Got the D4 heads today Richard, thanks for doing that for me, you are the man for sure.
Anything I can do for you just holler, maybe wash your truck.? Buy the plane ticket from WA and I’m on it… ha ha,
Always will be loyal to Mt. no matter what…!
Hank, you can probably do some of both for a good result…. file out the retaining ring a bit AND round off the corners of the 7135’s. The little box with the brown middle is the capacitor, allowing the retaining ring to touch that ground side of the cap is ok.
The 7135’s are pretty forgiving, but you have to keep from exposing the internal metal bits to the ground of the retaining ring. That retaining ring looks unusually wide, is it a shelf at the top and the sides are not that thick? You can always leave the retaining ring completely off on those brass pills and simply solder the ground ring to the brass pill on 2 sides, or 3 points, you’d just have to desolder that ground connection to remove the driver. It’d be cleaner without the retaining ring, pretty easy to do.
> do some of both
Good advice, thanks.
Yes, those Convoy retaining rings (I asked Simon to sell me extras a while back, and also got a bunch from Fasttech) have a thin cylindrical sidewall and a fairly big shelf — the shelf is the part pictured that has been notched with a file.
It overhangs the 7135s or whatever other component is near the edge of the driver.
The sidewall contacts the ground ring around the edge of the driver and clears the driver components.
Hi NewLumen, I was catching up on some posts and noticed your L2 questions so realizing I’m just a bit late I didn’t see any mention of the fact there’s a huge L2 thread here by J-Dub and if you don’t know who that is that’s alright, I’d say he’s one of the best of the best at modding the L2 or so it seemed to me, here is that huge thread for you friend, Convoy L2...Guess who's back???
By the way there’s some links in the OP to a modding thread and some others as well.
Good luck Great Light for sure…
J-Dub works closely with Simon in the development of his Convoy lights, J-Dub doesn’t do modding himself, he’s got me and Kawiboy for that. 
Ah, thanks for the tuneup, I knew he was working with Simon and has came up with some great ideas for Simon, but just sort of assumed I guess on his overall mod abilities.
You my friend are most certainly one of the best if not the most fully well rounded modder here and even more so since you got the lathe to work with, that really up the game for you.
You are impressive, Perhaps someday I will have to see if you still remember how to mod a Ti C8, someday, maybe… ha ha
Thanks Dale
Thanks , but you’ll have to remember it’s a Ti X6 first. 
lol
The lathe changes one’s perspective tenfold, being able to cut threads and mate two pieces together without worrying about standards to create a one-off is one of the most fun parts about it, and of course virtually nothing stands in the way of creating whatever your need demands. Currently making a rather large heat-sink/tube extender. It’s not as glamorous as it might seem though because there is a tremendous amount of repetitive work making mounds of shavings to get where you wish to go. This translates to a lot of time standing at the lathe, cramps in the back, and sore feet. Grueling, but so satisfying in the end. (nothing fun about boring a 32650 tube) Barring the finances to buy the proper tools, one must make do with what one has…. in my case that is a large quantity of time. The lathe becomes a black hole for your extra time, absorbing you past meal times and family outings. (I’m hoping it’ll carve some extra weight off my frame, in the heat that seems so prevalent here.)
At the end of a dream project, you sit back and look at the initial investment in a host, materials, emitters, reflectors, cells, and then you start thinking about those hours… nothing budget about the process, that’s for sure! Still, hoping to build my first honest 20,000+ lumen achievement. 
(If I can just remember where I was when I stopped…hate it when parts come in and I’ve forgotten why I ordered them!)
I generally either do a mod right away when the parts come in… or I wait until I don’t remember what the parts were for. I’ve got a lot of parts now.
