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

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.

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

Will the code be the same for the LH351D and XP-L versions? I put in for an XP-L but now I’m thinking about getting the LH351D version. I guess the BLF answer would be to get both :money_mouth_face:

Thanks

Well that is sorta flawed logic. If nobody buys the first run except for a few people, then there won’t be a second run. I can’t think of a single company that would produce say, 10000 of a product, look back and say, “well nobody bought the first run, lets make 10000 more”. Even if most people would wait it out before buying one, you would still get a first run product. They aren’t going to throw the first run away and run a second batch.

I plan to get the first run that is offered if I can. :+1: