Today I got my OL Prize bundle, big thanks to PP who supplied me one of his own lights, and very kindly did the proper customs sheet and I didn’t get charged a penny.
I was SO excited opening it I can’t tell you! 
Thank you again PP, you are one in a million mate 
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Ohhhhh……Nice!!! (green with envy)
Congrats goose , that looks really cool
The Two Sun somehow reminds me of the Buck Vantage Avid knives, nice shape.
Today I got a 1955 Leitz Ortholux with double lamps, for transmission and epi-illumination, including the Ultropak attachment for the epi-illumination with 11x objective. All in fine shape, well preserved and working well. I bought it via Marktplaats, which is a friendly dutch version of ebay.
It is because my other hobby is collecting cool microscopes. And although I like the antique copper microscopes, I have a few nice ones, nothing compares to what they made in Germany in the fifties and sixties. The Ortholux is IMO the 
-est microscope ever built, but thusfar missing in my line-up. Apart from the fact that it is mechanics at its finest, no plastic is found anywhere and all the mechanics still work without play after 65 years, it is not just function, it has a really cool fifties design, and it is a huge plump black thing 
I’ll admit I haven’t seen anything like it. Pretty cool indeed!
These seems to be expensive items. Do you collect them or use them professionally?
I collect them. I did work as a technician in a microscopy development lab for 10 years (for who is into these things, the first working confocal microscope was invented by my boss where I worked), but that was over 20 years ago. I paid 400 euro for this Leitz, which is not that much more expensive than the GT4 that I also own 
. But microscopes are too big to buy at the same rate as flashlights, given our small Amsterdam appartment, and the “limited :innocent: ” enthousiasm of my wife for my hobbies, I get away with a max of one microscope every two years. And I might have to sell one or two now to make room for the Ortholux :person_facepalming:
Lol @the limited enthusiasm of your wife for your hobby, i think we have something in common
Interesting stuff btw, microscopy
My new beemer after the wife wrote the last one off
Nice!
Thanks :+1: will be even nicer when those wheels are black and a black front grille set 
better wait a while for that though lol, today was an expensive yet very enjoyable day!
How do you plan on making the wheels black? Paint, powder coating, or new wheels? I’m thinking about using this company to powder coat my wheels when my tires need to be replaced: Apex Custom Coating.
Powder coat defo, spray paint is nowhere near as resilient, well unless it’s done really well and numerous coats, then lacquered a few times (much like the body lol) . Pretty certain that would end up much more expensive.
Also you have to think of cleaning, likely wheel cleaner may be used on them semi regularly and I’m not sure spray paint likes that quite strong cleaner.
I see spray painting (not a proper job as I describe above) as a quick fix/time to sell on option to tart the wheels up and cover up damage.
New toy flashlight, $60.00 on Amazon. Looking at upgrading the Hologen bulb to a 12K lumen LED automobile light next.
The beam sucks badly new, lol, but that was expected.
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Sunwayman V11r, stock XM-L Cool White
debating whether to mod to
2700k LH351d
or sw45k…
Definitely sliced 2700k lh351d. Can recommend it.
thank for your thoughts
I agree sliced 2700k lh351d is very nice and warm 
glad you enjoy it also
the middle light is the shaved LH351d 2700k:
l-r LH351d 2700k shaved, 219b 4500k, xp-e2 green:
Got my Pioneman K18 and L80 with battery and charger set. Ordered from their offical store in Ali 2 weeks ago.
Just got my first B158B ever in the mail today and I hastily slopped it together with a Osram Black Flat S shorting out (intentionally) and therefor DD through the stock driver and a few bypasses. 319kcd! Not bad for 10minutes of modding.
The light I got from AE and it is a super clean and high quality host. Ano is beautiful with no markings and threads are smooooth. Everything is beefy and the lens was immaculate. Nicely packaged with egg crate foam padding in a sturdy but plain box.
When I get more time I’ll black out the internals, use a proper centering ring, adjust the pill so that 100% zoom is at the end of the travel, and start planning how I’m going to get a DIY collar in there. Pics will follow