Indiana Jones DOD flashlight
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MCINTOSH275
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Ever Ready Space Beam Torch...
Lightning
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Dagobah Don
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SheerHeartAttac
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Nice find! I may be tempted to get one, too. Thanks to all in this thread who figured it out!
And the only hate I see for DOD is with YouTubers. Indy fans wholly seem to love the film a lot, audience scores are great, and I saw it a few times with friends to packed houses and the audience applauded at the end and had a great time. Even discourse on Twitter and Facebook is largely favorable, shockingly.
Shame it's underperforming at the BO, though. But what isn't, sadly.
Maybe the lack of BO will make hunting down stuff easier!
Mine arrived. So glad I pulled the trigger early and snagged one. They seem to be rare and now going for almost 3 times what I paid for mine. They also all seem to be in the UK so far from every auction I’ve seen. Cool thing is there’s a compartment under the handle for storage of extra lightbulbs. Mine still have a couple inside.
And yes, I plan to strip the paint and try chrome paint to see how close I can get it to match.
And yes, I plan to strip the paint and try chrome paint to see how close I can get it to match.
If you look closely at the flashlight on screen, you can see its not chromed. You can see the round light holder is chromed or stainless and the rest is slightly less brilliant of a finish.
Lightning
Master Member
So what type of battery goes in this thing?? I'm not only going to repaint it- I'm going to restore it to all its glory and in working order.
I think it takes a standard 6 volt lantern battery
GrenadeKing
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The one on screen looks like they stripped it, polished the steel stampings and clear coated it for rust prevention.
I'm working on mine. Paint is very thick. Might take a little while but I will report my findings soon
I think you are spot on. I used paint stripper however this paint is very thick. I used 3 coats to get to the point shown. I used a sanding sponge to get the results. I soaked the lens cover in ospho to remove the surface rust and wiped. Plan is to hand sand and polish with buffer on grinding wheel . Then seal with a clear coat.
Stripped free of the red paint. Used a combination of paint stripper, sanding sponge, palm sander with multiple grits and the wire wheel on my Dremel. This paint was on there boy!! Next step is cleaning and polishing. Hopefully I can remove the dark spots.  After that will be the clear coat to seal it.
