Rothco 489: Army Style C-Cell Flashlights

Product purchased used for under $6 and it arrived defective. After fixing the contact points it works flawlessly, not the same build as a Fulton but it’s a good clone.Four basic color filters R/B/G/Y (not the same color density or set as the Fulton original) functional spare bulb under battery negative contact spring, 3 switch positions, o-rings are cheap and the plastic threads are concerning. All this said, if I’m buying a cheap flashlight it’ll be this one.The lenses can be replaced with 32mm dia. 1mm thick watch glass, battery conversion for AA or AAA, threads can be covered with teflon tape, o-rings replaced, bulb upgrade to led. The reflector is different higher profile then the mx991 so the height of the bulb body isn’t problematic like it is on other lights (no shadow throw). Modify to your needs imho it’s the same thing just smaller lighter and cheaper manufacturing. I’ll buy again, repair and upgrade.

Solidly built, quality flashlight. Unique design and bright light.

I'm writing this review based on my first impressions upon opening it from the package. This is not a survival/emergency flashlight. If you're looking for something dependable, I suggest you look elsewhere. That being said it's a nice novelty item. Good enough for cosplay or to give to a child.In terms of brightness, it's about the same as my mini mag incandescent flashlight. It's not bad, but you can't focus the beam, and in my case there was dark spot in the middle of the flashlight which is a bit annoying. It's neither a spot or floodlight, but rather somewhere in between. It comes with 5 lens in total. Clear, red, yellow, light green, and blue. It's true that the colored lens block some of the light and make it less dim. The clip is sturdy enough to support it's own weight. The flashlight body is made of a cheap plastic which makes it lightweight, but I'd imagine it'd also break easily. If your flashlight doesn't want to turn on, I suggest you tighten the head and bottom end as it requires both to be extremely tight to work. In my case the threads were all the way down, but it didn't turn on until I torqued down the housing to ensure a tight fit for the circuit to work. I really hope that this bulb doesn't burn out quick or drains my batteries fast because if it does, then this flashlight is complete junk. I'm hoping that at the very least that it lasts as long as my mini maglite.I wouldn't buy this again, but I'm not so upset that I'll bother returning it......at least not yet anyways. You get what you pay for and if you want an incandescent flashlight just get a Maglite.

Didn’t work at first but after a little bit of messing around I got it to work. Other than having to tinker a little this flashlight is good for the price, it’s lightweight so nothing fancy but it works well for why I bought it.

I will start withthe worst and progress the the best. Very sloppy screw together surfaces, what a pain to line up the threads to screw it together. Be aware that cross threading is a problem. The colored lenses are nice but all have minute scratches due to poor packaging. Novelty is great if that is all you want. I will keep this because it stands up and runs on C cells. The content points appear the be brass and robust this is good. I ordered bayonet led bulbs to improve the output which I expected to do. The reflector is poorly matched to the incandescent bulb and offers a 10 inch distorted beam at 10 feet WOW. Price point for this is nt worth it as I cannot find a way to justify it with the exception that it stands upright and points where I want it to THATS IT Cheaplymade NOVELTY . Sorry to all

It’s ok. Plastic and not LED. I must have read too many different descriptions and gotten them tangled in my mind. It works, but I’m not sure how well yet since I haven’t needed to use it yet.

great

It is surprisingly smaller than I expected but it’s very practical in size and illumination is pretty good.