I received an Exduct order today. It seems shipping from various Hong Kong vendors has been pretty fast lately. 12 days from order.
I got a Sanrenmu 909 and a Ganzo G704. These are great knives. Nice and big, super sharp. The 909 is mine and the Ganzo is my sons. Time to retire my Leatherman from EDC duty, I’m carrying the 909.
I got mine from them a few days ago and I'm quite happy with it too. It opens very easily and I think the green G10 is very attractive. Today I got the 962 I bought off eBay - just before they appeared at DB for half the price I paid. But it's a nice knife and I don't mind too much. My first with a 'spidey' hole. I think I may get a few more of the 900 series before they become hard to find.
I want to gain some experience with other emitters. I was surprised at how few low voltage XR-E drop-ins I was able to find. (in the 10 minutes I was willing to invest looking)
The other day my postie (on a bike) drove up to my door (I have a driveway and path that goes right to my front door) and handed me a package. Bummer it wasn't my missing order from manafont but it was an xm-l drop in!
10x Switch replacement for flashlights rated 1.5A and 250V. Cannot check the manufacturer specs for unknown reasons Model 101. All seems ok and good soldering was involved.
Today I got a reminder that I should think first and act second. I took my L2X extended which I also got today (review will follow) and dropped in a 18650 battery. Only to find out I put my only drop-in (also today) in to my today-received L2. So, as a result a cracking sound followed, as I found out that without a drop-in, a 18650 will fit through the entire host all the way to the lens...
Couple of vittuperkele's (pretty extreme cursing in Finnish) later I headed to the now-too-familiar solarforce-sales to order some premium lenses.
I had to Google translate vittuperkele. Although I have heard and said and read the English equivalent so many times that it doesn't faze me, I just hope there are no impressionable Finnish kids on the forum.
Spoiler alert:
In his first novel, Stephen King eloquently calls it the Eff Word.
I've done that with 1x18650 hosts but I don't think the shorter length gave quite enough time for the battery to reach a speed that would break the lens. I've bought a bunch of AR coated lenses from KD, so I have a lot of the original lenses as extras now.
My Solarforce L2i came today with the $2.50 stainless bezel. This L2i came from solarforce sales and was ordered after an L2 from itc-shop on ebay. The L2 is still out there. We'll see if it beats the L2P that I ordered last from SF sales.
This is a great light. I do feel a little nervous when I tighten it up with an 18650 in it but it works well. I wish I could see inside. I ordered the $2.50 bezel with this one and the L2. I ordered the $5 bezel with the L2P. I dont know about the $5 one yet but I think the less expensive one kind of blows. First I had hell getting it on. There must have been a burr on there somewhere. The standard bezel screwed on nice and the stainless one would screw on backwards but not the way it was supposed to. I ran it on the wire wheel of my grinder a lot and lubed it with CLP and was finally able to wrangle it on. Once it was on I thought it kind of gives the end of the light an unfinished look because there is a gap between the bezel and head when looking at the lense. I think The other bezel covers that up. Maybe I was so frustrated getting the POS on that I am being overly critical. We'll see in the morning.
The light itself is just great though. Everything is so nice. I cant wait for the others to show up.I put a manafont 3 mode XM-L in it. I wish I could buy another drop in but that one is so awsome I cant bring myself to do it.