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 startedsmoking
  
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Gender: Male
 |  |  |  |  | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 40 on 11/22/2006 11:03 PM >
|  | | | Recently i've been using my AA mini Maglite a lot because i've been running the stage management for a couple of plays at my student theatre. Maglites are kinda part of the unofficial uniform. So much so that you have to colour code your own with LX tape to stop it getting lost...
Anyway, things i like about the Mag:
Cheap: picked it up at Home Depot for $10 or something last summer
Durable: I must have dropped that thing 1000 times, i used it as a lever, i bashed nails (little ones) in with it, it's fallen down my stairwell at 3AM, i've dropped bits of set on it, i've even let actors (who have the annoying ability to break everything they come into contact with) and so on and it's works fine. Bit scratched, but honestly i think it looks nicer with some scratches.
Things i don't like about it:
Brightness: Though initially very bright this spiralled down rapidly.
Running cost: It eat batteries like i eat pudding.
I still might get a bigger one though....
[last edit 11/22/2006 11:05 PM by startedsmoking - edited 1 times]
"take nothing but pictures, leaving nothing but footprints...unless it would be really fun" |
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bobby bullshlt
Location: New York, NY
How many black dots are there?
| | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 41 on 11/23/2006 7:53 AM >
| | | | I think I can sum up this thread pretty well:
We got the maglite guys saying "bigger is better", and then we got the Surefire guys saying "It's the motion that matters." You'll be the judge...
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Matteo
 
Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada
Gender: Male
Current Mayonnaise stock: 1.67 Litres
| | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 42 on 11/24/2006 7:07 AM >
| | | | Posted by bobby bullshlt
I think I can sum up this thread pretty well:
We got the maglite guys saying "bigger is better", and then we got the Surefire guys saying "It's the motion that matters." You'll be the judge...
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I think there is more to it than that. I think people use what they are used to and know. I like Mag, but have tried something new, I got a Streamlight Propolymer, and it's great, but I, like many, don't feel it is as sturdy as a mag of similar size. Some people like the security of a bit of a bigger light that they feel they could use defensively. At best my Streamlight could get a good hearty laugh out of a perceived attacker.. whereas the Mag could possibly cause some pretty severe head trauma. I'm not advocating maglight beatings by any means, but as usual preferences vary wildly.
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bobby bullshlt
Location: New York, NY
How many black dots are there?
| | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 43 on 11/29/2006 8:51 AM >
| | | | 4D LED maglite = uber awesome =-P
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Deuterium
  
Location: PNW
Gender: Male
| | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 44 on 11/29/2006 11:45 AM >
| | | | Posted by bobby bullshlt
4D LED maglite = uber awesome =-P
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I NEVER use mine. It weighs a ton and is unnecessarily cumbersome. it offers me no protection against getting caught the security guards/authorities either.
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Twat
Location: Denver-ish, Colorado
Gender: Female
| | |  | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 45 on 11/30/2006 8:37 AM >
| | | | My 4D maglite's most recent use: Bashing the back of a crazed stalker-ex-boyfriend on the back of the head.
*Edited because, no imprez, I checked. My mag is not 6D.
[last edit 11/30/2006 9:34 AM by Twat - edited 2 times]
And my sins are so unoriginal.
I have all the self-loathing of a wolf in sheep's clothing
In this carnival of cannibals, Heaven help me |
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startedsmoking
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Gender: Male
| | | | | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 46 on 12/1/2006 3:26 AM >
| | | | Posted by Twat
My 4D maglite's most recent use: Bashing the back of a crazed stalker-ex-boyfriend on the back of the head.
*Edited because, no imprez, I checked. My mag is not 6D.
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Remind me never to stalk you. ever. i like my skull the shape it is.
"take nothing but pictures, leaving nothing but footprints...unless it would be really fun" |
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Twat
Location: Denver-ish, Colorado
Gender: Female
| | | | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 47 on 12/1/2006 8:30 AM >
| | | | Posted by startedsmoking
Remind me never to stalk you. ever. i like my skull the shape it is.
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Oh I hope I gave him a speech impediment. I hit him right in Wernyk's area.
And my sins are so unoriginal.
I have all the self-loathing of a wolf in sheep's clothing
In this carnival of cannibals, Heaven help me |
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Happiedaze
Location: Galveston Area, TX
Gender: Female
| |  | | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 48 on 12/2/2006 5:54 PM >
| | | | Posted by Twat
Oh I hope I gave him a speech impediment. I hit him right in Wernyk's area.
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Twat...
Interesting name.
'Our plans are all laid out,
take all these unmarked roads,
we blaze the trails to places no one goes, yeah!' -Rise Against |
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Twat
Location: Denver-ish, Colorado
Gender: Female
| | | | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 49 on 12/2/2006 8:49 PM >
| | | | Posted by Happiedaze
Twat...
Interesting name.
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It's been my longest running nickname, thusly dubbed by my bassist over a year ago. It's just stuck. Short and Sweet, mildly offensive, quite appropriate.
And my sins are so unoriginal.
I have all the self-loathing of a wolf in sheep's clothing
In this carnival of cannibals, Heaven help me |
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Bones
Location: st.paul, minnesota
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 50 on 12/5/2006 11:44 PM >
| | | | I love my maglites, I got the 3-d, and the mini-mag. I love them.
out and under the town |
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Orogeny
Location: 39 degrees 44 minutes N, 104 degrees 59 minutes W
Raping people in drains since the summer of '07...
| | Re: Maglites!
<Reply # 51 on 12/6/2006 7:54 PM >
| | | | Twat, I must say that I'm still laughing my ass off! It kinda makes me want a 4D but I think a 2D would be better b/c then I could actually fit it in my backpack. But then again a 2D would be less effective against some of the creepers I meet...
Subduction leads to orogeny. Duh. |
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