Video - How I Stipple a Reflector

Haha, you da man, Old, you da man :bigsmile: :bigsmile: Great vid! :beer:
Would be great to see before and after beam shots, just to see how much throw is affected and how much it smooths beam down :wink:

Whe I first heard about stippling a reflector , some of the practitioners actually damaged the apeture of the spray can to achieve a coarser spray . Others became experts at pushing the button just hard enough to control the coarseness of the spray pattern . Some even felt that a nearly empty can produced the best spray pattern .

I think the hair spray is not suited for the job and the spray head will not give a coat like a paint head will.

Yep, I probably need to do that, with the next Maglite D build. Guess I had better write it down, before I forget…

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What am I supposed to remember again?

LOL

For anyone that lacks "holy underwear" just hold it with your hand and wash it off in the sink. That's what I just did a few minutes ago on one of my reflectors. :D

Nice Video Old-Lumens!! Great info.

I thought I could smell paint earlier!! :wink:

Many Thanks!!

Thanks OL, I’ve always wanted to see this as I have a light or two I’d like to apply this treatment too.

Very informative, thanks for sharing.

lol :bigsmile: Who are you? Where am I? :bigsmile:

OK, don’t know where to ask this stuff but will try here: have someone tried SMO reflector with XML and de-domed XML with OP/stripple reflector (same reflector or very similar size)?

I haven’t seen any threads on it. I am going to do SMO and Stippled on the Nichia 219 and then on an XM-L T6, but I don’t plan on de-doming anything, unless it’s by accident. The 219 should be done this week-end and the XM-L might be a couple weeks away. I can’t do lumens testing, so it will just be beam shots on the same night, in the same light.

One thing to be aware of when using this technique on high-powered, heat generating lights is the tendency of the spray to yellow…

I did this tonight, but the outer part of the reflector smooths out every time (did it twice).
The center looks good though, I wonder what I’m doing wrong, maybe need more distance?

my bad…
it just depends on the side from which you look.
from the side, it looks like it`s smooth towards the wider end of the reflector.
like in my first pic (even though, in the picture it looks more stippled than in person)

but when I checked it from a different angle, I could see that it was stippled all over the place, as seen in my next picture:

anyway, all is good now!

Can someone try to stipple only the inner half/part of the reflector? :stuck_out_tongue:

You should try it and report back to us.Wink

I don’t have any spare reflector :frowning: I can only try it in my P60 drop-in or HD2010 :expressionless: Wish I had another SMO P60 reflector :~ I only have 2 spare switches that came with Xeno and ITP, and a bunch of o-rings :bigsmile:

Thanks for posting this Old-Lumens. I can't wait to try it out.

Will this technique remove the donut hole when using say an MKR?

It will not remove the donut hole. The best way to lessen the donut hole is by moving the reflector up or down to get the best focus. After that, the stippling will "help" smooth things out.

Mmmmmm, donuts…