flashlight fetish

[MAD777]

MAD777 shows his awesome display, and NOW ven is going around collecting all of his flashlights which he will probably need 1 or 2 days to find :-P

That display does NOT belong to me!
But ven will take at least a week to round up his!

 

[bykfixer]

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...5-of-my-entire-flashlight-collection-(photos)
This guy can quit anytime.

 

[Wendee]

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...5-of-my-entire-flashlight-collection-(photos)
This guy can quit anytime.

:ooo: Wow!

 

[MAD777]

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...5-of-my-entire-flashlight-collection-(photos)
This guy can quit anytime.

Obviously, he CANNOT quit!

 

[ven]

Ven, how many flashlights reside in your household?

Not as many as Dens!!!! :laughing:

Actually in the house all together including Callum's , maybe only 70- 80 give / take, at a guess(never counted). Callum accounts for at least 30! At work maybe up to 10 more......

 

[Crazyeddiethefirst]

Wow, Den makes me feel so much better! I can't believe some of the stuff I am putting in storage so I can justify taking more lights, batteries, Chargers and the rest of the "support gear" required for our passion. We are doing a "double move", something I swore I would never do again(last time the house we were having built was not done when our home sold, thus the double move) in addition, we are moving directly across the street for the next 4 months (something I did once before and also swore I would never do again).
The lights I wanted to take each & everyone of is my Four Sevens....these got me on the road to the passion for light and have been so dependable and gotten me out is so many jams, some life threatening and they always came through...
I have to say, Ven has one of the best collections...
Since SAR is near and dear to my heart, he is the friend I would most want to accompany me on a rescue...too bad there is an ocean in the way. And my dear friends who had the sailboat capable of an around the world trip just split up so that dream is on hold again.
I may be absent for a bit between the move and surgery next week(removing my lithium powered devices for the medical equivalent of a "Driver VN" pain pacemaker...looks like I need another titanium knee too. When they did the last one they refused to do implanted LEDS, but maybe now they will....Terminator proved that without the LED lighting a Terminator is just another machine....

 

[Tre_Asay]

I am actually loosing interest in flashlights :sick:. I am happy with what I have now and I managed to spend less than $1000 I think. Really I only use two lights now, my main edc and my headlamp ($500 right there). Huh I never considered that I edc $500 worth of flashlights every day :huh:. If I get another one for myself it would be minimum $550 for what I am thinking about as my next up flashlights. Two more $1125, Three more ~$4000. The more flashlights I buy the more expensive my tastes get. Same goes for anything I guess because we always are looking for something better and not for a downgrade.

I am getting more into photography which gets very expensive faster than flashlights, eg my first camera was $330 and my second will be at least $800.

 

[wolfgaze]

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...5-of-my-entire-flashlight-collection-(photos)
This guy can quit anytime.

Oh man that post from Capolini asking Den about activating them all at once IN THE SAME ROOM cracked me up!

:laughing:

 

[wolfgaze]

Not as many as Dens!!!! :laughing:

Actually in the house all together including Callum's , maybe only 70- 80 give / take, at a guess(never counted). Callum accounts for at least 30! At work maybe up to 10 more......

Thanks for the response.... Was curious for awhile....

 

[MAD777]

In case someone wasn't aware of this thread...
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?87150-list-your-lights

 

[ven]

Thanks for the response.... Was curious for awhile....

At the start it was more new model, must buy it kind of thing. Now I have thinned the herd quite a bit. Many standard lights gone , now more custom or modified and neutral tints. Still have a few CW though, more on thrower types but prefer 5000k on average. EDC lights down to 4000k ish for a slightly warmer close up use tint.

Still have too many , still try and balance them out to not end up with too many surplus lights. Right now pretty much all serve a use/purpose .

 

[bykfixer]

When you start dreaming of how to attach this to a Maglite....


Or this....
No problems with addiction....

But watch out for the lanyard addiction




Nah, this place won't cause a problem.


This was my collection before Malkoff flu and a SureFire 6P changed my life forever.

Be warned: Malkoff products or a SureFire 6P's have been known to cause uncontrolable urges to buy more flashlights.

 

[MAD777]

Aghhhh, lanyard management! Now that's a serious problem I deal with daily. For real, really!

My son who is into flashlights but never uses the lanyards, makes fun of me because my lanyards are all tangled up in the box of flashlights.

 

[ven]

Cool collection !


So that's out of the top draw mr fixer, where are the other 341 lights :poke:

 

[bykfixer]

Cool collection !


So that's out of the top draw mr fixer, where are the other 341 lights :poke:

I'm thinking perhaps for the American independence day assembling a bunch in a pattern to mimic the American flag (similar to that cpf thing I did) ... including all 50 stars. lol


The (spare) NIP are starting to pile up.

 

[ven]

:laughing:

why am I sat here fantasising about diving in there and undoing all those boxes.......am I normal:crazy:

 

[bykfixer]

:laughing:

why am I sat here fantasising about diving in there and undoing all those boxes.......am I normal:crazy:

They are all duplicates. SureFires, Mags, Icons and others I found at great prices along with some that I liked enough to buy spares of.

I used to collect bicycles too. The yellow one is too big for a shelf and the red one (left of the yellow one) is a custom made 1940's style frame with a reproduction 2 speed back wheel where you back pedal to shift from low to high or back to low. The crank and cog sizes were assembled to provide an easy pedaling (granny gear) low gear for take off with a high gear to provide a nice top end. The saddle is a one of a kind and the grips are 1910's style padded leather on 32" gull-wing handlebars. The wheels are chromed steel reproduction 1940's newspaper bike type with original super thick spokes. I'm still searching for the brick pattern tires of the time.

Here it is when it first arrived and I tried 36" Texas steer bars on it. Hated 'em. Went back to 28"gull-wing bars until I found a 32" bar.

Can't see in the pic...

These are the assembled ones, not including the BMX collection...



Like this John Purse signature racer once owned by... John Purse himself.
On the brake cable is the paper tag where he finished 3rd at a local race track.



An assortment of GT and Hoffmans hang disassembled in the ceiling.



This is a 2011 Shcwinn Wayfarer converted to a 1911 style racer. It was a grams matter build where every part on it was the lightest ones I could find including hollow axles, wire thin spokes, and other parts that were weighed before installation. Cogs are custom sized for crazy fast take offs and smile inducing top ends. It is scary fast.


The yellow was a limited edition 1974 only model that has 1975 in the serial number... the only known one in existence. See Schwinn made 500. But they were a flop. So some were left in the pipeline in 75. Those were stamped with a '75 serial number. It is not known how many there are actually, but mine is the only one 'documented'.


Here is the yellow one.

It was restored by a bike shop owner who passed the time while die-ing of cancer by restoring bicycles he'd never gotten around to. I was one of his best customers due to fixing up junky big box store bicycles for local kids. He had bought a literal truck load of 1970's and 80's parts from a defunct shop. So for me it was a gold mine of well made items that he sold for fire-sale prices. For him it paid his shop rent. It was a win-win.

When he passed away his wife sold it to the head mechanic who closed it a few months later.

 

[ven]

On ya bike!!

Sorry could not resist........cool, your certainly a collectamani............cool dude:cool:

Still want to dive in those boxes :laughing:

 

[RoyWalker]

Looking at Mad's, I don't feel nearly so bad. Makes the nights come ALIVE.

 

[thecaretaker]

I think we all do have a flashlight fetish.. Although my wife considers me a fanatic (5 flashlights at the moment), i think i am not that of an addict as you guys that own like 20 of them or more.. Still, Ill catch up with you in due time :)