MagLite - S4D116 Maglite Heavy-Duty Incandescent 4-Cell D Flashlight, Blue

Probably the last flashlight I will buy. It’s pricey but have a 3 battery that is nearly 15 and it works great.

Heavy Duty, and casts a great strong beam of light that you can adjust. VERY easy to use and very easy to change batteries

2D purple maglite bought as a gift for my girlfriend she loves it.

Best flashlight to buy

It's a Maglite, I'm sure it will be great. However the description for 3-Cell D Flashlight in Display Box, Blue -S3D115 said it included 3 batteries, and it didn't.

I wrote this once and the Amazon app didn’t sane anything, crashed, and lost it all! I with Amszin’s app was 1/10th as reliable as my Maglite flashlights! Okay, here goes attempt number two...A week or so ago the wind was gusting to 61 mph, so it was only a matter of time until the power was going. To go out (it’s PG&E, what can I say!). So to be a good Boy Scout I am always prepared with too many flashlights. I grabbed one and kept it right by my side. Within.an hour we lost power for about : hours.I have been using Maglites for about 40 years now. I have a lot of them. You pretty much can’t destroy them, although I may have finally outdone them. I had a fire start in the garage, destroyed just about everything including melting the cars in the Geri east! My flashlights might all be here with today if I had followed the ma manufacturing manufacturers advice...You see, I modified a couple of them, such as lithium-ion batteries, terralux head, etc. it seems when those are in a fire and then the fire department sprays water on them the result is, well, not good. A blue 4- cell spun wildly (judging by the hatchet marks spiraling around the barrel), crack the barrel and shot the tailcap out never to be found again. The black 2-cell was never found. The red 2-cell had orange-top Sorbo Lithium-Poly -.5v batteries, which melted and did nothing more. This is probably why Maglite advises you should ONLY use alkaline batteries..I could have bought new flashlights, but this fire was hard on e. 9 months later it’s still difficult to deal with. I decided to spend twice as much and “rebuild” one “Survivor” flashlight out the these three (I had changed the tailcap on the missing black one). I took the blue head, which still has my Gorilla Vlass in it unbroken (now permanently stuck in the bezel,with melted plastic from the reflector), bought a new switch, had spare parts, for the reflector and build, used the red body (getting that melted switch out took me a LONG time since I have no tools anymore) and the black tailcap to build one working flashlight, which I use all the time. It reminds me that I survived, and so did 1//3 of each Maglite. After 40 years I finally broke 3 of them! All the others have been stolen or the ex took them...Idiots can keep stealing the lm, and I will just buy new ones. I won’t waste much money on any other flashlight, it’s just a waste of money. I hope Maglite sticks around a few more years so others can see what a quality American-made product is really worth.

I've owned MagLites all my life and have experimented with smaller LED torches, however just dont find that they feel as secure as the trusty olé MagLite!The Maglites are functional as they either take AAA, AA, C or D size batteries and luckily these batteries are readily available! These batteries especially the larger batteries add quiet a lot of weight to the torch alone and do make the torch much much heavier than anything else I own. However this weight is a quality that non other can reproduce! The aluminium that Mag entrust is of aircraft quality and I have had not one issue with corrosion or failure of the threads or body parts.The latest Mag I purchased is the 2D Incandescent in Gray, and the standard bulb was the first thing to be thrown (not even kept as a spare!) thats how bad the light output is. These were replaced with the NiteIze LED upgrade bulbs, the 1Watt as the main light and the poorer performance bulb as the spare in the tail cap. The Maglite now has slightly better performance, 'slightly being' whiter light with possibly 20% more distance but still suffers the black hole issue with the reflector as you adjust. The LED upgrade gives you about 3 times more battery life and is just a good all round upgrade compared to the incandescent bulb, I have even tried other bulbs that promise 'whiter' light to no avail!The torch still has the generic rubber switch, I wish Maglite would change this to a metal switch like on the tailcap's on a Led Lenser, the rubber eventually perishes and I have to constantly nourish it with silicone spray to stop it drying out. Otherwise the button assembly is bomb proof and I have never had any issues with it ever.The threads and fitting of the head (reflector) and the tail-cap, both have large rubber gaskets and very well machined threads. From factory there seems to be a 'bee spit's' worth of lubrication, so I wipe that off and put on a good quality PTFE based grease on the threads and some silicone spray on the gaskets to condition them. I find that there is a better water resistance created when I do this to my Mag's.Overall, the product is presented flawlessly. The Mag's anodizing (both exterior and interior on all parts) is beautiful and exterior kerneling is perfect. I wish that MagLite Industries would come out with optional accessories like a window breaker bezel or tail cap and some better optics that hug the bulb better that would reduce the 'black hole' issue, also a tempered glass / UV filtered bulb glass in the head. Some of these options or upgrades would make a Maglite more personalised and sentimental.Otherwise the Maglite is something that you buy once and just maintain it for years, keep it clean and serviceable and keep an eye on your batteries that they're not leaking and it will look after you when its needed!