Bonza mod Dale.
Thanks for the pics. 
Thanks Steve, haven’t worked on the lathe much lately. Most of the random pieces of bar stock I have were too small to make the sink, so I had to use a big bar of 3” 6061. First I had to cut off a chunk with a bandsaw then true up the bandsaw cut and only Then start reducing the diameter to match the light. All for a 9mm thick disc. So I didn’t thread the head for this, merely machined 9mm into it so there would be a stop. Wouldn’t you know that I then took that last couple of thou too much off so even though its a snug fit, machining the disc in the lights head to get a flat surface matching the shelf… it spun. The littlest of things can become so difficult!
Got it done, was forced once again to get a little creative, worked out in the end. 
I here ya. 
Of course, I stood in front of the lathe in my Teva sandals with the thermometer on the wall a few feet away showing 37 degrees Fahrenheit… glutton for punishment! That big 3” bar was COLD! It had been 25 degrees at sunrise just a couple of hours before I went out to the shop.
I HATE cold weather!
5 degrees here this morn, 10 degrees right now, brutal winds today, they say up to 50 MPH, almost lost our new gazebo. Coldest in a while, maybe couple years.
Yeah, well, you can just keep that nastiness over there with you! It was in the 60’s today and that’s fine with me… lol
My health suffers more in cold, I get a chill and it’s torture for this ol boy, literally, like being hooked up to invisible defib paddles. So yeah, warm weather can’t get here soon enough!
(They call it Conversion Disorder, like a fight or flight reflex to stress… emotional or physical the result is the same, horrific muscle spasms. 20 years of it now. I do heat SO much better.)
Made my SD10 BLF edition into a true BLF light.
Built a 22mm TA driver, stacked it onto the stripped factory board, flashed it with Anduril and wired it all up. Yes the driver has some extra solder, I hand soldered it with a large chisel tip just to see if I could (I usually use hot air).
Looks like you been busy
This is what I did back in 2016, but it's been on my long list for more mod upgrading to a better driver, better LED. As you can see, I wired up the switch LED as well, running an early version of Narsil.
I've been using an old TrustFire 32650 6000 mAh in mine with the protection circuit removed - works great, low resistance after removing the PC.
Lol dang, I was gonna make a direct fit driver but I figured no one else would ever possible use one. I was just gonna size the SP33 driver up and adjust the switch board location, probably would of been less physical work than this way…
Did you put then spring back and ground yours the way it came or delete the ground wire / screw / little spring? I deleted all that crap on mine, Idk why it was there in the first place, this light doesn’t have ground path issues or anything (it’s actually surprisingly good considering the drop-in pill design).
Funny story, I forgot the factory board wasn’t DTP so when I first fired it up the factory XM-L2 (which I kept cause I really liked the tint in ended up after gas dedoming) it went blue instantly, talk about an interesting smell (didn’t realize an LED going blue made a smell lol). Took it back apart and put it back together with an XP-L HI for now, I’m thinking it’s gonna get a NW HCRI SST-20 before it’s done. Also having some intermediate aux LED issue, like you I picked a random pad to put a resistor on and air wired it, probably got a bad joint or something so it will need to coma back apart sometime before I can really call it done.
Here’s how I did my connections
Edit: oh man, post # 3535!
Ohhh, pretty sure I kept the spring, screw, etc. -- pretty sure, been a while, March 2016 I did the mod. Kind of messy light to mod for sure but the 32650, if you got one, is what makes it unique, but also makes a nice compact 26650 light.
i modded the battery springs to one of these a couple nights ago
re-vampted the springs, simply place a battery the wrong way round to get nearly 1.2 lum’s in the glow from the springs, also added a hum to the stepless ramp mode. missed the vidio sorry guys.
ermmmm… dohhhhh!
Happens to the best of us 
Not that I am 
Same happened to me 2 weeks ago. Tried to check the tailswitch light of one of my lights with an 18650.
Had the switch been open, the light would go on. But the switch was closed and I melted the spring(s).
ahhh yes but getting the added whineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee lol
Hmm, you guys make me think about modding my old BLF SD10. It still is a nice clean design. And there’s Soshine 32650 batteries around now (this link has a feedback that measures that in a Opus charger) that measure 7000mAh and probably perform better than the old Trustfires.
I finally received a couple of Convoy S2+ 18350 tubes that I ordered. It turns them into an even more compact EDC and my Luxeon V triple still draws 14 amps from the very impressive Keeppower 18350, making it ridiculously bright for its size.
I like the bolt action.
i like the shiney brass
Like it. I want to know how he did it. That must be so small. I smell an alien here or alien technology.