Speaking of cheapies and flashlights…. Dealextreme is an online retailer for ALL sorts of gadgets (at some amazing prices) You can spend a whole day looking at all the interesting and weird stuff they sell.
Here's a link to their flashlights and related products. They sell some high lumen stuff for reasonable prices. I've been thinking about ordering one of their high lumen waterproof flashlights. http://www.dealextreme.com/c/flashlights-guns-mount-lasers-999 I assume it's all stuff from asian factories. Some of it is junk. Some of it is great value. The trick is figuring out which is which. The interesting thing is that WORLDWIDE shipping is FREE. You can order something worth $3 and they ship it to you no matter where you are. at no charge… The only issue is the delivery time can be multiple weeks. I can only assume they spread the cost across multiple orders and ship to you when they have enough orders in your area ? Who knows how they can afford it ? I have a few friends who are addicted to buying gadgets from them. Cheers, Roy On 2011-03-12, at 4:27 PM, Ben Okopnik wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 09:43:26AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Beware that silicone grease (diver's grease) destroys some plastics. I >> destroyed several Pelican/Hubble flashlights with silicone grease, that's >> why I use Vaseline now. > > Um... whoops. *NOW* I know what happened to those two Pelicans of > mine. :) Fortunately, Pelican has a no-questions-asked lifetime > warranty, and replaced them for me. Even better, I haven't gotten around > to lubing these up yet. Vaseline it is, then. > >> My general take on flashlights is to have lots of them because they only >> work well about half the time. > > Good quality flashlights are one of the things that I'm very, very picky > about - precisely because they're the kind of thing that you so > desperately *need* at those times when everything is going sideways and > there's no "do-overs". Not a whole lot of items in that category for me, > but I'm always on the lookout for the best quality and price for those > things that are. > > > Ben > -- > OKOPNIK CONSULTING > Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business > Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming > 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com http://twitter.com/okopnik > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
