![]() But I took the bulb out of the faulty flashlight, and put it into a flashlight that I know works. Well, they do but not as a unit with the bulb. I’d forgotten that the heads don’t just ‘swap’. Since my program is chewing on a very large file, I thought I’d check some things. This shouldn’t be a problem with a real maglite though. The cheap crap are built to very loose tolerances and usually stop working because the contacts get out of alignment and don’t touch well enough for current to flow. Two questions: Is there ‘something’ with flashlights that cause them to simply stop working for no apparent reason? And, more immediately, why won’t my Maglite work? Remember those plastic five-cell flashlights Radio Shack used to give away every year? (There was a coupon on their Winter flyer.) Those would work for a while, and then stop working for no apparent reason. There is no corrosion, and the new batteries are, well… new. I think I tried another bulb, and still no joy. I tried swapping bulbs (there’s a spare in the butt cap), and that didn’t work. She forgot to turn the flashlight off, and had it sitting lamp-down on a table so she didn’t see that it was on. The SO was playing with her solar lanterns one night, using one of my 3 D-cell Maglites to charge them. ![]()
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