Petzl Zipka

[Kevin E. Ramsey]

    Kent, thanks, and I agree that LED lights are the wave of the future. I
also use lights by Glo-bug, and Streamlight. I even have one on my keychain,
always handy. No bulbs to burn out or break, and they go forever without
needing a change of batteries.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent Swafford" <kswafford@earthlink.net>
To: "pianotech list" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 6:22 PM
Subject: Petzl Zipka


> I've always carried flashlights in my tool case. The improvements in
> flashlights during the 2+ decades I've been working on pianos has made
life
> better for us piano techs.
>
> I had been using the Petzl Tikka LED headlamp ever since I heard about it
> here on pianotech. It is a 3 LED headlamp on a headband that works 150
hours
> on 3 AAA batteries. It's great for lighting wherever you look, like to
work
> the mutes behind the hammers of a vertical's high treble.
>
> When I was in Colorado last summer I was in a backpacking outfitter store
> and found a new version of the same lamp called the Petzl Zipka. This is a
3
> LED headlamp on a fully retracting, self-storing elastic band. The
advantage
> of the Zipka over the Tikka is that it stores much more neatly and
compactly
> and quickly in the tool case.
>
> Highly, highly recommended.
>
> Here are 2 links:
>
> http://www.petzl.com/FRENG/frheadlamps/zipka.html
>
>
>
http://www.rei.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prmenbr=8000&prrfnbr=10
> 402637
>
> Kent Swafford
>