Everyone in the first batch should have received a shipping notice from PayPal by now unless you were contacted separately. Please let me know if you didn’t receive anything. I will be dropping off the rest of the lights at the post office today. The first one I shipped looks like it will be arriving by the end of the week, so I’m excited to hear user feedback.
I was able to solve the d-c fix cutting issue by making my own part to hold the compass needle from acrylic along with some high friction adhesive discs I bought from Lee Valley. Much better than the piece of crap Olfa gives you!
I want to say again how much I appreciate everyone’s patience since the first batch took longer than expected. Most of the extra time was making sure I had all the orders straight, had all the parts I needed, and just developing more consistent processes for modding a bunch of lights rather than working my way through a single one for my personal use. I’m about to order a second batch of SC64cs and I should be able to ship them within a few days of accepting an order.
I just tidied up the OP a lot but left a shadow copy in case anyone wants to see the previous version. I’ve been having issues getting more lights to mod from Zebralight in a timely fashion so I just ordered 5 x SC64c from Amazon that should be here within a few days. I’m in the process of contacting people who have expressed interest in getting one, but please let me know if I miss you.
Edit: Wow, all five lights taken already! I’ll look into getting some more tomorrow so please continue to let me know if you’re interested.
the update for this is that this actually looks like ZL made this as it’s absolutely spot-on. does not look touched.
looks and feels just like it should be and the mod work is exquisitely professional.
the 4K 9080 is amazing in this little thing.
ZL need to learn from this.
I was supposed to be finishing and shipping these four lights yesterday followed by three more today, but instead I’ve spent the last 24 hours asleep in bed and unable to sit up because of fatigue and aches. Get your flu shots, people
Back in the land of the living for the most part. My dog was so concerned he snuck upstairs and broke into my bedroom to sleep beside me! I should have those four lights done today (Thursday) and the rest done over the weekend. My sincere apologies to the couple people who I promised I’d ship to earlier this week.
Theoretically any of the XP-L2 lights should be moddable this way. So far I’ve only tried the SC64c because it’s the only 18650 model. The AA XP-L2 straight lights are basically the same design but smaller. The AA headlamps use a different bezel which might not work as well for the method I use to open the light, but I haven’t seen one in person. You can always do a “smash and grab” to pull the bezel out from behind and hide any damage, but then you need an appropriate replacement lens.
Unfortunately Zebralight’s 18650 headlamps are all XHP and are mostly limited to the same type of LED already installed. The last generation high CRI models use XM-L2 EasyWhite which has the same issue. You have to go back to 2011 or earlier to find a model that would accept a 219B.
