What the best flashlight?

[SantaAna12]

I own 2 stream lights. A little 1aaa microstream and a strion
The green makes it easy to find when dropped in an engine bay

Like the knurling there. Niiiice!

 

[DUSTIN@STI]

I'm a surefire fan also. You get what you pay for.

 

[winlinmac]

I thought The Best Flashlight is a Candlestick No?

On a more serious note, Home Depot has a few flashlights on sale for the Holiday Season, pretty decent, a little over $10, seems to be getting positive reviews over it luminosity.

 

[VoodooCLD]

UltraFire 7w 300lm Mini Cree Led Flashlight Torch Adjustable Focus Zoom Light Lamp - $3 & free shipping

Thats the same flashlight i posted about, except at a cheaper price. Awesome flashlight. I'm gonna buy a bunch to give away for christmas.

 

[padroo]

I retired from one of the steel mills here in NW Indiana and worked as a millwright, the company provided us with the Streamlight Septor to wear on our hard hats. They constantly upgrade their light because every time I got a new one it was upgraded from the old one and just keep getting better.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00064YL7S/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[rodsnratfinks]

The Steamlight Stinger DS LED is what I have. I've dropped it off of lifts, ladders, into coolant, etc. Tough as nails. Some of my co-workers have had their Stinger for more than twenty years with the original batteries using it every day as an auto tech. Their Streamlights which used to be black, are mostly silver now from all the times they've been dropped.

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[bushmechanic]

I'm a surefire fan also. You get what you pay for.

I'd rather get what you paid for.

 

[lilcraigford]

For all of you that like your Mag-light's for their body's durability but don't like the bulb breakage when dropped look in to a Malkoff insert. Sorry I can't find the link at the moment. Gene is an awesome guy, his shop is based in Alabama and the product that he sells is amazing.

I tried one of his drop in inserts for my 2D cell ML and was very impressed with the amount of light that it can produce and how far it will throw a beam. I have up graded all of my ML's to his insert's and also upgraded my Surefire light with equal satisfaction..

There is a company out there called Alzetta? that uses one of the Malkoff insert's in their light and the salesman uses it to drive nails into a 2x4 with it hundreds of times and it has not failed in a demo yet.

This peaked my interest so I looked it up: Malkoff Devices

Sounds like a solid solution and a quality product, but a little on the pricey side (I think... I'm not familiar with the price point on these sort of things); the Maglite drop-ins are on sale for $39.99 (down from $44.00).

 

[DUSTIN@STI]

I'd rather get what you paid for.

Can't take it with you.

 

[wiens80]

I like my TerraLUX Lightstar 300. Really bright, but possibly a bit of a battery ****.

 

[cashishift]

I have a Fenix PD35 2014 edition 960 lumens with 5 modes and it is amazing, dropped it a few times and still kicking.

Same.

Love it.

 

[My Old Tools]

$12 PrincetonTec dive light, 4 AAA batteries. Good to 500 feet in salt water. I broke one, ran over it.
http://www.leisurepro.com/p-ptct4/princeton-tec-tec-40-flashlight
http://www.divers-supply.com/princeton-tec-tec-40-overmold-light-black.html

 

[Welderguy24]

Streamlight Strion Led. Have 2, one is 5 years old and the other is 4. Always one on me and one in charger ready to go. I've dropped them, ran them over, sank them underwater. The older one is pretty much silver now, I've worn off all the anodizing. I've had one battery replaced and one tail switch replaced under lifetime warranty through my Matco dealer.

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[evanbaker08]

I was gonna say streamlight but you say you have problems with them. How did you break them?

 

[Csmnlm]

I was gonna say streamlight but you say you have problems with them. How did you break them?

The streamlights I had the problem with was the small pen sized flashlight. I've had the thread on battery cap end sieze. ended up breaking the flashlight body. The switches on these lights are just bad. They loose good contact pretty quickly. I just bought a new streamlight stinger.

 

[snakeeyes]

I use a streamlight strion at work and its great. The only problem I have had is sometimes the button on the bottom seems to not work once in while and you cannot either shut off or turn on the flashlight; unscrew the bottom a little and then tighten again and back in business.

Bought a 5 bank charger for stingers and it has been great for our maintenance crews as we don't have to deal with changing batteries or people stealing flashlights since they can only charge them at work.

 

[Mastermind]

Streamlight has a lifetime warranty right? I know my buddy has sent his in before, they replaced everything but the batteries and tailcap. Whole body switch etc. I think they just put his tailcap on a new light.
I love my stylus pro and stinger HL. Still have a couple of old 2-3 cell maglights in the cars. The stylus never leaves me and the stinger is in my pocket most of the time.