What did you mod today?

Thanks Dale.

The red cedar is my all time favorite wood I think. Love the smell of raw Cedar and when you put a coat of Polyurethane on the outside of a piece it just really makes it pop.

If I can reign in my flashlight spending habit, I might have to commission you to build me a corner cabinet with the Cedar, glass inserts in the face (door) and a light inside with maybe mirror panels in the corner sides to reflect light and show the lights in a 3D perspective. Thatā€™d be cool, brass knobs on the door and brass hinges on the red wood. Dang, what am I talking myself into here?!!!

hahaā€¦ā€¦what are you talking US into?

I am sure it could be done thoughā€¦ā€¦just have to get me some more cedar here to start drying good before I try to make something like that. I would hate to put it together and then have something crack 6 months or a year down the road from the wood drying out.

Robo, do you or does anyone watching here know if the blue bezel on an Olight S1A unscrews or is it a press fit?

I got a beautiful little solid copper S1A with Rose Gold PVD coating and they put a cool white XM-L2 in it, coming through the TIR itā€™s got a slight green tint. Iā€™d like to put an XP-L V6 3D in it. Donā€™t want to mess up the gorgeous finish though, so I thought Iā€™d ask firstā€¦

It is probably same fitment as the S1 Baton and S-Mini, on those lights the bezel is press fit.

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I thought it might the case, thanks Bobby. Not really what I wanted to hear but I guess thatā€™s better than threaded and glued tight as a tick on a hound dog.

Now I have to decide if the color is off enough to make me attack this gorgeous lightā€¦

It is doable without damaging anything, at least i successfully opened my S1 Baton and S-mini, the S-mini was rose gold version and it did not have single scratch after my work to it.

There is video from a BLF member Thomas X3 on youtube on how to remove the bezel without doing damage to the light.

Here is the video

Nice mod on a few chunks of wood robo. :+1:

Definitely, and thanks for linking my personal YouTube channel :slight_smile:

Success! :slight_smile:

I used a tough little knife, Buck Strider Mini, and worked around til the bezel was loose enough to remove. Filed down a 16mm Noctigon til it fit in place of the stock aluminum mcpcb, then used a 365nm UV light to locate a preferred XM-L2 tint in my binsā€¦ as it so turned out I removed one of the 4 XM-L2 U2ā€™s that came in my Nitecore TM16 (it has XHP-35ā€™s now)

Thinned the Noctigon a bit to match the stock thickness, leaving it a hair tallā€¦. bezel and TIR went back in nicely and it now has a near perfect neutral tint, probably a 1D to make a guess at it (Nitecore doesnā€™t specify tint bin)

My momā€™s pearl white Buick LaCrosse looks splendid in the light from this S1A now so Iā€™m happy with it.

No scratches, no gap, looks stock but has the nicer tint. A win for sure. Thanks for clearing up the style of bezel for me, appreciate it. :smiley:

Beam before modificationā€¦ the plant light is a Cree COB rated at 93CRI for comparison sakesā€¦

The solid copper S1A in Rose Gold PVAā€¦after the modā€¦

And the beam after the mod, much nicer color! The picture on the wall is a 16x20 canvas of my son when he was little.

The ceiling tiles, for white balance perception, are white styrofoam. :wink:

I have an Astrolux SC that really like but was not using it because is to heavy for my taste, so modded with a xhp-70.2 NW from KD, a MTN Fet driver and two windyfire 14500 IMR.
Cut the threads from the tailcap and soldered two pieces of copper plumbing tube. Inner/outer diamenter and lenth are perfect fit, just plug and solder.
8.7A startup and 3.4A at 30sec nearly burning hot.


Soldering: phone camera show pink but it was really red.

Final result: love the burned look.

That is one extreme mod A380. I also like the real rustic look of it. Nice work. :beer:

Looks like a really nice piece of junk. :smiley:
Nobody will ever think to steal it.

Cool job! :+1:

Nice job A380.
And once you start using it parts will become shiny again from wear, adding to the character!

Thanks!

Djozz, itā€™s more heavy tā€™han before, so donā€™t think Iā€™m going to use much more. :wink:

Dale, can you please tell the diameter of the LED plate? Or, if you canā€™t say that, can you tell me what diameter the flashlight take (14mm or 16 mm)?
Thank you in advance :wink:

I think it was a 14mm MCPCB, Iā€™ll measure it here directly and let you know. Took a good bit of filing on a 16mm Noctigon. Had to thin the Noctigon down some too.

Measured, yes itā€™s 14mm.

Thank you Dale :wink: I thought it would be 14mm too, but couldnā€™t be sure! These are only measurements for a future mod :wink:
Thanks :+1:

EDIT: Thanks for the confirmation Dale :smiley:

Manker U11 18650

NarsilM V1.0 3C1S

L6 Switch PCB

Blue LED

Moon

10K Very nice

Nice work Steel! Sweet pics too, thanks for sharing!

At least it has a chunk of heat sink thatā€™s one piece, so maybe it did need a little tightening up, fairly easily corrected it looks like and now itā€™s a very sweet light, good job all around! :slight_smile: