Our friends Gerry and Pam gave us this really great flashlight. It is rated at 10 million candlepower. I guess that means that if you gave every man, woman and child in Canada one candle and lit them all at the same time, they would be equally bright as three of these lights. Whoa, whoa, I can hear the ethnic remarks now.
The flashlight has proven to be really great and has many uses.
We have discovered that we can weld thermoplastics at 50 feet. From 20 feet, we can engrave our names in wood.
While on the way South, Beverley was using it on low power to find something in our car. She accidentally hit high power while aiming it at a pudding salesman parked next to us. She melted the Sherrif decal right off the door. Pretty fancy car for selling puddings - roof lights and all.
We are looking forward to using it to instantly boil water in the absence of a microwave on our boat.
At night, we seem to be able to use it to fool all the birds in about a 5 mile radius into thinking it is dawn. That really sets the roosters crowing.
It is also great for night time navigation in our dingy. As soon as it looks like someone is heading for us, we shine it at the bridge. They are instantly and totally blinded. As a result, they have little option but to stop RIGHT NOW!!!. Because they are totally blinded, they cannot find us to run us down until we have had a chance to meld into the other anchored boats.
What a light!
Now if I could only mount it on the roof of the Jeep to deal with drivers who refuse to use their dimmer....
The flashlight has proven to be really great and has many uses.
We have discovered that we can weld thermoplastics at 50 feet. From 20 feet, we can engrave our names in wood.
While on the way South, Beverley was using it on low power to find something in our car. She accidentally hit high power while aiming it at a pudding salesman parked next to us. She melted the Sherrif decal right off the door. Pretty fancy car for selling puddings - roof lights and all.
We are looking forward to using it to instantly boil water in the absence of a microwave on our boat.
At night, we seem to be able to use it to fool all the birds in about a 5 mile radius into thinking it is dawn. That really sets the roosters crowing.
It is also great for night time navigation in our dingy. As soon as it looks like someone is heading for us, we shine it at the bridge. They are instantly and totally blinded. As a result, they have little option but to stop RIGHT NOW!!!. Because they are totally blinded, they cannot find us to run us down until we have had a chance to meld into the other anchored boats.
What a light!
Now if I could only mount it on the roof of the Jeep to deal with drivers who refuse to use their dimmer....
