Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
|
|
|
Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 19, 2018 - 11:19am PT
|
An excerpt from previous previous thread on NA Wall:
The lead out of the Cyclops Eye was rated A5. It supposedly required some sky hooks and we were prepared with a Dolt Cobra – a sky hook with an attitude. It was my lead. We wanted to reach the summit that day so we decided to start very early. With my trusty Dolt Twinkledolt, I embarked on a wild lead into the dark.
Twinkledolts were headlamps that defied description, but I’ll make an attempt: A band of stretch material, probably a discarded elastic bandage, had glued to it a bare lamp socket, like those found in the interior old flashlights. A thin wire, about three feet of it, ran out the back of the socket to a bare plastic battery holder of two C batteries. The lamp bulb was of the focusing type – it concentrated the light beam in front of the wearer. One turned the bulb clockwise to complete the circuit, counterclockwise to kill it. Extremely lightweight on your head, even by today’s standards and they worked. The battery pack was carried in your pants pocket where the weight was of no consequence.
Timeline: These were produced and used in the late summer of 1968.
|
|
ground_up
Trad climber
mt. hood /baja
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2018 - 11:38am PT
|
Wow ! That is awesome , talk about old school .
|
|
chill
climber
The fat part of the bell-curve
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2018 - 12:18pm PT
|
I really thought this was another trump thread
|
|
Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2018 - 12:20pm PT
|
Trump: Dolt, definitely. Twinkle?
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2018 - 12:30pm PT
|
Stunning technology, up there with the steam engine and diesel engine!
Seriously the TwinkleDolt has to be seen to be appreciated and maybe Lauria can bring one along to the next Grossman show...........
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2018 - 01:20pm PT
|
Mr Lauria, your description was most adequate.
Probably worked at least as well as the Wonder light.
Where was the Consumer Protection Agency when we needed it?
|
|
Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2018 - 01:48pm PT
|
Yea, people who bought them didn't realize that they were called Wonder Lights because you always had to wonder whether they would even work.
|
|
ron gomez
Trad climber
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2018 - 02:01pm PT
|
Thanks Don, put a smile on my face, amoung the tears from the last few days. Still have it? See you in a few weeks? Hope so.
Peace
|
|
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2018 - 03:34pm PT
|
and we're spozed to believe in moon landings?
|
|
karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2018 - 06:05pm PT
|
Don, You mentioned the TwinkleDolt to me many years ago. Great to see a photo of it!
|
|
Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2018 - 08:47pm PT
|
awww, so great you found it and posted it!!! Thx Don!
A prelude to the modern headlamp?
A goofy contraption?
Ingenuity gone wild!
awesome!
|
|
john hansen
climber
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2018 - 09:17pm PT
|
So , if you put a couple battery's in there would it still work?
Looks like the contacts and springs are pretty clean.
|
|
mynameismud
climber
backseat
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2018 - 09:39pm PT
|
similar in build to some of the modern lamps. Super cool.
|
|
Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2018 - 12:08am PT
|
Hansen,
Would need a bulb, too. Can you still buy twist-base bulbs?
|
|
Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2018 - 12:16am PT
|
Grossman,
I didn't remember the TwinkleDolt display at Oakdale. Where did you get it?
|
|
Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
|
|
|
Feb 20, 2018 - 10:21am PT
|
I borrowed it along with some other Chouinard hardware from you man.
Cheers
|
|
Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2018 - 11:26am PT
|
Well, duh, you'da thought I shoulda remembered that.
|
|
Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
|
|
|
Feb 20, 2018 - 11:50am PT
|
Damn that thing looks kinky...
|
|
tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
|
|
|
Feb 20, 2018 - 12:37pm PT
|
we had some monstrosity made out of a rubber innertube that had a single D cell holder on the back of it. It weighed about as much as a joe brown helmet. Sold by Climb High so likely a brittish or scottish invention??? They also sold a fancy battery for cold weather use. that battery cost about a weeks wages so I was always afraid to use it...
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!