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Posted: 18 May 2010 - 09:34 PM                                    
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You're absolutely right about how good the red LED lights can be for providing that little bit of light when you need to work in mostly darkness. I've used one to good effect during nighttime work, underground, and also backstage.

My EDC is a Swiss Memory, which has the LED flashlight -- I have the one with the white light. When I need it softer, I use my fingers as a filter.



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Let me just say that from the moment I walked out of the store with mine it has more than paid for itself. It goes where I go. macsak.gif



 
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Posted: 20 May 2010 - 11:00 PM                                    
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QUOTE (Geekgirl @ 19 May 2010 - 02:45 PM)
QUOTE (AlanP @ 29 January 2009 - 11:59 AM)
I've no idea what the tiny red LED can do me for, I'm guessing to use it as a mini-torch???  open.gif

The red light is great for nightwork....when I was at the National Observatory for a night sky watch program last March, they gave each of red LED light to use for looking at the starmaps. Your eyes, once adjusted to the darkness, will be able to see just fine with the red light at night for reading. If you had a white light, it would be too bright and it would take your eyes another 30 mintues to readjust to the darkness again.

Red lights are good at night...as long as no ghost stories were told about red glowing eyes and monsters around a campfire with small children blink.gif

It's interesting that you mention the red lights at night. I was reading a little while ago that red lights are used in fighter plane cockpits because red light doesn't effect your night vision.

I'm not sure if they're still used because of all the electronics used now, but back in the days when pilots still used maps for navigation, they used red lights so they could read the maps without losing their night vision for looking out the windows to see the ground below and work out where they were.




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At my class reunion in July a couple of the guys had brought bottled beer with the tops that had to be pried off instead of twist tops but they didn't think about bringing bottle openers. I happened to be drinking Guinness which also has pry off tops. I simply reached into my pocket, pulled out my SAK, opened the bottle opener and TA DA! Needless to say I was pretty popular that night for the guys who had come unprepared. sakopen.gif



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Posted: 24 October 2017 - 04:44 PM                                    
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Way to go Beth! I can't believe everyone doesn't have a SAK sak.gif



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My SAK did it again! My wall clock in my living room stopped working and I fixed it using nothing but my trusty SAK. One of the batteries had leaked and corroded the contact keeping the clock from working. I removed the back with the small screwdriver on the can opener blade and cleaned the corrosion from the contact with the file. Replaced the batteries, and TADA I don't have to buy a new clock! It is keeping perfect time. sakopen.gif



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Posted: 28 October 2017 - 06:18 PM                                    
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Nice going!



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