What did you mod today?

I finally got around to modding a dead COAST G10. This was one of the “free” ones from COAST, that died, and I’d been wanting to get it working again.

Here’s the assembly:

The head:

I used one of the DX AK007 drivers. This is basically a pill-less head. The driver has kind of stiff wires which are soldered to the emitter PCB:

That emitter PCB was one I salvaged out of a cheap light (the ones with the plastic pills with the “tophat” LEDs), and I ground it down to fit. I then soldered the wires from the driver through the holes, then bent the wires over, so they became the “pads” for the Nichia 119 emitter, which I “reflowed” onto the pads using a hot air gun.

And, then, it lights :)!!

Here’s the white wall beamshot, not great, but the light is pretty bright:

Here are some mods from the past week or so.

Surefire U2 XPH50

Low beam shot

High beam shot, No donut!

Surefire L1 bored body for 17670

Changed L1 from optic to reflector and torch XP-E for throw as requested

Custom glow ring

NovaTac 120T with XM-L2 U4 in copper

This thread is really working, I see many mods passing by.

Nice recovery, ohaya!

@CRX, the Ti has a 12mm lens, but I never saw a 12mm ZWB2 for sale: did you sand a bigger one smaller?

My mod for today: Thorfire TG06, XP-L Hi 3000K 80CRI on Noctigon soldered to pill, BLF A6 driver with 470Ohm bleeder over the C1 and spring replaced by an 1mm thick brass bit, lighted tailcap with three different blue tints, cyan/lightblue/deep blue (very attractive, does not show well on picture). The stock tail-parts were replaced by a small Omten on 16mm board (I re-used it from my X5, with the double spring, disengaged the tail-led), and Pilotdog68’s 6-led dumb lighted tailboard with 3x 5.6kOhm resistors. I used the stock tail retaining ring, but because the tail-assembly is just a bit shorter than stock, I had to put a 1.5mm thick brass washer under it to have it make contact with the body when the tailcap is screwed in.
On high (with dark purple Efest 14500) it puts out 700 lumen at start-up, 600 lumen after 30 seconds (20% less than my X5 with the same led, not really sure why). The led is not perfectly centered (can not adjust it, everything is fixed) but the beam is ok.

It is nice enough to become my EDC for a while :slight_smile: The tail leds are way too bright but I enjoy it too much to change that for the moment.

nitroz,

Wait! Do I see an Ultra battery coming out of that L1?

Yeah i posted more about what i did in your 2mm ZWB2 filter tested thread.

Djozz those blues look very nice. Where did you find all those shades? Adding an LTC to my TG06 is on my to-do list. I hadn’t before because they draw was too much for a 14500 (in my mind) but the new “ring” boards should be perfect.

Today I did my first-ever “resistor mod” on my Thorfire S70. It jumped from 4amps to 9amps at the tail. It’s a real show-stopper now.

I bought a bag with 100 0603 leds ‘blue mix’ from ebay. I had to try every led before use, it was some effort to sort out the ones with the right colour and brightness.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-X-SMD-LED-0603-BLAU-MIX-TURKIS-EISBLAU-STAHLBLAU-TIEFBLAU-blue-colour-mix-/371514465251?hash=item567ffcdbe3:g:0hkAAOSwNyFWeS3T

Hahaha Djozz… Click your link

Lmao.

Nice pics btw… I really need to get a few of 6x boards. Much better than just 1 or 2 imo.

Lol! Only for fitment. Ultras are junk! I have had them forever and never use them. :slight_smile:

Zebralight SC63w - now with a better grip sleeve (taken from a LuxPro LP290 2xAA light)

Should someone save that as a quote?

I prepped a Maglite 2D for an H22A heatsink, mtg2, and a 5A MTNMAX driver. Changed the stock switch over to negative (thanks OL!). Glued the led on and glued the copper positive contact. Phew that was a lot of work.

Just have to pot and install the driver, solder some wires, and mess with that gigantic spring. I suppose I’ll need some killer 26650… Maybe 32650’s to power this beast.

Made grip ring and installed clip on Convoy M2. Tricked out Red Green style.

Thanks! The really nice thing about these G10s is that they have a forward clicky, which is really handy in a small light…

The images in your G10 post are broken for me. :frowning:

What browser are you using? I just checked after I read your post, and it looks like the images are gone if I use Firefox, but ok if I use Chrome. Looking at View Source, the links to the images are still there in both cases (Firefox and Chrome), so I don’t know why the images are not showing in Firefox.

EDIT: And in IE, the images are broken icons (which is ironic, since I host the images at onedrive).

Oh man, I sure hope this counts as a mod.
It would mean our first real mod.

thanks to Meteor M43 color changing - 14 pics

On the video there you can see first it turns red.
And well we have ths ugly ultrafire with a red bezel.
Who would put a red bezel there? I would have never bought it, a AE seller thought he could send it instead of the one I ordered that he has run out of.

So I removed everything and put it on the gasflame
When the head was red I took it out and continued with the rest.
And when it looked like it would fit nicely with the red head, turned off the fire.

It now looks much better imho and it was a very nice experiment.

The head actually looks little more red then on the pic.
The tube is really, really nice looking shining bronze, REALLY beautifull! (Hope you picked up on the fact that I really like this color ;))

Does anybody now what causes this color change?
Time, well but does that
A- mean it gets hotter
B- at a certain temp the change starts and progresses till temp is lowered

A meaning with controlled temp the nice bronze color could be achieved without the risk of pushing it beyond towards the beige and even grey (I would love to have the alu X5/X6 in this shiny bronze color, but not in grey.)

The Miller, that is great. Now I gotta go cook a flashlight.

Any idea of the temp the change takes. Wondering if it could be done in OVEN?

If not I am off to the RV

No we were just amazed by the changing color, totally forgot to measure the temp /insert face palm/
I hope somebody knows a little more about this process, I find not a lot googling on the phone now.