Not to make light of lightweight...

[hso]

A buddy had given a small light used in fishing lures a couple of years ago and I was able to find more in white. The little module is a led and battery combined that will run for 20 hours. They're a little small and therefore difficult to handle so I started looking for ways to improve gripping them. Paracord stripped of the inner strands and a drop of cyanoacrylate glue applied to the gizmo before inserting it into the paracord did the trick. It isn't a Surefire super brite flashlight, but it can burn for 20hrs, weighs nothing, makes enough light to navigate in the dark and cost about $5.

 

[sgt127]

A: Ingenious
B: How do you turn it on and off.
C: Got a link to buy them?

 

[hso]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N6KOY93/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Push the LED in to light and pull to deactivate. See if you can come up with some innovative way to put them to use.

 

[bikerdoc]

I like it!
But probably not a pathway to being rich in addition to smart and handsome?

 

[bannockburn]

My wife's company has promotional pens they give away that have the same type of miniature flashlight in them. I carry one at work and they come in pretty handy when you don't have a regular flashlight.



There's also another version of the pen where the flashlight is in the tip so you can write in the dark as well!

 

[hso]

probably not a pathway to being rich

Considering there's nothing about it patentable or that anyone can't do themselves. You could wrap a sheath or "credit card" in duct tape with one of these taped to it and be covered.

It does allow us to attach a nearly weightless emergency light to every knife we own so we have that need covered should we find ourselves in the dark with no way to see our surroundings.

 

[OrangeCat]

Are the batteries replaceable or are they integral to the led LED and when it's burnt out yoy dispose of the whole thing

 

[JShirley]

Are the batteries replaceable or are they integral to the led LED and when it's burnt out yoy dispose of the whole thing

But, what if you like the knife?

 

[OrangeCat]

But, what if you like the knife?

That's why I want to know before I do this to one of my knives. I can only throw out so many knives before it gets to be too much.

 

[hso]

^^^
LED is integral with the battery, but most knives can be removed without damage.

 

[OrangeCat]

How hard is it to pull in and out I think if you drilled an eyelet into a bolt just oversized for the head and ran a nut down till it tensions it together it would make a nice little switch for it but

1) probably unnecessary.

2) probably would require a lot of fitting to keep it from interfering with the led

 

[hso]

It only requires thumb pressure to push the LED in to activate and good nails to pull it out to deactivate. The paracord sheathing is just to make it easier to handle and to help in pulling the LED out to deactivate.

Ten of them delivered are cheap enough to experiment with.

The yellow one that was given to me several years ago rode around loose in a Mountainsmith bag getting used occasionally. When I started looking for them in white to play with it was out of curiosity. Now I have ten of them set up with paracord sleeves to put on knives or give to friends.