I like the table of materials and how most of the suppliers are blf members 
Looking forward to the build 
Thanks pinkpanda! Well, that’s a think that will help me to organize myself and that will also let people follow the path! It will not be a big thing but I thought it would be nice!
And yes, I tried to value the community skills and products, as they have the “answers” for my “needs” in this mod 
I may be bothering them with this, but it is a way to value their work!!
Thanks to all of them too
Update #1 - 6th December 2019
Yesterday I got some information about the pill + ring and driver.
Pill & Ring will be done/sent to me within the next 2 weeks;
Driver will probably be sent within the next week, depending on Lexel’s workload.
I also managed to find some stuff I needed to the mod “outside” the flashlight. I went to shoe cobbler here in the city and they sold me some leather and waxed thread for the handle. I also got a needles kit.
Fortunately, yesterday I also managed to get a piece of wood for an eventual extra within the scope of the flashlight mode. There was some tree maintenance near the place where I work and I managed to get a “good” piece of wood! It is still to be assessed if it will be good or not as I work on it. I may need to pick another type of wood for what I need…
I’ve worked on it for a while with the available tools (hacksaw and my Sanrenmu knife, and gloves, of course).
Here are the things I got and the work I’ve done so far!
Materials
Sawing the wood piece
After sawing for a while…I got this, and I got the first casualty in this mod 
Lesson 1: try to saw with appropriate tools 
Lesson 2: use adequate materials for the things you want to do… 
Stay tunned for the next episodes
Oh. My. Goodness. This is not the build I was expecting
Ahah, don’t expect too much, this all may end up wrong
I’m looking forward to your mod MB. 
Thank you MRsDNF!
Will update some things soon, although not much from the flashlight itself
During the last days I made some more “woodwork!!! This isn’t complete yet!
For those wondering what this will ”eventually” be, it will be a flashlight support that I intend to use in 2 different ways!
When it is done, I will join check if it is indeed viable to use it and I will shown its purpose in the overal mod
Not having proper tools, this is what I’ve done using what I have and that is show in the photos.
Filing, drilling, escavating the wood.
In the last photos you’ll see that the woodpiece has a whole. Well, there was a “knot” there that I ‘had to’ escavate to avoid some aesthetic malfunction and it was also in purpose to use the wood for my second purpose that I will show later;)
This is it’s current state! My aim is now to drill/file the bigger hole and make it even! That will be a “light window”
Stay tunned
:nerd_face: :sunglasses:
I see a pipe.
This info may not be of use right now, but seeing what you were doing with the dremel and sanding sleeve reminded me of these. Kutzall makes some super burrs for removing wood, carving with wood. There are different shapes and degrees of coarseness. When they fill up with wood dust use a torch and burn them clean and work again. 1/8 and 1/4” shafts available. They do have sales every so often. Also good are their discs for angle grinders and their hand rasps.
Ahah, maybe a pipelight
That would be a nice idea, yes :student: And with an hot rod like,it would be….smokin :smiling_imp:
Thats MtnDon! Those seem quite nice tools! Unfortunately I don’t even have “dremel” (as in the good ones!).
This is my tool that you see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZhzatfIFKs
It’s a cheap one, and I try the best I can with the bits it has (and some others I was offered last year).
Those bits (burrs?) the Kutzal has would be handy in this case! Thanks for pointing them
I had some time tonight and made a little bit of the flashlight mod! The first and most insignificat part 
I replaced the rubber cap!
The original was a black one, and I put an orange one. I had to cut some pieces of the orange rubber cap to make it fit above the switch and white spacer.
Below you find the photos of how the light is composed in the tailcap.
Also, a justification of my options: Due to the “architecture” of the tailcap, shaped for a tall and fat forward clicky switch, and due to the diameter of the PCB, I will not use a Reverse Clicky Switch (lighted or not) in this flashlight . You can compare how different they are below. Also, I will not bypass the spring. The 4 Samsung or Luxeon will already drain a lot of juice from the cell, so I will avoid more power drain!
For those wondering about the wood piece, here’s a glimpse of what I want
BTW, the clip used in the flashlight is not the one I will use for the final mod.
And here is part of the reason why I will want the wood support !
The rubber tailcap doesn’t allow the flashlight to tailstand correctly, so, putting it into a “hole” will help to maintain it in “candle” position when needed!
Also, I will use a white cap from a liquid yoghurt to make a diffuser when I want to put the flashlight into the wood structure uspside down It will act like a “lantern” instead of a candle.
Keep up the good work MascaratumB! I like your creativity and all the pictures you post.
Cool. A wooden holder for candlelight mode. That’s inventive.
Peace pipe?
Thanks for your words NeutralFan! It is not very creative, specially if we look to other mods and builds, but…it may be something useful for this light
It was inspired in something I am using for my “bedside” flashlight, an Sofirn SP32. I am using a piece of foam from an old perfume box. It works, but foam loses its shape and the flashlight starts to inclinate. So I thought about a more “rigid” structure. From then on…that’s what you’re seeing
Ahaha, I guess some “peace makers” would need a pipe and a light to guide them through the way!
I just hope this ends up well to make it work No smoke!
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BTW folks, I need some help here, please!
I want to put a tritium vial in the tailcap, in the lanyard hole. On the one side I will put the Pocket Clip, and on the other, a trit.
This is the shape of the lanyard hole.
My questions are:
1) what shall I use to glue it there? (ex: epoxy? UV glue?)
2) what techniques to you recommend so that I don’t damage the rest of the host while the glue dries?
I never used/placed tritium, nor epoxy, nor uv glue, so I don’t know the best procedure for this!
Any help is appreciated and thank you in advance
I use a piece of clear tape stuck to the inside of the loop backed with some blutak pressed against it to create a well with a very slightly convex floor then carefully place the vial into the lanyard hole onto the tape and adjust position with a toothpick.
It’s tricky.
Then once I’ve got the vial in place, level, making sure no vial parts (especially tube ends) are protruding past the light body etc I apply some UV glue with a toothpick by slowly dripping in small drops until there is a layer filling the bottom of the well & surrounding the vial.
To help eliminate bubbles you can apply tiny amounts of glue into the vial ends first before placing as there are small pockets on each end which often like to expel tiny air bubbles at just the wrong moment.
Set with UV light making sure no bubbles are hiding, then slowly apply more glue to fill the well some more and harden again.
Fill to a level that covers the vial and is as flush as possible with the body of the light, again tricky due to the curvature.
Then you can remove the tape, give the inside a clean with cottonbud & ISP etc and apply another thin layer to the backside to help protect the vial some.
Hope that gives you some ideas
Mate, you’re a life saver
Thank you so much for the detailed explanation and also the link for the UV glue!
The process I had in mind was more or less similar to what you described, but those tips will help, as I never manipulated those materials! Specially to check the bubbles part!
I guess I will be able to do that according to these guidelines!
If it was a hole prepared for tritium, it would be easier but this can be tricky!
BTW, do I need to make any special preparation of that hole (besides cleaning it well before starting the process)?
Thanks again for your reply mate
And… those lights :heart_eyes: