Making a cutdown 1D Mag-lite LOTS-O-PICS !

Reserved

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Oh just wait until you see what is to come! The threading is pure excellence!

Stradivarius. He kinda makes me sick. :weary: :smiley:

Updated with threading pics.

Very nice can’t wait to get a bigger lathe :slight_smile:

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wow, you have a really neat work bench! Nice work on the body too, I wish I could cut threads on my lathe, it’d make a lot of projects simpler.

Nice! What's the plan for a switch? Tailcap switch? Or a twist the head / tail?

-Garry

Thanks for the kind words, guys ! There are seven machining operations required to make this host, and a few more to finish a complete light.

This one will get a tailcap switch.

Finally, folks, you now have a real life source (right here in BLF), for cut down Maglite hosts!!! I have been waiting for this for many moons. I thought it would never come! As you can see, the man does excellent work and is meticulous in his methods.

It's good to see that BLF now has a way to get 1D hosts for their modding. Believe me (since I know about this stuff a little bit), it is well worth going to Chi-X and asking him to make you a host like this instead of trying to make one yourself. I have made enough myself, to know the extensive learning curve and one made like this will always be 10 times better than hand made! Believe it!

Thanks Chi-X for doing such a good photo show and tell.

I do worry though, when a big guy like you comes around wearing rubber gloves.Surprised

Nice work chi-x, there’s no dust collecting on THAT lathe, that’s for sure. 8)

I'm excited to see what kind of switch you go with.

I believe I paid something like $30 or $40 to have a Mag cut down and rethreaded. I thought that was a lot at the time, but I've realized it's going to take me a lot of time and patience to do that on the lathe myself.

I shook his hand, so I agree completely :)

Outstanding job on the machining, specifically the threads both inside and out. Have the guts picked out for this one yet?

Anyone else think this -

"Two by two, hands of blue..."

Nice job Chicago X. Old-Lumens sprang to mind when I started reading this and yep there he was. Are you happy with the new purchase? (The lathe).

thats nice… i like how you saved the knurling on it the way you did. only thing i would have done different (no lathe and no skill with one, so no room to talk really :stuck_out_tongue: ) is save the side switch… but im sure whatever you have in store is going to be amazing

also, now that i think of it… if you did save the side switch, you wouldnt have been able to keep the knurling the way you did, so i guess its a catch 22 on that one

The 1D can be done with or without the side switch. The overall length changes since the switch stays, but it can still be done. The knurling can still be there, but it would not be as balanced as it is this way. It is, as they say, "doable". The OAL of the knurled section is (if memory serves), about 75mm, which works out ok, for either a 3 or 4AA holder or a 26650. The space between the knurl and the switch is (about 20mm??), so it would mean cutting right at the back end of the knurl, for proper OAL with a Std tail cap (which is about 40mm deep with spring compression). I've slept since then, so I may be wrong.Wink

He’s wearing gloves? I just assumed he dropped his wallet or something in a port-o-potty and had to fish it out with his hand. :~

Of course, people are noticing just how many Maglites are standing in the background, in that "hand photo". Looks like he's got a good start on a run of them.Wink