FYI

For those who, like me, think life is too short to clean rollers &
brushes - ASDA have paint roller, frame & tray for £1:97 and a set of 5
one use brushes for £2:25, both of which are surprisingly good.

Any one else have a childlike fascination with torches? They have a 95
LED torch for £12 - really bright with a long distance beam, and a 72
LED worklight for £6:50.

Bought the 95 LED one. Didn't really need one, but hey!

If reprimanded by SWMBO for buying yet another torch, I shall reply "its
so I can see into your shoe cupboard".


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At least your wife is well heeled then.

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"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
...
FYI

For those who, like me, think life is too short to clean rollers &
brushes - ASDA have paint roller, frame & tray for £1:97 and a set of 5
one use brushes for £2:25, both of which are surprisingly good.

Any one else have a childlike fascination with torches? They have a 95
LED torch for £12 - really bright with a long distance beam, and a 72 LED
worklight for £6:50.

Bought the 95 LED one. Didn't really need one, but hey!

If reprimanded by SWMBO for buying yet another torch, I shall reply "its
so I can see into your shoe cupboard".


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On Mar 2, 8:49*am, The Medway Handyman
wrote:
FYI

For those who, like me, think life is too short to clean rollers &
brushes - ASDA have paint roller, frame & tray for £1:97 and a set of 5
one use brushes for £2:25, both of which are surprisingly good.

Any one else have a childlike fascination with torches? *They have a 95
LED torch for £12 - really bright with a long distance beam, and a 72
LED worklight for £6:50.

Bought the 95 LED one. *Didn't really need one, but hey!

I'd like to see the reflector design to focus that many point sources
into a decent beam. You wasted your money.

MBQ

OP...
Asda discount things like brushes heavily in early January, the same
brushes were £1.

Note that there is sometimes a block on bulk online buying - or
refusing stock.
- Dulux Decorating Centre list Thistle Multi Finish 7.5kg for £5 and
flat rate delivery of £5. Every time I have ordered it (even 3 bags)
they are "out of stock", colleague found the same. Someone on Ebay
does 5x 25kg bags for £27.97 delivered which astonishingly good re
weight compared to Wickes flat-rate £32 delivery.
- Asda & Tesco will limit online orders to a quantity of 6 during
certain offers, cleaner sprays, brushes, etc. There is nothing to stop
you putting another order in though.


On Mar 2, 11:06*am, "Man at B&Q" wrote:
I'd like to see the reflector design to focus that many point sources
into a decent beam. You wasted your money.

Does it need to with that many (95) LED?
LED are highly directional compared to an incandescent, and sadly most
likely wired in just the right manner so they do a good impersonation
of future EU energy policy. The really cheap chinese 3W torches give a
usable light, but the switch & general quality control falls short to
be reliable.

The only decent "£9.97 delivered" bargain torch is a 4D maglite.
Unfortunately if you drop the torch so it lands on its end the D cells
crush in and it goes unreliable, as a free standing torch maglite are
hopeless. Take some thick rubber and cut it into hexagonal lumps with
a hole in the middle - THEN it stays put and has some drop resistance
as quite long & slippery (oooer...).

Best seems to be cordless power tool torches - if you have spare
batteries, like a pretty poor reflector. They do stay put, the head is
usually on a ratchet. A bit overpriced compared to a base level drill-
driver though - although they know how much competing torches go for
so price to that obviously.

On Mar 2, 11:06*am, "Man at B&Q" wrote:
On Mar 2, 8:49*am, The Medway Handyman
wrote:

FYI

For those who, like me, think life is too short to clean rollers &
brushes - ASDA have paint roller, frame & tray for £1:97 and a set of 5
one use brushes for £2:25, both of which are surprisingly good.

Any one else have a childlike fascination with torches? *They have a 95
LED torch for £12 - really bright with a long distance beam, and a 72
LED worklight for £6:50.

Bought the 95 LED one. *Didn't really need one, but hey!

I'd like to see the reflector design to focus that many point sources
into a decent beam. You wasted your money.

MBQ

With many-multiple narrow angle LEDs there is no need for a reflector,
I use a 24 LED as a front cycle lamp which does an adequate job of ut
to 25feet at least under the sparse low level sodium streetlamps.

On 02/03/2012 15:33, js.b1 wrote:


Best seems to be cordless power tool torches - if you have spare
batteries, like a pretty poor reflector. They do stay put, the head is
usually on a ratchet. A bit overpriced compared to a base level drill-
driver though - although they know how much competing torches go for
so price to that obviously.

I have one but the bulbs seem to be hard to find. Or maybe my 15.6v
Panasonic is an unusual voltage.

On 02/03/2012 11:06, Man at B&Q wrote:
On Mar 2, 8:49 am, The Medway
wrote:
FYI

For those who, like me, think life is too short to clean rollers&
brushes - ASDA have paint roller, frame& tray for £1:97 and a set of 5
one use brushes for £2:25, both of which are surprisingly good.

Any one else have a childlike fascination with torches? They have a 95
LED torch for £12 - really bright with a long distance beam, and a 72
LED worklight for £6:50.

Bought the 95 LED one. Didn't really need one, but hey!

I'd like to see the reflector design to focus that many point sources
into a decent beam. You wasted your money.

MBQ

Nope. "really bright with a long distance beam" as I said. It will
illuminate the chimney stack of the house over the road.


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On 02/03/2012 15:33, js.b1 wrote:
OP...
Asda discount things like brushes heavily in early January, the same
brushes were £1.

Note that there is sometimes a block on bulk online buying - or
refusing stock.

These were in store.

--
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On 02/03/2012 15:33, js.b1 wrote:

The only decent "£9.97 delivered" bargain torch is a 4D maglite.
Unfortunately if you drop the torch so it lands on its end the D cells
crush in and it goes unreliable, as a free standing torch maglite are
hopeless. Take some thick rubber and cut it into hexagonal lumps with
a hole in the middle - THEN it stays put and has some drop resistance
as quite long& slippery (oooer...).


I have a 2D led Maglite, (same size as 3D incandescent) big disadvantage
is that it uses some kind of smps so rather than going noticeably dim
towards the end of the battery life it only has a very subtle change in
brightness before abruptly dieing...

In article ,
Lee wrote:
I have a 2D led Maglite, (same size as 3D incandescent) big disadvantage
is that it uses some kind of smps so rather than going noticeably dim
towards the end of the battery life it only has a very subtle change in
brightness before abruptly dieing...

I'd call having constant brightness an advantage? Especially since the
batteries should last longer for the same brightness as tungsten. It also
means it would probably work ok with re-chargeables.

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

wrote:

I have a 2D led Maglite, (same size as 3D incandescent) big disadvantage
is that it uses some kind of smps so rather than going noticeably dim
towards the end of the battery life it only has a very subtle change in
brightness before abruptly dieing...

I'd call having constant brightness an advantage? Especially since the
batteries should last longer for the same brightness as tungsten. It also
means it would probably work ok with re-chargeables.

Indeed, I have a 2D LED maglite with LSD NiMhs, never gone to use it and
found it already flat, or dims after a few seconds use like torches of
old ...

thirty-six wrote:
On Mar 2, 11:06 am, "Man at B&Q" wrote:
On Mar 2, 8:49 am, The Medway Handyman
wrote:

FYI

For those who, like me, think life is too short to clean rollers &
brushes - ASDA have paint roller, frame & tray for £1:97 and a
set of 5 one use brushes for £2:25, both of which are
surprisingly good.

Any one else have a childlike fascination with torches? They have
a 95 LED torch for £12 - really bright with a long distance beam,
and a 72 LED worklight for £6:50.

Bought the 95 LED one. Didn't really need one, but hey!

I'd like to see the reflector design to focus that many point
sources into a decent beam. You wasted your money.

