you guys keep this sh!# up there going to have to make up a new zodiac sign⌠Year of the FLASHLIGHT lol. Three custom bada$$ torches all at the same time I love you guys keep up the awesome work.
Thanks for your answer Fritz! I guess that will be a nice add to the light, for a better portability, despite the initial look of it is awesome by itself! Good work :+1:
And Iâm itching to get it on my hands
A DEEP carry Titanium clip on a raw Aluminum flashlight? Whatâs the reasoning for that one? It wonât show, and if/when it does show, it wonât match the light itâs attached to.
A titanium body? The limited spreading of the heat that this flashlight already has will be even more localised then!
Think the D4, the head and body are aluminium and have a generous material thickness, and still on turbo the heat is produced so massively that it builds up near the led-shelf without enough heat path to get it away fast enough from there.
The FW3A is built thinner than that, the time on turbo before trouble starts will be even less. Make the body titanium and you can halve even that!
A nice premium version could be made of copper, at least your turbo-time will go up a bit then. It will require a new trick to insulate the inner tube from the outer one, copper can not be simply anodised like aluminium.
The only flashlight of mine that ever actually melted parts was a FET triple in titanium. It got hot enough to melt the legs and bottoms of a carclo optic while the tail of the light was still comfortable to hold. Just a bit longer and it probably wouldâve unsoldered itself. It also burned skin bad enough to leave red welts when I actually touched the head, but luckily no blisters. Titanium is beautiful and I love my ti lights, but titanium hotrods are not a good idea.
Yes. A DEEP carry raw Titanium CLIP on the raw Aluminium FW3A.
In my opinion it matches just fine.
The reason for Titanium is because of the mechanical properties. In its annealed state is much springier then spring tempered stainless and will flex a lot further before it gets deformed. When it does get deformed it can be heated with a torch and re formed to its original shape and not loose any strength. Stainless can't do that. It'll lose its temper and get weaker and eventually break.
Take 2 strips of sheet metal. 1 is stainless steel, 1 is Titanium. Now bend the 2 strips to the point that they crease and don't spring back to their original shape. The Titanium will bend way more and resist deformation much better than the stainless.
Titanium is physically superior to stainless steel as pocket clip material pretty much any way we look at it. It looks better too, IMO.