OT(kinda): Die Hard style escape

In my case the other day I was stuck between floors, so no escape through the doors. Incidentally, when the power failed the doors automatically opened about a foot and released, presumably so you could make an easy escape if you happened to be near a level. The manhole escape hatch was however more than 3m above me, and had a key lock on it. Nothing to climb up on except one hand railing on the far side of the lift. So I just sat tight and killed time by surfing the web.

The other lift next to it has an unlocked manhole you can reach with your outstretched arm. So if I was in that one I would have climbed out myself and tried to prise open the outer doors on the upper level. That would be a silly option in the pitch dark of course (no emergency lights), but I had a torch with me.

Dave.

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David L. Jones
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Like you, I carry a minimag, cellphone and a folding box knife in my cell case. People refer to it as my 'Utility Belt'.

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Lord Garth

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I've got an ARC-AAA premium 9 lumens LED torch on my key chain.

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Very nice light, and FYI lights up a dark lift well very nicely. Traded my AAA keyring mini-mag in for it - no comparison.

Always have a SAK on me too in my pocket (usually the MiniChamp, but I have a collection :->). And also happened to have a Leatherman Wave in my work bag at the time as well.

Dave.

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David L. Jones

This "action" is being seriously discouraged and actively stopped in the US by means of door-locking mechanism retrofits designed to make it impossible to open the doors from the inside no matter how strong you are. For "your" safety of course, apparently a few people die every year scaping from elevators instead of waiting, they fall or are crushed while doing so. I agree that people should wait inside until rescued, but in case of fire, removing that option is someting i can't agree with. It should be a matter of educating people. Anyway, here in my country elevators don't have escape hatches...

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Steve Sousa

It's amazing how many lawsuits have gone on in the past 5 years or so regarding the "new breed" of LED flashlights... Mag Industries vs. Arc Flashlight, SureFire vs. Pentagon light, etc. Most of the lawsuits are over pretty silly patents ("lockout tailcap switch") or effectively styling (circumferential engraving of the flashlight's name/model). Quite bizarre...

Personally I have no great love for Mag Industries these days... their lawsuit against Arc was chintzy, an attempt to stop a competitor through questionable legal means when they failed to compete technologically, even though Mag Industries must be 1000x as big as Arc was at the time. Mag has become little more than a marketing company anyway... yeah, the products are good, but Mag doesn't even stand behind the actual designs -- their LED flashlights that are available today prominently proclaim, e.g., "3W LED!" and then, in tiny print somewhere, "* As rated by the LED manufacturer." Sheesh. If I buy a 50W power supply and then use it in, say, an audio amplifier, you can bet that I'll advertise it as a "50W amplifier" without any disclaimer about well, the power supply manufacturer said 50W, but I really didn't do enough tested to know for certain, I guess, so if it isn't really 50W after all, don't blame me?

---Joel

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Joel Koltner

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I had no idea that happened, thanks for the heads up. My respect for Mag has just dropped ever further.

Dave.

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David L. Jones

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It does sound like petty suits. Mag has supported my product by sending me both the part and the tool to install the part at no charge.

I suppose that's possible due to the high initial cost of a Mag product.

That having been said, I was installing equipment at a metal recycling center. As I was scavenging for a suitable mounting bracket, I found a 4 C cell Mag in the junk. It is in better shape than mine but it needs a new rubber cap over the switch and it is missing the lamp assembly. The spring has had corrosion due to leaky cells but is cleanable.

I will call Mag and see if they will ship the rubber part and the lamp holder assembly. Then too, an LED mod kit from non Mag sources might be ready to install in the reflector.

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Lord Garth

What, No C4 or detonators? I guess you could chisel 'Kilroy was Here' on the elevator paneling with your knife whilst waiting ...

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swanny

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This crowd might have the aftermarket LED lamp assembly for your 4C Maglite, they are usually cheap, honest and fast, freight is free of charge...well, incorporated in the base price. Get yourself a 'CREE type Q5' or the even newer and more efficient type 'R2'. In the event your new lamp assembly uses the older type 'P4' it is easy to replace the LED itself, either as a loose part or mounted on its heatsink 'star' assembly. With some work you can have variable/stepped brightness and other functions such as epilepsy-inducing strobe mode, SOS etc.

These new LEDs are amazing....you too will be amazed at the efficiency of these new (~100 Lumens per Watt) devices.

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clanker

If you talk to Maglica on the phone, his lawyer sends you a letter that every concept you discuss is now his property. Swonce upon a time I did design work for the now deceased LEDCORP. That is how I know about that. We had the first luxeons refits on the market, and I have a nice trick for making T1-3/4s fill a standard flashlight reflector and put a beam out to 100 or more feet.

See the Turtlelight reviews on Led Museum, thats my baby. Back when a

2400 mCd Nichia was 1.75 each and you had to fight for good binning.

Steve

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osr

probably scared the thing might start up again at any moment.

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Jasen Betts

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Deal Extreme are excellent but I'd always ring Mag first for spares, I've had all sorts of replacement parts from them for free, even a cap for my mini mag complete with spare bulb when I managed to lose mine.

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Clint Sharp

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Cheers! Rich

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Rich Grise

Or nowadays, vice versa. Should be, anyway.

Cheers, James Arthur

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James Arthur

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Down the crack in front of the door ;-)

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Frithiof Jensen

Excellent point.

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krw

Haha! Or carve any other guests for food.

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Lord Garth

I've never seen that. Most in the US start with a basement, 'B', then the numbered floors, starting with '1'. If there is no basement, the first floor can be either the ground or first floor, and in some buildings, both will be used, depending on when that part was built.

You would be really confused in some large complexes built on rolling land, where the 'Basement' is ground level in some parts. The VA hospital in Gainesville, Fl. is one of these places. The MRI/Ultrasound lab is near the middle of a tunnel that goes under the main road, and to another hospital across the street, so it is about eight feet lower than the basement.

BTW, if there are several basement levels, the number goes up, the deeper you go.

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