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

That is awesome! Kinda’ 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 don’t get this… 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:

I’m sorry. I didn’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 please… 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 mod… Very interesting indeed :+1:

Logo will not vanish, different techniques, I have started a thread on it, they are make with laser engraving and or a special UV paint that gets hard. Complete removal not possible.

This is the first time I use this masking method. Maybe other greasy substances, such as petroleum jelly or lithium grease could be used.

I do not have a fixed proportion in the dilution. I mix a small handful of sodium hydroxide in a liter of water at room temperature and submerge the piece to be treated controlling the time with direct vision. Once I like the result I submerge it in a bucket of water and wash it under the tap.

Please: Always in a ventilated environment and using safety goggles and gloves.

I usually do logos with 150, 220, 400 grit + polishing + nitro matte paint (almost no visible difference from anodizing)

I also tried aluminum Birchwood bluing which works but not at the desired black tone(significantly visually different from anodizing)

And I am considering at using diy sticker with 2 part epoxy as adhesive.

Thanks for the answer.
I asked as I have recently received one of these lights with XHP35 HI and I’m totally underwhelmed with it. Its a nice light but throw which is supposed to be 700 meters is pitiful. The only way it would throw 700 meters is if I threw it over the edge of the Grand Canyon.
From memory it was drawing about 2.5 amps at the tailcap.
Is there a picture of your mod anywhere?

http://www.forolinternas.com/viewtopic.php?p=200051#p200051

Wow’ very nice looking lights guy! :+1:

strip, polished add Maxtoch xm 26mm dd xml2 u4 1a solder MCPCB to the pill.

I like it tim70. :+1:

Thank MRsDNF! :wink: