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S R
 
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Default Mag LED Flashlights

The flashlights I purchased had poor quality all around. The black anodizing
was acceptable, but the machining on the bodies was horrible. The design of
the flashlight required you to throw the whole thing away if the LEDs burned
out (no replaceable parts unless you break the adhesive bond). I am not
even sure there was a warranty because the price was so low, I did not even
bother to look. One thing I did with the smaller LED flashlight was convert
it into a laser line for my sliding compound miter saw. I threw out the
innards after disassembling it (breaking the bond), then installed the
innards from a laser line pointer purchased from wal mart. Worked out
pretty well. The flashlight lens protects the laser pretty good.

As a backup flashlight, I guess they are fine (I purchased two flashlights
about 1/2 to 1 year ago, maybe they are better now). My primary flashlights
are Mag lights, and I would not want to be in a situation relying on the
inexpensive LED lights.


Stephen R.


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:31:46 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, "S R"
no email @ no spam.com quickly quoth:

This is great news. I purchased two LED flashlights from harbor fright.
There is no way I will ever purchase another from them.


Are those the 0.00005 watt models which are easily outshown
by a single firefly?


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