I decided I have too many black lights. In addition, my Sofirn SP70 is too similar to my Convoy L6 - and they’re both black.
So, I figured I’d bake the SP70. I had to disassemble it some for the driver swap I’m doing soon (MTNE order shipped today!). I was going to pull the tail switch for a bypass (and maybe Blue springs, too) as well. So really the only additional step I took was picking off the O-rings and stripping the lube off the threads.
Prep:
You may notice something I forgot: The head is assembled from two pieces. (I tried later and can’t separate them anyway, but some sort of residue bubbled out from the crack a bit during baking).
After the first round, which was a while at 550F on the “bake” setting on my oven.
I decided I wasn’t happy with how dark the tube stayed. Unless a flashlight with HCRI was shining right on it, it was hard to tell the difference even side-by-side with a black flashlight.
So I baked it again - this time I put it in the oven before preheating, and set it to 550F on convection bake.
It came out nicer, and I couldn’t be more pleased:
Finished product under 4000K SST20 (plus cat tax):
I was expecting the whole thing to turn somewhere in the brown to sand color range, but I really like the green, too. (Looks a lot like Sofirn’s green mentioned in freeme’s EC03 group buy thread ). It’s also just that much better that the colors happened to alternate.
Oh, you monster. I didn’t have to know there were purple and pink versions up there… My wallet really didn’t need to know.
P.S. I’m trying to get better at remembering to take pics of my mods, so hopefully some recent posts have been more fun to see than my typical walls of text.