| Author | Message | ||
     Kyrocket |
As some of you remember someone posted a Kipkay flashlight hack on here using a $4 Eveready flashlight, three lithium batteries and a krypton bulb. Weeeelllll, while I was at Lowe's tonight I glanced at the flashlights and thought, Oh yeah, I need to hack one of those. Well, the video said to use a KPR112 bulb, they didn't have KPR112 so I got a KPR113. Close enough I thought. I bought a Task Force flashlight, same price but looked cooler. Relieving the innards was very easy. There's a piece in there that holds the switch in and it needs to come out, then the whole switch mechanism slides out allowing you to wallow a 5/8 drill bit in it. Then the three lithium 123 batteries will fit. This is where Kipkay goes astray, unless he is finding them cheaper, two batteries are just over $11 and you have to buy four so I'm in to $22 in batteries. Still not bad if it does what it should. Anyway, about those bulbs, they lasted just long enough to push the button. I'm glad I only paid $1.57 for two of them. I'm taking pics along the way, I'm back off to Lowe's to get some more bulbs and see what happens, I'm in this deep now can't go back. Mwahahahahahahaha | ||
| Kyrocket |
CRAP, bought the biggest ones lowe's carries, 4 cell C or D and blew 'em both out of the chute. Now I'm out .48. Guess I'll have to go to Radio Shack tomorrow. Gonna take the flashlight with me and just try them in the store. Just bored tonight, all the kids are gone, wife's out with friends and I'm hacking flashlights. LOL. I must be getting old. | ||
| R100rs |
rocket,buy surefire 123 batteries direct.$1.75,made in usa.http://www.surefire.com/Batteries | ||
| Just_ziptab |
I bought (buy it now)123 batteries on eBay for $13.00.........shipping and all. Shelf life to 2019! | ||
| Kyrocket |
Thanks R100, that's now saved in my favorites. | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
whats this all about? What sort of flashlight hack? | ||
| Thumper74 |
Watch out with the non-Surefire batteries! They're a ton of talk on gun and police forums about the Chinese batteries leaking/exploding.... More info about this hack please! | ||
| Ourdee |
I did the hack as the vid. showed. I got the right bulb at Radio Shack. It has been riding under the seat of my uly for a year now and still works. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
take a look at what they are doing with the old lenses from DVDs, CD players..... | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Watch out with the non-Surefire batteries! I stick with Eveready and Duracell(the ones I got on eBay) There were some incredibly cheaper brands there,but I stayed away........  | ||
| Just_ziptab |
The hack thread: http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/406 2/617844.html | ||
| 86129squids |
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| Kyrocket |
Ourdee, do you remember if it WAS in fact the KPR112 or something different? I too am using Eveready batteries, life's too short to use cheap batteries. Watch some of those Kipkay videos, they're pretty sweet. I'd love to do that with the Spongebob audio recorder. That's funny. Thanks Zip for finding that. I meant to repost that video but didn't get around to it. | ||
| Kyrocket |
O.K. so get the right bulb the first time and save yourself some trouble. Radio Shack (girl working the counter didn't know much and tried to turn me away) has them. They are in fact the KPR112 krypton made for "C" and "D" 5 cell flashlights. I tried to keep it as controlled as possible and here are two reference pics... (I've resized them both to 320 X 200 so they would fit here) first the dim...  and the bright for comparison...  The first pic was the flashlight as bought, 2 AA and bulb. The second is 3 lithium 123 batteries and the KPR112 bulb. I don't have an expensive one to compare it to but I tried it up against one that I thought was fairly bright, a 3 AAA led flashlight and it blew it out of the water. IF I knew what I was doing I could have done it a lot cheaper. The Task Force flashlight I bought was < $5, the bulb was $1.99 plus the batteries. I don't think it can be done for <$10 but it won't be much over that and I'm surely going to lose this one when the wife sees it. ALSO, I bought this flashlight because I could see it had the correct bulb that I knew I had to change. The Eveready contractor light like the one in the video had a different kind of bulb at Lowe's so make sure you check that out if you decide to do this. I've got a pic of the light but it's not wanting to come through to my e-mail. I'll post it up when it does. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
I've got one of those wanker lights, works great. What? Oh sorry, it's a rechargeable flashlight that you shake back & forth to recharge. There hope that clears it up for you. |
