De-Doming the X6

DENGOH where did you buy it? I bought one about 18 months ago at DX and came in perfect condition, nice colour, the only con is the LED’s current at around 5Amps. The rest was OK.

Will post later as I am contacting the seller to sort it out.
Feels like wasted money and should just get a SR95.

Fine steel wool and spit should clean it right up… not recommended for AR coated lenses.

Yup.

The seller agreed to resend me those parts with light color as the heaviest heatsink has dark color, he will need to find the parts. Let’s see how it turns out. So I won’t publish where I got the X6 at this moment, but remember to ask for good or perfect color match if you purchase X6 next time. Looks like there are some process changed that affected this.

Arghh! Almost did it last night, my pliers are 1mm away from the LED. Still struggling, do I need another thrower that can’t out throw TN31 or TK70? I am afraid it will fail or tint will shift to ugly tint.

Here’s my X6 after DE-Doming it…

Nice!

Do you know the distance to the antenna?

Yep, sorry… It’s 776’ feet 258 yards

Definitely looks more focus than my X6 and tint is still ok to me. Does your X6 out throw TN31 or TK70? I read somewhere but can’t remember clearly that de-domed X6 still can’t out throw them.

No it don’t but it does a pretty good job… Here is a link to the beamshots I did, just scroll down to the pictures.

Where did u guys purchase the x6 at

Here

Or twist then pull up? What’s the purpose of the “twisting” action - seems like it may damage the bond wires?

I’m keen to give this a go but don’t want to destroy my prized possession just right now …

Cheers

I read someone lift the dome up with sharp knife either. Looks like it is not very tightly glued at all.
But I haven’t dedome mine yet. Still waiting for the day it might happen when I suddenly have the urge to do it.

The twisting doesn't hurt the bond wires because they are under a layer of gel or something. A sst-90 is much easier than an XM-L.

Why the big price difference? Are they the same light?

Trustfire X6 SST-90 Luminus LED Flashlight Searchlight
(TX6)
US$159.99 HKEQUIPMENT - 照明及戶外用品

Cool - thanks for the clarification mate!

Cheers

Messin’ around with a fine torch like that. Next thing I’m gonna hear is you’re buying 15 more for spares in case somethin’ goes wrong. :open_mouth:

Rey has the X6’s. See rikr post.

Luminous LED’s in general are a lot easier to de-dome than CREE.Cree uses a stronger adhesive.
SST-90 and 50 LED’s doent require heat IMO.You can but not much fun watching the dome slide off your flashlight
after a ping of your tweezers. XM-L’s , power up your torch and when hot its almost easy to de-dome…not quite…