FW3A, a TLF/BLF EDC flashlight - SST-20 available, coupon codes public

Clips are money makers I have no idea why people don't make them widely available .

One of these (or all) probably fits.

https://www.banggood.com/TOWILD-Lantern-DIY-Flashlight-Disffuser-for-Reading-Table-Lamp-Camping-Lantern-p-1306663.html?cur_warehouse=CN

https://www.banggood.com/Nitecore-NTW25-LED-Flashlight-Diffuser-For-Diameter-25_4MM-p-937541.html?cur_warehouse=CN

https://www.banggood.com/Nitecore-NDF25-LED-Flashlight-Diffuser-25_4mm-For-EA1EA2EC1-p-937555.html?cur_warehouse=CN

The first is flexible (25-30mm), the other 2 are specified as 25.4mm.

The FW3A head is measured at 25.5mm but i am betting this is at the absolute thickest part where the knurling is and that the front of the head is slightly smaller… (25.4mm??? :slight_smile: )

The Nitecore (3rd one) looks very close, just not as opaque.

I agree. If at all possible, you should wait until someone has tested the production version and not rush to buy it the second it comes available. This should go with any light, but I know it will be hard especially with the FW3A :slight_smile:

Glue on the switch pcb would be better than glue on the threads of the tailcap, if it is possible and will still work.

I have a NDF25, actually. It’s … not good. It doesn’t fit well, and it’s virtually transparent. It mostly just sends light out the front, after filtering the light a bit like a prism to make the beam an ugly yellow.

The FW3A diameter is 25.5mm, not 25.4mm, and this is actually enough of a difference to make some 25.4mm cones not fit well.

I’ve tried every diffuser I can find at banggood and fasttech, and a few from independent stores too. I haven’t found one I like, and the closest one so far is the Fenix AOD-S. It’s just slightly too tight, not opaque enough, and an odd shape… but it works at least okay-ish.

Sign me for 1 flashlight, please, if it’s not late

Why not drill a hole in a ping-pong ball?
It works very well as a diffuser.

Maybe that’s something they do over in Romania but here in America we like to throw money away at silly pointless “solutions” that don’t work right anyway…

I am interested to buy one. Put me on the list please!

I'm curious, how do you drill a 25 mm hole into a ping-pong ball without destroying it? Thanks.

Maybe a small hole saw.

An exacto knife worked. Pingpong balls have the same flaw as most other diffusors: more light is directed upwards than sideways (with flashlight facing up).

Pic is a pp ball on a E2L triple.

There’s other ways to make holes in thin plastic that don’t involve drills…

Get a Cu pipe slightly smaller than the head diameter of the light, heat it up, let it melt a hole.

Clearly won’t work though, in America ping-pong balls are only used for one thing: adolescents throw them at plastic cups, arranged like the pins in bowling and filled with an inch of beer in the bottom. They repeat this nightly for 4 to 8 years till they’ve spent $100k and “earned” an almost useless piece of paper with the name of the “school” at which they played the above game most often.

Any other use of said “ping-pong balls” is strictly forbidden here in America.

Not an optimum solution then. But thanks for the exacto knife tip.

Wouldn’t celluloid ping pong balls burst into flames when fitted on a hot rod flashlight?

That reminds me of the quote:“college is just a bar with a high cover charge”.

Here’s a CRX solution for a diffuser (of that specific light,but that can serve as inspiration) :slight_smile:

Ping pong ball… I was wondering how, I thought of trying a belt sander…it’d cut a plane through the ball…just stop when the diameter is right….
I’d try but I dont have a ping pong ball

Drop one of these on instead of the diffuser. Would be kind of interesting to see.

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32853382601.html?trace=wwwdetail2mobilesitedetail&productId=32853382601&productSubject=-

Its not the Ping pong balls fault. The flaw is in the flashlight.