Flashlight from galvanized iron pipe

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Flashlight from galvanized iron pipe
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I’m not sure just why this design for a homemade flashlight cased in standard galvanized pipe fittings is so appealing to me, but it is. It’s an entry in Instructables’ ongoing Flashlight Contest from user, ah, “qxnixrfnaozqqx,” who can only be defeated by tricking him into saying his own name backwards.

2 thoughts on “Flashlight from galvanized iron pipe

  1. captain.holiday says:

    Isn’t this an indestructible?

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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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