How about a Orange Dry with a brown center :) Tutorial as well!!!

That actually looks fantastic! Traditional black & gold…nice!

I masked up a Solarforce L2i (sorry, Foy) and hit it with oven cleaner. Five minutes later, the ano slid off.

Into the oven it went:

Here's how it came out, before polishing :

I did a Solarforce L2M body, and it came out nicely :

Haha u r a mad man ,very cool

did you mask with tape? I was thinking candle wax might work well...

I used green frog tape in 2-3 layers, and went the harsher chemical route to minimize soaking time.

Next try will be with rubber cement. I've had good luck masking with that in the past.

good idea

fyi, oven cleaner from "dollar tree" works as well as easy-off. the stuff is like magic for neglected carburetors :)

I must stop.(just one more?) I do see benefits though. It cleans up the ano, especially on the threads. Also makes your lights unique and is a way of indentifying them from other people's. Say someone stole your lights and were caught but how would you prove they were yours if they dont have serial numbers. nevermind.....

A gas torch is really a fast way to do it. I was thinking of heating one up to the point were it just starts to change color and then dropping water or oil on it.

The 504B is almost handsome now.

Looks like I need to bake the tube a little longer. My F15 is now the automotive equivalent of a 1997 Eldorado with a carriage roof, wide white walls and a Continental kit.

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This one is for Boaz. I know how much he loves these lanterns. I went a little too hard on this. You would not be able to reach this temp in an oven. The kd c8 is to show the difference in color.

@edc: Is the top light a Yezl Z1? I have that exact light but mine doesn't say CREE on the faceplate. I'm interested because it is really my crappiest light, but I like the size and form. Turning it into a copper or bronze color would be a definite improvement

I believe it to be the Ultrafire 2100 - basically the same light as the Yezl

Ah, thanks. Looks good in copper either way

correct!

Amazing, simply amazing. I had more fun doing this than a kid in a candy shop.

Hahaha I’m glad I brought some fun to u guys, I’m cooking a lot of lights to ,will show soon ,lol it’s addictive

yep, I was skeptical at first..then fired up the toaster oven on broil and threw er in...ten minutes later I was whoopin. Wife thought I had burned kitchen stove as it smelled for a minute or so.(old lube i guess). When I showed her what I'd done she laughed out loud. Alchemy Alchemy....turning black soot into GOLD....LMAO !!

I tried this out on the bezel and tail cap of a cheap torch I had. Instead of putting it in the oven I put it under the grill for more direct heat. I think the problem with putting it in the oven is even at the highest temp the element will be switched on and off to maintain a constant temp. The grill just runs flat out. It worked well and I got a nice bronze effect after ten minutes. Not able to post pictures at the moment.

I had to crank it up to 500 degrees before anything happened. I put an L2i in @350 and it did nothing. Gonna try again at 500.

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Broil not bake :wink:

Ohhhh . . . .

I did it wrong. No wonder it took four hours.

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