Let There Be Light…

Urban Transit’s Tactical Pick-up Light and Rollcage Utility Light

We are not cavemen. Sure we may grunt and snort when working on our cars and bikes. And sure we might be all grimey and have bad “people” manners. Like our caveman Zog and his clan, we are also resourceful.

I did my research. I discovered a rare photograph Gary Larson took of Zog. Zog was trying to keep the secret of his great-grandfather on his mom’s side’s first to use fire other than warmth. Soon after cooking that dinosaur steak on a skewer, the skewer caught fire. Zog ran into the cave and used fire to find his way in the darkness. He invented the Light Stick.

Just like our friends at Urban Transit.

Zog’s family trait of inventiveness has been passed down the line to great x10 grandson Don Barnes, President at DELK Products in Nashville, Tennessee. Barnes directed his design team with Urban Transit to use electroluminescence in a brilliant new way. They came up with several examples to help us neanderthals in the garage.

Today we are able to wrap our opposable thumbs around the light stick they call the Tactical Pick-up Light. A push of the button with your thumb and 220 lumens of photons from energy released in electron holes fill the cavernous garage with beautiful white light. Another hit on the button and a blazing 500 lumens are sprayed in the hollow lighting up where that 10mm socket rolled off too. A third hit on the button and a narrow beam of 14 lumen light is directed out the end of the stick and follows a telescoping magnet to actually catch that 10mm socket lying in wait, looking up at me with a sly grin.

Uh, yeah, they didn’t stop there.

Nope, The designers at Urban Transit, said, Oh, that’s cool, but what if you need something more stationary in your cave? The RollCage Utility Light is just the thing. Handy to hold, and sturdy to sit, the RollCage Utility Light covers wide spaces with 170° of electroluminescence glory. In low mode you and the misses can share a romantic can of spaghettio’s on shop stools with 375 lumens of white light. Medium light showers the room with 750 bright lumens, and HIGH BEAM produces a retina burning 1,500 lumens of luminosity! There’s no flying c-clip that can escape the brightness of this blaze of radiant light. The “cage” recharges in a mere 2 hours and has a 1/4 20 thread to attach it to a tripod!

So, keep on grunting, get grimey, maybe work on those people skills, and finish your project in glorious light.

Git yers at: UrbanTransit.com/