What did you mod today?

Nicely done robo, great way to condense the collection while still keeping every one of them readily available!

Might have to start thinking about a “flash cabinet” in red cedar. :wink:

Thanks Dale.

The red cedar is my all time favorite wood I think. Love the smell of raw Cedar and when you put a coat of Polyurethane on the outside of a piece it just really makes it pop.

If I can reign in my flashlight spending habit, I might have to commission you to build me a corner cabinet with the Cedar, glass inserts in the face (door) and a light inside with maybe mirror panels in the corner sides to reflect light and show the lights in a 3D perspective. That’d be cool, brass knobs on the door and brass hinges on the red wood. Dang, what am I talking myself into here?!!!

haha……what are you talking US into?

I am sure it could be done though……just have to get me some more cedar here to start drying good before I try to make something like that. I would hate to put it together and then have something crack 6 months or a year down the road from the wood drying out.

Robo, do you or does anyone watching here know if the blue bezel on an Olight S1A unscrews or is it a press fit?

I got a beautiful little solid copper S1A with Rose Gold PVD coating and they put a cool white XM-L2 in it, coming through the TIR it’s got a slight green tint. I’d like to put an XP-L V6 3D in it. Don’t want to mess up the gorgeous finish though, so I thought I’d ask first…

It is probably same fitment as the S1 Baton and S-Mini, on those lights the bezel is press fit.

:person_facepalming:

I thought it might the case, thanks Bobby. Not really what I wanted to hear but I guess that’s better than threaded and glued tight as a tick on a hound dog.

Now I have to decide if the color is off enough to make me attack this gorgeous light…

It is doable without damaging anything, at least i successfully opened my S1 Baton and S-mini, the S-mini was rose gold version and it did not have single scratch after my work to it.

There is video from a BLF member Thomas X3 on youtube on how to remove the bezel without doing damage to the light.

Here is the video

Nice mod on a few chunks of wood robo. :+1:

Definitely, and thanks for linking my personal YouTube channel :slight_smile:

Success! :slight_smile:

I used a tough little knife, Buck Strider Mini, and worked around til the bezel was loose enough to remove. Filed down a 16mm Noctigon til it fit in place of the stock aluminum mcpcb, then used a 365nm UV light to locate a preferred XM-L2 tint in my bins… as it so turned out I removed one of the 4 XM-L2 U2’s that came in my Nitecore TM16 (it has XHP-35’s now)

Thinned the Noctigon a bit to match the stock thickness, leaving it a hair tall…. bezel and TIR went back in nicely and it now has a near perfect neutral tint, probably a 1D to make a guess at it (Nitecore doesn’t specify tint bin)

My mom’s pearl white Buick LaCrosse looks splendid in the light from this S1A now so I’m happy with it.

No scratches, no gap, looks stock but has the nicer tint. A win for sure. Thanks for clearing up the style of bezel for me, appreciate it. :smiley:

Beam before modification… the plant light is a Cree COB rated at 93CRI for comparison sakes…

The solid copper S1A in Rose Gold PVA…after the mod…

And the beam after the mod, much nicer color! The picture on the wall is a 16x20 canvas of my son when he was little.

The ceiling tiles, for white balance perception, are white styrofoam. :wink:

I have an Astrolux SC that really like but was not using it because is to heavy for my taste, so modded with a xhp-70.2 NW from KD, a MTN Fet driver and two windyfire 14500 IMR.
Cut the threads from the tailcap and soldered two pieces of copper plumbing tube. Inner/outer diamenter and lenth are perfect fit, just plug and solder.
8.7A startup and 3.4A at 30sec nearly burning hot.


Soldering: phone camera show pink but it was really red.

Final result: love the burned look.

That is one extreme mod A380. I also like the real rustic look of it. Nice work. :beer:

Looks like a really nice piece of junk. :smiley:
Nobody will ever think to steal it.

Cool job! :+1:

Nice job A380.
And once you start using it parts will become shiny again from wear, adding to the character!

Thanks!

Djozz, it’s more heavy t’han before, so don’t think I’m going to use much more. :wink:

Dale, can you please tell the diameter of the LED plate? Or, if you can’t say that, can you tell me what diameter the flashlight take (14mm or 16 mm)?
Thank you in advance :wink:

I think it was a 14mm MCPCB, I’ll measure it here directly and let you know. Took a good bit of filing on a 16mm Noctigon. Had to thin the Noctigon down some too.

Measured, yes it’s 14mm.

Thank you Dale :wink: I thought it would be 14mm too, but couldn’t be sure! These are only measurements for a future mod :wink:
Thanks :+1:

EDIT: Thanks for the confirmation Dale :smiley:

Manker U11 18650

NarsilM V1.0 3C1S

L6 Switch PCB

Blue LED

Moon

10K Very nice