force divided by resistance. In Englisgh units this is amps equals volts divided by ohms. For some reason...

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