Rolling Back The Years...

[neil cooney 10,415]

LOL, and ye all lived to tell the tale.

Good days indeed.

 

 

 

Sorry, meant to say nights.

[DogFox123 1,379]

Can remember the days I used to carry a lorry battery on my back, that and 20 rabbits took some doing I tell ya..

[Bosun11 537]

I'd agree with JD, Blue eye's were the best lamps ever to hit the market, never mind the numbers!

The jump from using car spotties to these was monumental.

[TOMO 24,880]

Jd said them blue eyes were over rated bosun,,,,never used one myself,,,coukdnt afford such a luxury...

 

Must have been alot of ,,,rally prepiared escort Mexico owners in the 80's,,,that went out to there beloved motors in a morning to find there spotlights missing.........

[swg dave 333]

I remember the square Brinkman quartz halogen with the motorbike bat in a box

with seat belt strap, an old hand made lamp consisting of a car headlight attached

to a doorbell for on off. i had the nite tracker with a trigger pull, they were a good lamp.

then the blue eye, the Q beam range, all supplied by my old friend Dougie Cooper from

CTF Field sport Supplies in Sutton Surrey, cor they were the days.

Edited November 19, 2015 by swg dave

[peterhunter86 8,627]

It must of been luxury having car spotlight and lorry batteries all we had was a box of matches and a magnifying glass

[Tiercel 6,986]

The first lamp I had was off a Morris Oxford the spot had a chrome nipple in the middle of the glass and the bulb was elongated and fitted right up to the centre of the chrome nipple. That lasted years until lamping under the influence and fell and smashed the glass to smithereens. I then used those square Brittax lamps for a few years. Then bought my first blue eye, I don't know if anyone remembers them they looked like a small frying pan and were only 50,000 CP. One thing they were good at was cutting through mist, no bounce back at all. When the sealed beam went on that it was almost cheaper to buy the new, as it was then, 200,000 CP one. I used that lamp for close on 15 years lamping with the dogs and on the boat, no bounce back off the water and could pick up your dhan flags with reflective tape on a mile away. In that time I replaced the sealed beam, from dropping the lamp, once. The lamp cost I think it was around £40 the bloody sealed beam was £30 plus postage. But been a good servant.

 

 

 

TC

[FUJI 16,312]

Remember those lamps with the chrome nipple on TC haha,I think we all had one of those at some stage? Yeah the blue eye had no equal for cutting through the mist/fog when it descended on you..ahhh the memories ?

[stormyboy 1,352]

You can modify any lamp blue eye style. Use the stick on blue tint strip folks used to put across the top of the windscreen,usually with names stuck on! A circle on the centre of the lens cuts down glare big style. I've done it to all my lamps plus a cowl on the outside-all you can see from a distance is a thin bluish beam even in mist/rain.

[darbo 4,774]

First what i would have called a proper one apart from botched up ones was from kings bought out of the old shooting news.

[Tiercel 6,986]

Remember those lamps with the chrome nipple on TC haha,I think we all had one of those at some stage? Yeah the blue eye had no equal for cutting through the mist/fog when it descended on you..ahhh the memories

These were the ones look at the price of them now..

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lucas-SLR576-Chrome-Spot-Light-Spot-Lamp-for-MG-Mini-Morris-etc-/191683794654

 

TC

[greenshank1 406]

Classic

 

My brother and I must have been about 12 and 13 and reading the shooting news decided we had to make our own lamping kit.

 

The lamp was an old rectangular inspection light with a cone made from cardboard and covered in black masking tape , this was to narrow the beam !! As we read this was vital.

We then read about red filters so set to work with the red felt tip pens.

But the best was it was powered by old leaky motorbike battery carried in army haversack. Aye , it splashed everywhere , eventually rotted the haversack , countless shirt tails and tops of jeans.

But we had great fun.

[Fox finder 19]

Classic

My brother and I must have been about 12 and 13 and reading the shooting news decided we had to make our own lamping kit.

The lamp was an old rectangular inspection light with a cone made from cardboard and covered in black masking tape , this was to narrow the beam !! As we read this was vital.

We then read about red filters so set to work with the red felt tip pens.

But the best was it was powered by old leaky motorbike battery carried in army haversack. Aye , it splashed everywhere , eventually rotted the haversack , countless shirt tails and tops of jeans.

But we had great fun.[/quot

Reading this topic takes me back I remember my first lamps I had was a lr9and a lr10 with a doorbell quite shoddy wiring and a motorbike battery .with a plastic oil tub for the battery with old newspaper in to secure the battery enough then after a good few times out would pull the paper out and it would fall to pieces .seen a friend of mine who built a wooden casing round the battery but the acid used to soak into the wood and would make a mess of your clothes still have an lr10 today good topic

[Accip74 7,112]

I'd agree with JD, Blue eye's were the best lamps ever to hit the market, never mind the numbers!

The jump from using car spotties to these was monumental.

That was my first proper lamp.

 

My dad didn't do lamping, he was a daytime man. So I started going with my mates who had the 'made-up' lamping gear......headlights, copper pipe for handles...etc etc.....

I thought fcuk that! & saved up my cash from a summer farm job & got the full deben blue eye lamping kit...........yep I had all the gear, I just needed a dog to match! Which my mates didn't fail to remind me of....haha....

Edited November 19, 2015 by Accip74

[low plains drifter 9,467]

Classic

My brother and I must have been about 12 and 13 and reading the shooting news decided we had to make our own lamping kit.

The lamp was an old rectangular inspection light with a cone made from cardboard and covered in black masking tape , this was to narrow the beam !! As we read this was vital.

We then read about red filters so set to work with the red felt tip pens.

But the best was it was powered by old leaky motorbike battery carried in army haversack. Aye , it splashed everywhere , eventually rotted the haversack , countless shirt tails and tops of jeans.

But we had great fun.

One time when we had to go to court a copper walked past us with the lamping gear that we'd had confiscated, in clear plastic bags, mine was still intact, but the other lads carrying sack looked like a half completed jigsaw puzzle lol