Orange WF-502B?

I love orange. But since I didn't find any orange budget high power lights, I did some anodizing and made one:

Its far from being perfect, but its ok for the first try, and I will try different hosts.

Very nice. How it's done? Over the initial anodizing?

No, I removed the initial anodizing and did the whole process.

I will add some pictures when I do the next run.

Nice work. I've always liked the looks of the 502B and the orange looks really good (except it is the color of my college's arch rival so I would never be caught dead with anything that color).

Beautiful!

DIY anodizing is next on my list of hobbies I want to try.

Go Big Orange!

I love orange, too. So tempted by some DX lights because of the orange but not thrilled by the lights themselves. Please do tell how you got into anodizing. I do gun work, including parkerizing and bluing but don't have anyway to finish aluminum except bake on paint or powder coat...

Great! Very nice work ;)

Please add more photos of the flashlight and of the process.

That's excellent, very nice, I like how you didn't anodize the front surface.

How does one remove an anodized layer?

2% lye

Some guys have used Greased Lightning.

that's funny - when bluing a gun I use toilet bowl cleaner - i think its lye doing the work, i'll check next time I buy some. The gel sticks pretty well so you don't have to immerse it, although the bluing turns to grey steel so fast it almost doesn't matter...

I love the orange ..90% of my lights would be orange if i knew how to ..DIY at home anodizing for dummies

instructions please?

Anyone spray paint their lights. My best mate is a spray painter. I could get any color I wanted

the coolest looking light i've seen. great job! i sure wish they were available like that.

heinzeins, THAT has to go in the glove box of my new 2012, Tangerine Scream, Ford Focus ST!

Yowza!

Aluminum does not like paint much if at all. Chips away easily. Anodizing however likes aluminium very much but as Don pointed out a zillion of times the chemicals involved are quite dangerous and the whole process must be throughly tought before attempting it. Do not ever attempt it indoors.

If i remember properly electricity is involved and sulphuric acid (did i spelled that right? H2SO4 anyway) along with food/clothing dye's for coloring.