FINISHED!! My Big Build of the season, The 3 Green Maglites "Listen while I play my Green Tambourine" FINISHED!!

Old-Lumens "OK, you now know for sure that I'm going over the edge, rather quickly, so I will get to the Modding."

If this is going over the edge I cant wait. I just got the best of Cream. My 19 year old son likes the plain button and when asked why he thought the colored one looked a bit girly. Maybe I'm girly but I like both. I'm looking forward to the comparison of the two different TIR optics.

I like the plain button more than the abalone shell.

I think for the 1D you should go for an xpg-2 in an aspheric! Or even in a reflector it would still have some sick throw to it.

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Old-Lumens “OK, you now know for sure that I’m going over the edge, rather quickly, so I will get to the Modding.”

If this is going over the edge I cant wait. I just got the best of Cream. My 19 year old son likes the plain button and when asked why he thought the colored one looked a bit girly. Maybe I’m girly but I like both. I’m looking forward to the comparison of the two different TIR optics.

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Off topic but you have to get the Cream reunion from 2005, “Cream live at Royal Albert Hall”, Bluray or DVD. I am so glad they got back together for a few nights to do this.

Abalone

plain :slight_smile:

the abalone clashes with the green to me. Does remind me of some paua jewelry I made for my wife years and years ago though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQKweeTHZu0&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_0WaW5YWFs&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/user/OldLumens/videos

A rotary tool is just about a necessity to do it the way that is shown above.

Ya, it does clash with the green. I like the plain too. The shell would be good on black.

Use a cabochon emerald for the button…

The 2AA will become a single 14500 light and the 2AAA will become a single 10440 light. EDIT: 10/19 I can see major issues with making the AA and AAA into single cell. The wall thickness is terriblely thin, so I am going to leave them 2AA ans 2AAA. If someone wants to use Li-ion, I can always make a dummy cell for them. Also, I imagine I will just use a TIR optic in the AAA instead of an aspheric. The problem is with using the tail cap as the on/off. The tail cap threads inside the body are not anodized well enough and just screwing the tail cap on, would make contact in the threads, so there would not be any off, till the tail cap was taken out. That's no good, so I will leave it as a TIR and use the head for on/off, like I always do.

New ideas are great, but they don't always work out...

The tailcap wouldn't work? It works fine on mine...

Nope, I tested it. I think the quality of the Maglites is slipping. I have noticed this in the newer lights I am getting. They have more minor defects in them. I see both visual and functional. I would bet it’s because of having to reduce the labor force there, which they have been doing. Threads are not as smooth, anodizing is more patchy, little marks that shouldn’t be there, due to improper cleaning before anodizing, etc. I have noticed lots of that kind of thing, but I inspect them harder than most probably do, so I see more. Their quality has slipped some and that’s expected and sad too.

Thank you, very interesting videos :slight_smile:

I’ve wanted a Green Mag since I was a little kid. Never have got one. You don’t see any of the cool colours in Canada on the shelves. Spoesin now I could just buy one online.

I like the Nickel button better as well.

Thanks for these threads they are very inspiring! Where did you get the reflector for the D mag?

Green is hard to find. Zbattery is where I found these three.

CNQualityGoods CNQG. They have two that can be used for maglites, but they both require “massaging”, to fit. Material has to be taken off the reflector OD or the head ID.

Really? Definitely troubling if your word is to be believed (it is). The hardware store that I buy hosts from has no stock newer than Jan. 2009. How recent is this phenomenon?

Loved that slick Blue Brothers build you did last (or earlier this?) year. You can make that 1AAA size direct drive Nichia aspheric with a green Solitaire—the 2AAA Minimag head screws on to a Solitaire without any fuss. Grinding off threads from the 2AAA body should allow the Soli head to screw far enough on the 2AAA to cover the o-ring. Voilà, instant (<— as if) 2AAA penlight and a tiny 1AAA Nichia aspheric for a green quartet

edit: make that another vote for the nickel button

Slim, I just tested a 2AAA head on a solitaire and it did not screw onto it.

Thank you Scaru for checking that. The threads don’t engage any whatsoever? :~
I have an incan Soli whose head can screw a little ways onto my Mini Mag_LED_ 2AAA (purchased in August). I swapped heads and the Soli head didn’t make it to the o-ring cuz the head wasn’t long enough, IIRC. I assumed that would work with the incan 2AAA.

Edit- apparently I had issues comprehending what I read last night, meant to clarify that the MiniMag AAA LED head threads onto an incandescent Soli no problem.

Nope, it just slips right over the whole thing.