…pushing past the above and entering uncharted areas of ignorance (on my part)…are there ever enough threads on these unprotected lights to simply grab a few when inserting a protected cell (not fully tightened)…while then reaching for my favorite ‘fix’ this side of tie wire…Gorilla tape?
I could care less what a light looks like if it works with a protected battery.
Giorgos, I think what Freedom is asking is if there are enough threads where you screw the tail, so that if he doesn’t screw it totally (to the end) he can use a 14500 protected battery (like the XTAR 14500). Leaving the tail a little bit up (not totally screwed), the protected 14500 might fit.
Understood and thanks for sharing (again), George.
The previous poster seems to be disputing your claim (which I have a hard time believing given that you have the exact same cell) and I’m asking whether a similarly/comparatively shorter protected cell would work if it was jerry-rigged/held on with but a few threads engaged and some quality tape applied to hold it there.
Do I like operating in that matter? No.
Do I shy away from unprotected battery powered lights with LVP circuits which don’t shut off (yes).
I am still excited to receive this light. I also figured that I would receive quite a bit of pushback from even ‘suggesting’ that it could be made to work with a protected cell (safely)…which it probably can’t be (or perhaps tint snobbery extends to overall appearance as well for hard core aficionados).
…so here comes the “there’s-gotta-be-a-way” guy in me:
What if you taped/somehow protected the spring and sand-blasted the threads?
Would the light light turn on (soon enough) as some of my other lights do (I always just assumed that their threads were anodized as well) or at some point in time before the two pieces are threaded together?
Then again, perhaps hard anodizing is just that on such a thin piece of metal (thread) and not practically ‘micro-sandable’…
…so here comes the “there’s-gotta-be-a-way” guy in me (sorry) :
What if you taped/somehow protected the spring and sand-blasted the threads?
Would the light light turn on (soon enough) as some of my other lights do (I always just assumed that their threads were anodized) or at some point in time before the two pieces are threaded together?
Then again, perhaps hard anodizing is just that on such a thin piece of metal (thread) and not practically ‘micro-sandable’…