Photos of your lights strip, polished, baked, or whatever you thinks it look good!

Those polished lights look fantastic. How long does it take get them like that, and what polish do you use?

Iā€™m considering stripping an S2+ host, but I may be too lazy to put the effort in :stuck_out_tongue:

Thank Erethryn, I use Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish I have to polished a couple time.

I love the uniform color you baked into this X6 :+1: looks really really nice, can you share the details on what you did to achieve that nice color, oven temp, time, prep, etc.

If you ever want to sell it let me knowā€¦ :wink:

Here are some oldies I had a while backā€¦


This thread is interesting but also reminds me that there are different tastes than mine. I really like quality aluminum anodizing on aluminum lights. Polishing on copper and steel lights.
But other methods like cerakote, tenifere or unique approach of artistic airbrushing could really add final touch to a modder light.

Nice :+1:

Thank AlexGT, I took all out apart baked 550F 30min or less keep on checking 10min or so, see the color that you want and take out the one you think is done maybe leave it longer some. The key is your eye :cowboy_hat_face: That light you have is beautiful! :+1:

First one Iā€™ve done, I blowtorched an inexpensive LuxPro zoomie that I got a while ago from Loweā€™s. It came out how I wanted with a gradient from burnt orange to black. Next up is a driver swap and possibly putting in a TIR lens instead of the aspheric.

Look good! :smiley:

Selective masking with silicone thread lubricant.

That is awesome! Kindaā€™ reminds me of urban camouflage.

Hey lads this is a stainless steel host from Kaidomain i sanded of the coating and polished it shiny. The light its self is standard set up 3amp Nanjg driver with a high CRI XPG2 on Noctigon board.

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I donā€™t get thisā€¦ Silicone thread lubricant? How in a earth does that can take anodizing off if it is used for lubricating threads?

Q8 proto to see what is possible
The grey tailcap is so nice, think I will do the rest like that too when the real Q8 is in :wink:

I love the look you have created. What led is in the light and do you like the light overall?

Hi all, how do you strip anodisation? Anyone uses sodium hydroxide?

Natural, worn-out look of my first EDC that was gifted to me:

Iā€™m sorry. I didnā€™t explain.

The black areas were masked with silicone lubricant before immersion in sodium hydroxide.

Led is original NW XHP 35. I modified the driver using an R100 and now I get 144 KCd (749m) reading 3,85A at the tail.

I really love this flashlight for its balance between throwing, size and runtime.

This is very intriguing to me :slight_smile:

So if I want to take anodization off certain part of the flashlight I just use silicone grease (or please recommend proper adhesive) and then I apply it to every part except the one I want to remove (like anodized part with Chinglish logo on flashlight) and then I throw it to sodium hydroxide bath?

Lfatman pretty pleaseā€¦ Does in your experience such procedure removes logo from aluminum, and how long it got to be immersed and what would be proper mix?

I never seen such modā€¦ Very interesting indeed :+1: