A Perfect Dedome?

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Just tried luminarium iaculator’s metode with nitro paint thinner with two XM-L2 CW is works great :

Thank you so much for sharing this :+1:

This is proper result of my method :+1:

Thanks… :beer:

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Another tip… Don’t go to close with compressor air gun when blowing out remaining silicone. Strong compressor could be to much for that tiny wires. Use it at least 20-30 cm above led and if you can aim minus toward plus size of emitter (so all junk will fell over + wires in single blow).

What about the tint?


X6 XM-L2 CW DD

There is a bit of green on the very low modes but overall considering it started out as a unspecified XM-L2 CW with a blue tint, I would call the DD tint white.

Nice job khas!

Do you have a link to the thinner you used? Hopefully I can get it shipped to Sweden!

Never mind. I saw that you bought it in Italy…

I have been trying to find nitro thinner in sweden but cant seem to find any…

Sledgestone if you are more successful please share your findings :slight_smile:

I’ll try to find some. There might be some at a local paint shop.

That dedome and beam tint look really good khas! Congrats :beer:

Has anyone found that nitro solution in the USA? Care to share the link?

After reading about the nitro thinner, since I had some laying around, I decided to try dedoming an xhp50.2 that I plan to put in a convoy L2. The results were better than I expected: in ~10 minutes the dome came off without leaving much residue (but it took a bit of phosphor with it) and while I haven’t tried it in a flashlight yet, the tint seems to have changed very little (this was a 3A) and the infamous yellow tint shift seems to be less evident than before. Though I’m not sure why that happened, I think it may be because of the thickness of the phosphor layer on the sides being reduced by the phosphor lost during the process.


I made some progress. Found this in Sweden.
http://www.lackbutiken.com/sv/hem/ppg-billack/tvatt/max-meyer-nitro-fortunning-1-liter—pid50.html

Didn’t find a data sheet though, but I’m pretty sure that it’s the same. Only thing missing is the Antinebbia part. Anyone know what it means?

My best guess is that Antinebbia means “No fog”

I found this in the USA but not sure how much it costs or if it would work like luminarium iaculator has posted

The only places in the US that might carry it are

And a hobby nitro thinner that might also work is this one

https://www.ebay.com/i/121780765176?chn=ps&dispItem=1

Hm, no fog? Not exactly sure what fog means in this situation…

Guys,

When you de doming of hard core emitters you can leave them even more than 15 minutes in boiling thinner. When dome fells(and that happens very soon) it does not necessarily means that other silicone bits on emitter will fall they need to be cooked bit longer.

So don’t watch guys. Stick to my instructions and click stopwatch. But even 1 or more hour of cooking can’t destroy phosphor.
Nitro thinner sounds mean but it is not. If it is skin friendly so it should be phosphor friendly.

And one thing I can’t believe. That there are no paint thinners on some markets? Guys what do you use for thinning a paint before coloring something? With which solvent do you clean your painting tools, and even your skin after painting with color for metal surfaces?

Anyone dedome any XPL V6 1As recently? For me most of these emitters do not dedome easily using hot gas method. There remains a layer/chunk of silicone that is well attached to the phosphor. I end up having to carefully scrape this away and it’s not clean.

Hi, I made a dedom with thiner for polyurethane paints, with temperature in hot water, no flame, 30 minutes, but there were traces that I had to clean carefully, the result of the dye is just as thin in xpg2 s42b, greetings !!

Would you say that the tint in your LED shifted from 2B to 2T or 3S ? Did you use the Nitro Thinner?

Hi, if you use nitro thinner, or similar, it is thinner polyurethane based paints, difficult to determine, compared to convoy L6 N2-3A, it is greener and is a warm green, so I would say that between 3B-3S-3T, for My vision and use outdoors, it is quite pleasant, good depth, greetings!

The safety data sheet for this one can be found here. (MSDS)

The ingredients are listed; mostly toluene and acetone.

Googling for some of this stuff, and the prices vary enormously.
Makes me wonder if there are different kinds of this stuff.