You only THINK you’ve got a lot of parts! You should see what happened over here when I bought Old-Lumens out. Still trying to wrap my mind around what I have on hand and am constantly finding things I didn’t know I had. lol
I started making an extension tube for the massive TR-J20 last night, and when I got inside I realized I had taken a tangent with the emitters I have coming in and planned to do a different light with them, so I got started on the big extension with the wrong idea in mind. Now I will probably use it to make DBC-06. (I seem to be a glutton for punishment, 06 will be a lot of work)
That’s fair. I shouldn’t complain about a puddle getting my shoes wet… to someone who is up to their neck in a lake.
Hey, I just noticed you’re now selling batteries on the international version of your site
It says that the buyer assumes responsibility for confiscated packages with more than 4 batteries, does that mean that if the order has 4 batteries or less, MTN electronics will refund it if it gets confiscated?
Or is there no problem with <=4 batteries? (I’m in canada btw)
Also, when you ship the batteries, I assume that you are forced to use ground shipping, correct?
Hahaha, I’m not organized, not at all, and I got some 8 compartmentalized boxes from Justin with all sorts of bits and pieces. One is dedicated to emitters, one is all driver components, copper rounds, copper sheet, MagLite parts, and a bin box with lenses, reflectors, o-rings and 2 full boxes of standard and metric o-rings as well. Epoxy, Arctic Silver, Thermal Paste, soldering equipment, a hot air/soldering station that got me hooked on hot air guns (and then it QUIT) Even a shop sink with legs for hot dipping to get a flame design or whatever, and 2 bench top drill presses as well as a portable band saw with different blades. Stuff on top of stuff on top of all my mess of stuff.
I should take inventory some day and get it all merged and organized. I’ve got DigiKey boxes holding driver parts, maybe 5 of em, and even Flat Rate post office boxes with bits and pieces. If I ever get my Mom’s clothes folding table cleared and freed she’ll probably swoon. Yep, I’ve semi-invaded the laundry room.
Seriously, when you get to the point that you yourself realize you’re adding Insane to Mad Scientist, it’s gotten bad…
See back in the right, the stacks of clear compartment boxes? Some of the stuff from Justin…
And Mom’s surger and sewing machine? Inaccessible. My bad, really meant to clear all of it up before surgery, then the day came that I had a Dr.s appointment and he said he was booked through October, but had a cancellation tomorrow, are you ready to do this? Boom! Suddenly I was plunged into months of recovery and well, my mess is still a mess.
Yeah, bet you thought I was exaggerating about the stuff on top of stuff, huh? Gotta get on top of this….
People are going to think this is the MTN fulfillment center
One time I went through my online order purchases relating to flashlights. MTN has the most orders and highest dollar figure for me by quite a high margin, followed by Banggood and then Gearbest. Sadly, I’ve bought over $10,000 worth of flashlight related items since I started here almost 5 years ago. My wife probably realizes I’ve spent a lot on lights, but even I was shocked at just exactly how much that is. Literally half of my total expenditures were at MTN.
Edit: I put the “aholic” in Flashaholic. 
The “Budget” part of Budget Light Forum is actually in reference to the fact that being here will BREAK your budget!
Dale! 
Over $10,000 spent on this hobby!? :person_facepalming: Get some help, man!
I’d be glad to take some of that burden off your hands…
A new member recently contacted me asking if I sell my mods, might have to in order to buy Christmas gifts. Getting back up to 150+ lights again, don’t know how that happens…
I tell myself a couple grand a year ain’t so bad, I used to smoke that much in cigarettes and I hate to think how much I drank years ago. I know guys with 50 or 60 fishing poles, knives, guns even. So I’m not doing so bad, not really. And hey, when the power goes out these lights are a lot more handy than a few dozen fishing poles!
Well, I only WISH I could afford that triple XHP-70.2 you made… :weary:
I was talking to my brother about that light, how it starts innocently enough and then you buy 3 of these, 2 of those, one of these, build this, recreate that, before you know it the budget is blown and you’re wondering where it stops. $50 added to it yesterday after it was already doing close to 12,000 lumens. Where does it end?
So now I have 3 XHP-50.2’s to do something with… and on it goes.