TCS wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:40:37 GMT, George E. Cawthon wrote:

Stopped by Costco yesterday and saw a no-battery flashlight.
Before Christmas I saw one at Fred Meyer and was going
to buy it as a gift for camping trips but by the time I
decided to buy it, they were out.


Anyway, it's a yellow thing labeled GEI INC. Has a squeeze
handle and a switch, so I had to buy one. The instruction
say you get about 3 minutes of light for each 30 seconds of
squeezing. Damn it is bright. Probably not much good for
wandering around the woods, but useful if the electricity
goes out, and I can read by it which is more than I can say
for the standard lights in my travel trailer. It must have

....

I guess if you haven't the skills to keep batteries in a flashlight and to
keep a spare set somewhere then it might come in handy.

Oh? Children + flashlights = dead batteries every time. (Unless you lock
up the flashlights.)

My guess would be that the person incapable of managing a battery operated
flashlight would also be incapable of remembering where he stored that
windup flashlight.

I prefer the rechargable flashlights which hang from an outlet. They can
be set to come on by themselves when the power quits, so they can serve
as "emergency light", or not.

Only problem are those damn kids again....They never put 'em back into
the outlets when they're done with 'em. G

Jeff


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