MBQ

With many-multiple narrow angle LEDs there is no need for a reflector,
I use a 24 LED as a front cycle lamp which does an adequate job of ut
to 25feet at least under the sparse low level sodium streetlamps.

Well thats good news. The thick **** with no lights on his bike that went
over my bonnet this morning deserved everything he got (and that was the
police officers words).


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On 03/03/2012 11:53, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In ,
wrote:
I have a 2D led Maglite, (same size as 3D incandescent) big disadvantage
is that it uses some kind of smps so rather than going noticeably dim
towards the end of the battery life it only has a very subtle change in
brightness before abruptly dieing...

I'd call having constant brightness an advantage? Especially since the
batteries should last longer for the same brightness as tungsten. It also
means it would probably work ok with re-chargeables.


Constant brightness is nice, of course, but since the battery life is
only comparable to the similar sized incandescent (it's a 3W led module)
it would be nice to have some warning. They could have got it to pulse
or something.

On Mar 2, 4:59*pm, Andrew May wrote:
I have one but the bulbs seem to be hard to find. Or
maybe my 15.6v Panasonic is an unusual voltage.

15.6V is unusual, but it was a neat trick by Panasonic to get a better
tool.

What you could do is fit an LED bulb, they often have wide voltage
range. Whilst LED life is longer, the beam spread can be quite poor
which may or may not matter.

Sanyo Eneloop are wonderful for irregular use in camera's and even
incandescent torches. I do not bother buying alkaline anymore, I just
keep a couple of Lithium AA on reserve just in case the Eneloop need
to be charged (which is rare).

Cyclists should be required to have insurance, including their own
personal injury cover (capped to £750 payout, £5000 rapid payment on
death) making them more responsible for their actions in the wallet.
Likewise car insurance should be split with a separate injury/death
cover. The insurance industry is not generating much float, zero rates
are crippling its investment returns and annuities just "suck".

Now... I wonder how motorcycle couriers get insurance in London...
perhaps all the street camera's have stopped their pavement - road -
through a shop - pavement antics :-) Someone used to drive up the old
dock warehouse stairs to deliver and collect parcels. Only thing they
didn't do was do a run off a roof and through the neighbouring window
as a shortcut. Now I guess they just play the cat-n-fiddle lotto.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote
Lee wrote

I have a 2D led Maglite, (same size as 3D incandescent) big
disadvantage is that it uses some kind of smps so rather than
going noticeably dim towards the end of the battery life it only
has a very subtle change in brightness before abruptly dieing...

I'd call having constant brightness an advantage? Especially since
the batteries should last longer for the same brightness as tungsten.
It also means it would probably work ok with re-chargeables.

And it would be completely trivial to have a battery charge detector
as well and light a separate small red led etc when its getting low.

Or with a headset, flash part of the led array at a very low freq to warn you etc.

Presumably the better designs do that already.

js.b1 wrote:

Sanyo Eneloop are wonderful for irregular use
in camera's and even incandescent torches.

And LED torches too.

I do not bother buying alkaline anymore, I just keep
a couple of Lithium AA on reserve just in case the
Eneloop need to be charged (which is rare).

Makes more sense to have a couple of extra Eneloops etc.

Cyclists should be required to have insurance, including their own
personal injury cover (capped to £750 payout, £5000 rapid payment
on death) making them more responsible for their actions in the wallet.

Not really practical with kids.

Likewise car insurance should be split with a separate injury/death cover.

It is in many countrys, with the injury/death cover being compulsory.

The insurance industry is not generating much float,
zero rates are crippling its investment returns

Hopefully that wont be permanent.

and annuities just "suck".

Now... I wonder how motorcycle couriers get insurance in London...
perhaps all the street camera's have stopped their pavement - road -
through a shop - pavement antics :-) Someone used to drive up the
old dock warehouse stairs to deliver and collect parcels. Only thing
they didn't do was do a run off a roof and through the neighbouring
window as a shortcut. Now I guess they just play the cat-n-fiddle lotto.