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echo: barktopus
to: Phil Payne
from: Geo.
date: 2007-03-03 17:42:42
subject: Re: Al Gore

From: "Geo." 

page 442, top of the page.

I've got a dozen of those around the house, very bright single LED
flashlights for looking in small places, both ends are rare earth magnets
(very strong) so you can pick a ball bearing out of the cylinder bore
.

They are also really good when working on the innards of a computer.. just
don't stick it to the hard drive :)

Geo.

"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news:45e7c552$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I think LED lights are going to be the way to go, got a few LED
> flashlights
>> and I can't believe how long the batteries last in these things.
>
> They're now completely standard in the auto business.  They make great
> working lights - Snap-off, Sealey, Sykes-Pickavant all sell rechargeable
> 70-LED inspection lights.  Durability is phenomenal and safety is
> terrific -
> dropping an incandescent bulb into spilt fuel is a nightmare.  I have a
> single-LED pencil and a ten-LED jobbie run by three D-cells.  The battery
> life of the latter is given as 10,000 hours.  I also have a 12-LED head
> torch that's configurable to use 4, 8 or all 12 depending on your needs.
>
> I'm now looking for a fibre optics jobbie for inspecting cylinder bores
> through spark plug holes.
>
>

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