Rothco 489: Army Style C-Cell Flashlights

I bought this for a cosplay so I can’t comment on how well it shines. However, it’s durable and looks good!

This is an inexpensive (cheap) angle head flashlight with a design similar to the NATO angle head flashlight. The body is made of plastic and it uses 2 C batteries and not the metal body and 2 D batteries of the genuine military flashlight. It uses a regular incandescent flashlight bulb so it’s not very bright compared to modern LED’s. It has all the same design features of the military flashlight. 3 position switch - on, flash button, and on. The flash button works as it should. Sits flat on its base and has a hanging hook that recesses in the base. It has the tail cap with extra lenses, red, green, blue, and yellow in addition to the clear that came installed. It has the steel clip on the back that allows you to clip it to your belt or other gear and still shine forward. The o rings for the lens are very cheaply made, the o ring for the base cap is okay. The clear lens had some sort of fogging or fine scratches on it, but the other lenses were okay. I purchased this for several reasons. I have a lot of C batteries lying around and nothing to use them in. This was half to a third the price of any other C battery flashlight I could find on Amazon. I’ve never owned an angle head flashlight and I wanted to try it out. I don’t have any red light flashlights so I immediately installed the red lens. It met my needs and I didn’t have an expectation that it would be the same brightness as a modern LED or that it would have the build quality of a military flashlight. I knew what to expect when I bought it, but I took 1 star away for the fogged/scratched clear lens.

Its a flashlight.....pretty straightforward. Comes with different colored filters if you want to change the color of the light. For the price you can't beat it.

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

cheaply made but it does light up.

You know this is a cheap item already. It is. I was ready for that. Positive is it does work as advertised. Switch is honestly pretty decent (it’s 3 setting, btw). Four additional filtered lenses of questionable value are included, in the base. Negatives are the o-rings are warped and barely function as o-rings, and that the black bulb holder literally doesn’t thread correctly into the cone base, but does thread in just enough to keep the bulb in place, which is good enough for it to work. Do not get this light if your life will depend on it. Fine for a costume or as a backup that may or may not ever be needed. Fine as a 2nd (or 3rd) camping light, or to give to your kids so they can have one of their own, that you won’t mind if they lose.

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.

This is a mini version of the actual military combat flashlight. I thought I was getting the real size flashlight. I didn't check out the measurements.My mistake