<VV> Trouble lights

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I was right with you Harry until you got to the Santa part.

My daughter's soon to be husband gave me a headlight (among the collection of working on car stuff). It's not for the car, but rather my head. It has two types of LEDs, bright and not so bright. The spread on the light beam is pretty wide. It is held in place with a elastic strap that's about an inch wide. My concern is the stability of that strap. I'm looking forward to trying it on my upcoming drive train swap.

Ned


-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Yarnell (Verizon) <harryyarnell at verizon.net>
To: hallgrenn <hallgrenn at aol.com>; hmlinc <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>; corvairduval <corvairduval at cox.net>; virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 3:57 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> Trouble lights


In my 55 years of tinkering with automobiles, I've used a number of
droplights. The typical incandescent droplight with the steel cage
surrounding the bulb that have been around since the '30's,I've used for
years in my younger days. Filiments would almost always break when the
droplight was laid (dropped) on the concrete floor. Heavy duty bulbs were a
joke.
Now I use a handheld fluorescent (110 volt) plastic shrouded troublelight
(13 watts). Gasoline can't get to the tube, and is fairly shock resistant.
Gives excellent light just where you want it.
I got for Christmas (from my junkyard friends) a 4' LED stick. Must be 100
LED's in this sucker! It's battery powered and gives plenty of floodlight.
With the hooks at either end, you can hang it from the underside of the hood
to flood the engine bay. Or stand it on end to light up a wheel well.