Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Salvaging a flashlight

i have a mini mag right here that's locked up tight
with good batteries that spewed. i've tried before
to get a battery company to warranty a corroded flashlight
with no luck. there's another in the next room that's in
an envelope ready to take to the post office, but i'm in
a quandary as to whether to risk the $7.00 or so on postage
when the single AAA maglight is like $9.00 new to replace
on my own or let them replace it or maybe they won't and
i'll be out the $7.00 even though the light itself is bad
and the battery did not spew or fail.
fwiw, i do have maybe 10 or so of the free harbor freight
lights here and at the outpost that when they quit they
just get tossed and replaced with another free one.

it's sad that when i was young all we had was the chrome
plated d cell light and i don't ever remember one getting
messed up because of batteries. you did have to shake the
hooey out 'em sometimes and buy a new bulb every 4 or 5
years