One of a kind old school light.

[daddyusmaximus]

I have a thing for gadgets. I also have a thing for having things that nobody else has. There's a cool factor in having a "one of a kind" thing. Odly, one of my favorite old things is far from a "one of a kind". The old school angle neck 2-D cell Army flashlights. I've been retired since '09, but still have 3 of them. So... I decided to have one of them updated. Took it to my gunsmith. A gunsmith is basically a machinist right? Told him my idea, gave him my parts, and set him to work. Well, today, I picked it up. One old school angle neck Army flashlight with the guts of a Surefire E-2D LED Defender. Now after all these years (decades really) I have one that is bright as hell. And yes, it works off the original switch.







I'm loving it, and the weight is almost exactly like that of a standard 2-D cell light.

 

[1988-4551]

This is cool. was waiting to see if the old school light was a carbide miners lamp....

 

[Bugzilla]

Very cool. I used to have one of those. May still be in a box somewhere.

 

[HCRMPD1]

That is too cool. I wish I had kept my flashlight........

 

[actaeon277]

I'm sure it works better now.
Seems I've spent a big portion of my life smacking flashlights to get them to work.

 

[TheGrumpyGuy]

I seem to recall that being part of your standard Boy Scouts camping gear back in the late 60's early 70's

 

[actaeon277]

Will it still fit the colored lenses on it?
And would it melt them?

 

[55fairlane]

Interesting project, however, as a machinist, more importantly a tool & die maker, I would like to point out a gunsmith is a gunsmith (and I know some fine ones) are not machinist.

 

[Colt556]

Interesting project. I have a couple of those lights around here someplace, I’d like to try that conversion.

 

[TJ Kackowski]

I thought that this would end up being a fore end grip/light combo for your AR.

 

[daddyusmaximus]

Will it still fit the colored lenses on it?
And would it melt them?

Yes they do fit, and not sure... haven't left them on very long yet. Hasn't melted the clear one...

 

[Butch627]

I had a couple of those flashlights when I was a kid as did my friends but the batteries always leaked and they ended up in the garbage. Are those flashlights still coming to Market?

 

[BigMoose]

Those are cool. I have two or three.

But the real old school lights are the old D cell maglites, you know the ones that double as a baton weapon for cops and nightwatchmen.

They sell a ready made retrofit kit for them