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Lowe's parking lot light trick saved my midnight workbench
Was out in the Habitat ReStore parking lot at 11pm last week loading a table saw and realized my phone flashlight was useless. A guy walking by pointed his headlamp at the saw and said 'angle it down, not at your face.' Tried it right there and the difference was wild, now I keep a $15 headlamp clipped to my shop apron all night. It's not about brightness, it's about beam direction and hands-free aiming. My basement workbench got ten times more usable for late projects. Anyone else swap their work lights after a random parking lot chat?
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the_miles1mo ago
My dad had a 500 watt halogen on a tripod that he aimed right at the work, and I copied that setup for years. Then last spring I was rewiring a lamp in my garage and my brother in law handed me his cheap headlamp and told me to point it down at the wire instead of out at the wall. It lit up the whole splice and left both my hands free, which the tripod never did. Now the halogen just sits in the corner, and I grab the headlamp for anything under a minute. Kind of funny how a ten dollar thing beat a light I swore by for a decade.
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