Best inspection light

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What is the best inspection light, lots of new lights some are so bright you almost have to use sunglasses.
 
brien23 said:
What is the best inspection light
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For me it depends on task. But my go-to portable light is a Mini MagLite with a xenon bulb. Some specific helicopter inspections require use of a non-LED light source due to washout potential of the inspection area. But I also keep a double C cell MagLite, a couple Coast HL7 headlights, a Coast HP14 flashlight (both Coasts eat batteries), and a couple Milwaukee pocket flood lights handy should the need arise.
 
I like the small cheap LED lights that gas stations and Lowes sell right at the registers. They are small and light enough to hold in your mouth to free your hands up. They are also not so bright as to reflect back blinding you.
 
gkainz said:
Is that $5 Lowes light the same one they give away at Harbor Fright?
https://www.harborfreight.com/3-12-in-mini-flashlight-63884.html
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haha close, think it's a little brighter and has a little more of a natural light color. I have a bunch of those free HF ones though and they are perfect for inspection as well. I keep several at the airport, the house, in the airplane, the car. Most times you need a flashlight you don't need a super bright one.
 
Flashlight - storage device for dead batteries...

I find the more I have laying around, the more I have with dead batteries. Costco had a batch of "smart" Duracell 250 led lights a while back that had a battery level monitoring circuit that's sole purpose was apparently to drain the battery. Advertised long battery life, but I guess that was only if you put fresh ones in and then turned the light on?
 
teejayevans said:
Wearing one of these just screams “geek”.
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OK. So I'm a geek. In high school the cool guys went on to become ordinary wage-earners. The geeks went on to make piles of money. I wish I had been a geek back then instead of now.
 
A caution on flashlights that now have a magnetic base on them. Don't get them near any combination of steel and the compass, or you'll need to re-swing the compass. In bad cases degaussing may be necessary.
 
Grum.Man said:
I like the small cheap LED lights that gas stations and Lowes sell right at the registers. They are small and light enough to hold in your mouth to free your hands up. They are also not so bright as to reflect back blinding you.
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+1. And they're so cheap you don't mind if they break or you lose it.
 
teejayevans said:
Wearing one of these just screams “geek”.
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Who's to know?

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Timbeck2 said:
Been there, done that (on F-16s) and never have a desire to do it again, especially in August after an engine run...in Phoenix.
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Got to jump the tailpipe on a thru-flight just as soon as the turbine quits turning, then jump the tube....If you can't get down the tube within 5 minutes of it stopping, you're hosed. I'm lucky in a way...the only way I could jump even the big mouth inlets was being shoved in there like a torpedo....:confused:
 
Timbeck2 said:
Been there, done that (on F-16s) and never have a desire to do it again, especially in August after an engine run...in Phoenix.
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Meh, A-4s, NAS Cubi Pt., the Phillipines, 90 degrees/90 percent humidity. It is NOT a dry heat!
 
Costco used to sell the red Snap-on (clone) three to a pack mini flashlights. They are great and I wish I had bought more at the time before they stopped selling them. :(
 
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