If someone lost a flashlight (no evident brand marking, but marked 'P70' on the tailcap), they should let me know and we can sort out how to get it back to them.

I'm not entirely sure what 'wobbling away from your head' means regarding the battery insert. Do you mean the bottom of the battery holder moves slightly back from where it should be inside the box? What's the diagnostic method - trying to tilt the lid in situ, and seeing what happens?

Chances are that the old and well-used 2700s have developed high internal resistance, and either the charger is testing for that and indicates 'full' as an alternative to showing an error, or the high resistance is fooling it into premature termination. Going high resistance is pretty much a...

Generally speaking, for various tagged NiMH cells, I've always found componentshop are pretty decent (and good value). They have a fair range of various fractional A sizes, but stock levels can be patchy. They have 4/5A in stock, but look to be out of 4/3A and 7/5A *and* 18670, but it could be...

When it comes to double-P-hanger pull-throughs, I typically use a knot with a crab in, and clip the crab into the 'other' hanger when rigging, with it to be sorted out by the last person down. That means even if someone tried to descend the wrong rope, it would still be attached (at least, to...

The point was basically about wear typically caused by a Pantin (especially a Pantin being used on a foot that is somewhat forward) tending to pull a taut rope with ~1/2 bodyweight tension against the front frame, and hence preferentially wearing teeth on the front of the cam, as well as the...

The idea of steel reinforcement to reduce frame wear (especially Pantin-induced frame wear) seems a good one, if it can be done such that any wear failures are graceful and obvious. Entirely abandoning an idea because of what can happen in one implementation of it on well-worn devices seems...

Leaving aside the issues of retirement and inspection for a moment, I wonder, if the design used some kind of filler (like a metal-filled epoxy) between the aluminium body and the steel strip, if that would help make a sharp edge rather less of an immediate risk to rope if it did wear through...

Not sure if that was replying to me, but if so, the dealextreme lighter is very much large-lighter sized (height 10cm) rather than mini-blowtorch. Not perfect, but if you know their faults they're pretty damn good, especially if you have several. They're great expedition kit - in addition to...

Personally, I find cheap soldering guns to be pretty good - they can sometimes need a bit of on/off action with the trigger to avoid the tip heating to ignition point, but I think the last one I bought in Lidl was only about ?10. Not quite as nice as a 'proper' rope knife, but not too far off...

I hadn't realised it was that concentrated, and (after Friday/Saturday), I'd forgotten that Sunday daytime was fairly decent weather in the dales, even if it got pretty nasty further south when I was driving home. I suppose the 75mm a few years ago was spread out more, even if still mainly...

And this was 'only' ~40mm, but I suppose it was landing on pretty saturated ground. I seem to recall when there was the day-long rain that stranded some people beyond the (drained) Ireby sump, there was about 75mm during the day. I wonder what White Scar was like then?

Seems like when I go to derig our rain-sensitive Eurospeleo cave next weekend (if it's dry enough), I may have to take a fair bit of rope with me in case sections have got trashed.

I wouldn't want to speak for all Wacom models and PCs, but I'm using a ~20 year old serial port Intuos 1, and it wasn't hard to get working under Win8.1 (now Win10) despite the lack of driver support from Wacom after finding some useful info on how to do it. I can't change the various...

Going back to the OP, I'm not sure how the method described is going to be meaningfully quicker than just tying an Alpine Butterfly in the first place. Unless the hang position is especially 'sensitive', if measurement is done properly for the incoming rope and loop, and the right amount extra...

  I was thinking of completely stripping out the headsets and fitting a pair of new switches, which works very well with the modules I make, and if either the cable or battery box is bad, gutting the battery box, fitting a 3xAA holder instead, and doing a complete recabling.   Work at either end...

If anyone has any non-functioning Duos (knackered switch, corroded cable, screwed battery connectors, etc), I'm interested in making them an offer. All I'm bothered about is that the casings (battery box+lid+clips, headset+bezel+mounting bracket, ideally both) are in one piece, anything else I...

Imminently, I understand.

Lack of waterproofing isn't really an issue as long as things start off with a little silicone grease on and dry out after they get wet. I rarely run on AA NiMH, but if I did they'd be charged every trip and dry out then (and the adapters would dry out quickly. I normally run on rechargeable...

When I recable an Oldham/Zoom box setup, these days I use regular rubber mains cable (can't quite remember the diameter at the moment). At the headset end, I solder 3.2mm bare ring terminals to the cable and cover the terminal shafts with heatshrink (which might need threading on beforehand if...