What did you mod today?

I here ya. :beer:

Of course, I stood in front of the lathe in my Teva sandals with the thermometer on the wall a few feet away showing 37 degrees Fahrenheit… glutton for punishment! That big 3” bar was COLD! It had been 25 degrees at sunrise just a couple of hours before I went out to the shop.

I HATE cold weather!

5 degrees here this morn, 10 degrees right now, brutal winds today, they say up to 50 MPH, almost lost our new gazebo. Coldest in a while, maybe couple years.

Yeah, well, you can just keep that nastiness over there with you! It was in the 60’s today and that’s fine with me… lol

My health suffers more in cold, I get a chill and it’s torture for this ol boy, literally, like being hooked up to invisible defib paddles. So yeah, warm weather can’t get here soon enough!

(They call it Conversion Disorder, like a fight or flight reflex to stress… emotional or physical the result is the same, horrific muscle spasms. 20 years of it now. I do heat SO much better.)

Made my SD10 BLF edition into a true BLF light.

Built a 22mm TA driver, stacked it onto the stripped factory board, flashed it with Anduril and wired it all up. Yes the driver has some extra solder, I hand soldered it with a large chisel tip just to see if I could (I usually use hot air).

Looks like you been busy

This is what I did back in 2016, but it's been on my long list for more mod upgrading to a better driver, better LED. As you can see, I wired up the switch LED as well, running an early version of Narsil.

I've been using an old TrustFire 32650 6000 mAh in mine with the protection circuit removed - works great, low resistance after removing the PC.

Lol dang, I was gonna make a direct fit driver but I figured no one else would ever possible use one. I was just gonna size the SP33 driver up and adjust the switch board location, probably would of been less physical work than this way…

Did you put then spring back and ground yours the way it came or delete the ground wire / screw / little spring? I deleted all that crap on mine, Idk why it was there in the first place, this light doesn’t have ground path issues or anything (it’s actually surprisingly good considering the drop-in pill design).

Funny story, I forgot the factory board wasn’t DTP so when I first fired it up the factory XM-L2 (which I kept cause I really liked the tint in ended up after gas dedoming) it went blue instantly, talk about an interesting smell (didn’t realize an LED going blue made a smell lol). Took it back apart and put it back together with an XP-L HI for now, I’m thinking it’s gonna get a NW HCRI SST-20 before it’s done. Also having some intermediate aux LED issue, like you I picked a random pad to put a resistor on and air wired it, probably got a bad joint or something so it will need to coma back apart sometime before I can really call it done.

Here’s how I did my connections

Edit: oh man, post # 3535!

Ohhh, pretty sure I kept the spring, screw, etc. -- pretty sure, been a while, March 2016 I did the mod. Kind of messy light to mod for sure but the 32650, if you got one, is what makes it unique, but also makes a nice compact 26650 light.

i modded the battery springs to one of these a couple nights ago

light

re-vampted the springs, simply place a battery the wrong way round to get nearly 1.2 lum’s in the glow from the springs, also added a hum to the stepless ramp mode. missed the vidio sorry guys.

ermmmm… dohhhhh!

Happens to the best of us :wink: Not that I am :person_facepalming:
Same happened to me 2 weeks ago. Tried to check the tailswitch light of one of my lights with an 18650.
Had the switch been open, the light would go on. But the switch was closed and I melted the spring(s).

ahhh yes but getting the added whineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee lol

Hmm, you guys make me think about modding my old BLF SD10. It still is a nice clean design. And there’s Soshine 32650 batteries around now (this link has a feedback that measures that in a Opus charger) that measure 7000mAh and probably perform better than the old Trustfires.

I finally received a couple of Convoy S2+ 18350 tubes that I ordered. It turns them into an even more compact EDC and my Luxeon V triple still draws 14 amps from the very impressive Keeppower 18350, making it ridiculously bright for its size.

Modded some brass tube.

I like the bolt action.

i like the shiney brass

Like it. I want to know how he did it. That must be so small. I smell an alien here or alien technology. :beer:

Filed down a #14 nickel-plated brass finishing washer tonight. Thinking of attaching it to my clear E07.

I don’t think the E07 really needs a washer to prevent accidental activation as the light is big enough it doesn’t move around in the pocket much and the button is small and flush. However, this washer would provide a little more protection and would make it easier to find the button by feel when reaching into a pocket.

The washer slightly overhangs the flat part of the light around the button. If I end up gluing it on I’ll try to fill up the gap so the lower edge can’t get caught on something.

Here is what it looks like not glued on yet:

Washers seem to be the thing for anti-pocket burn lately. That one looks like a nice one firelight :+1: