Maglite Heavy-Duty Incandescent 3-Cell D Flashlight, Black

As advertised.

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.

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.

Best flashlight to buy

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 once went on a camping trip we're a friend of mine had one of these flashlights and it was so big that he used it over his shoulder. His light was going long after the rest of us were carrying dead flashlights.This flashlight goes for $50 now, which is entirely too much, but when I bought it it was significantly less. I got the one that had extra batteries because I wanted to be able to rely on it. When I bought it I bought the special mounting clips and I mounted it under my staircase so that it would be really easy to find in the event of a power outage. Once the power outage finally came, the light wouldn't turn on despite the fact that the batteries within it were brand new.I bought this model because it looked like it would double as a club or a hammer if I needed it, and it looked like it should last forever. It also has a ren tear warranty, but do not be fooled, they won't cover anything.I'm not an expert in electrical items, but I didn't think that I had to be to own something basically like a flashlight. I had a game boy that had batteries in it for 10 years, and it loaded up and played pokémon right away, but there's something that batteries do inside aluminum casing called gasing. Had to look this up on the internet, because it turns out that this is a problem that people have with these flashlights, and I just wasn't aware of it. So needless to say, I have never actually used this flashlight because at the time that I depended upon it it failed. It was past the time where Amazon would even acknowledge my problem, and the maglite company wouldn't honor the warranty because they're maintaining that it's the batteries that failed and not the flashlight, but it's also my understanding that the battery is react with the aluminum, and it was the flashlight itself that caused the batteries to damage the flashlight.Couple of the YouTube videos say that the way to get around this problem is to every 3 weeks take all of the batteries out of the flashlight and let it breathe, so if you're in the market for a new pet this flashlight may be for you.Apparently once these batteries degas, they will cause a corrosive reaction that freezes the batteries in place. At the time that I got this, I got a second smaller light to keep in my truck, and that one leaked so badly that it ate through the casing. I am trying to repair this on my own, because again, Amazon won't stand behind their product and neither will the company that manufactured it. To some extent this is operator error, but to another extent, this is a known problem that you as a consumer may not know and will magically be expected to know despite the fact that nobody official will tell you anything about it at the time of purchase or even afterwards.My model had an incandescent light, so for $25 I would just get like 25 of those super bright LED tactical lights that will clip onto your hat. They run off of AA battery, so you'll pay less for light get brighter light, and spend less on batteries. I bought a nice set of aluminum flashlights with clips about 3 years ago. They still have the same double a battery inside them, and they never cause the battery within to explode and they're all ticking along like a dream.If any company involved in this wants to make it right, I'd be happy to take this review down, but in the meantime I do think that people should learn from my suffering. If you know what you're getting into, this is probably a good purchase. Again, the flashlight is dirty, and underneath all of this battery acid it's entirely possible the light works underneath all of this corrosion. I can also tell you that both ends of the flashlight come apart, but there's a retaining clip that I can't figure out how to remove so I can't pound at it from the opposite end, and there's a switch mechanism that requires a special type of tool which is not a hex tool that normal people have or a screwdriver that normal people have. Repairing this on my own might be easier if I had access to weird machinist tools, but I'm just a guy who wanted a flashlight in the case of a power outage. I spent entirely too much money to not solve that problem.