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IanNVJ35 · 27th Oct 2016, 9:28 pm

Thanks for the input - love to see them all! Just up my street. Looking at the home made lights those are just amazing and I would never have thought of doing that - yet they look so practical.

As another little project I had a REALLY tatty 1920's Ever Ready 3 cell torch which was so rotten that the tube was holed through and the switch was rattling about inside the tube. The spring at the bottom was just a crusty web. Yet with a few new bits and some liquid metal it is now my main work light - now upgraded to a 10 Watt bulb and Eneloop cells - it works really well. Amazing this old tech, so rugged and easy to work on.

27th Oct 2016, 9:28 pm	#23
IanNVJ35 Heptode Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK. Posts: 848	Re: Old torches - anyone here collect them? Thanks for the input - love to see them all! Just up my street. Looking at the home made lights those are just amazing and I would never have thought of doing that - yet they look so practical. As another little project I had a REALLY tatty 1920's Ever Ready 3 cell torch which was so rotten that the tube was holed through and the switch was rattling about inside the tube. The spring at the bottom was just a crusty web. Yet with a few new bits and some liquid metal it is now my main work light - now upgraded to a 10 Watt bulb and Eneloop cells - it works really well. Amazing this old tech, so rugged and easy to work on.