What you got today

Bloody hell. I’m glad there’s a few thousand miles of ocean between me and that nonsense!

Got to come home with my wife and 2 day old daughter today. That’s what I got.

I also got a bunch of stuff that came while we were at the hospital. A MTNE order, lume1 driver + aux board, new tail switch for my D25C Ti, digikey order…

Congratulations! :+1: :beer:

I got this:

Congrats! Happy moonlight mode years.

Got my XT45 yesterday! It is an impressive flashlight for the price. The light output is great but man does it get hot quickly! it gets hot quicker then my NSX3A! The UI is a bit funny. I keep it on low when off and the next mode after low is high them medium, double tap for turbo then triple for strobe. Its stepping down after 20 seconds. The size is almost identical to my C8+ but a tad shorter. Its much nicer looking then the C8.

WOW :money_mouth_face: :sunglasses:

Beautiful, from where did you get this? Link?

It’s a Sinner Customs light, bought it directly from them. He doesn’t have a site but he has an Instagram.

Nice score!
I’ve been wanted to have one of Sinner’s creation since he was only build a custom host.

Is it the Reylight AAA Ti? :open_mouth:

Yes it is. The Pineapple Ti Mini. Not really a budget light in general but pretty budget for being Ti and small batch. My first Ti light so I am very happy. The Nichia 219B 4500K R9080 high CRI is very nice :slight_smile:

Sandblasted Ti always looks amazing.

Great looking flashlight and LED Bak!

A Sofirn C01R and Convoy C8+. Both are excellent!

A tub of o-ring-friendly silicone grease. Immediately picked up an old toothbrush and went at it on the threads of all my older lights. Convoy S2, Thrunite Ti3, Lumintop Tool, you name it. It’s insane how smooth and nice the threads feel now, some are even smoother than they were out of the box :heart_eyes: No more squeakers either.

Yep, that’s why (as long as I’m motivated enough), I’ll scrub down even “well-lubed threads” and even pull off and clean O-rings and the grooves they sit in, and relube everything from scratch. Buttery smooth…

People forget that even the aforementioned “well-lubed threads” is they they’ve just been machined and anodised, and can have leftover grit, etc. embedded in them and in the lube. And it just wears with each unscrewing/rescrewing. Scrubbing-down and relubing gets rid of it.

That’s why sometimes squeaky unlubed threads can be better, as it forces you to do that (or just live with grindy threads).

+1 to you :+1: Next time I go on a re-lubing spree, I will remove the o-rings to give them a very good slather. The TN12 I gave to my brother sure could use that treatment after more than 5 years of use.