> However, the real "Shilleagh" is the Ray-O-Vac Sportsman that was owned by
> my late father-in-law. This thing has 5 D-cells and weighs 2 1/4 pounds. I
> throws a hot beam as far as I can see it. (It is also a corrosion magnet.
> :-( ).
My dad has one of those. Yes, it's a beast and it is certainly a
corrosion magnet. But it was very good in its day. While he's got a
myriad of pen lights and so forth, that beast has resided under his
bed for at least 50 years.
One brother had taken a couple of them and made a really big version
of it. Probably nine or 10 cells. Man, was it huge. He became a police
officer and converted over to MAGLites, but always tinkered with
taking things to extremes. For example, he converted one of the
nightstick ones from D-Cell to a fat array of AA-cells. Went to higher
voltage halagon bulbs. Not sure what he has now, but I'm sure it's out
there. He even converted a 500,000 candlepower spotlight into a
flashlight once.
It's a Norton thing to this this kind of crazy stuff. I went nuts with
kites, he went nuts with flashlights.
AG
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