It’s gorgeous! The copper quasi fins in the tube giving accent to the copper tail cap and copper fins really ties the light together. That length is great, the porportions just right, and even the clever idea of leaving the copper slightly larger for grip, stop, accent…brilliant!
Amazing work Scott, simply amazing!
Hardly “just another 10440 light” by any means! Brilliant work of art in one-of-a-kind salute to modding.
My hat’s off to you sir! :heart_eyes:
selling any?
RufusBDuck does great work, seeing this one finished makes ya want one, doesn’t it? 
This one is spawned through a conversation we had, and he nailed it! Of course, it’s accounted for. And I love it!
Give him a holler and see if he’s able to create one from your imagination, bet he can! 
Bump. It’s done! :party:
Simply amazing and inspiring craftsmanship! You have outdone youself. :love:
Seriously, this thing is the work off a craftsman or simply someone with too much time on there hands. I cant believe that the battery tube is only 25mm long. Good stuff and congrats on finishing the build. Another member here who is an inspiration to a lot off us. Thanks.
<—-big handshake and a bear hug to Scott
You have outdone yourself on this one! I love that attention to detail, making sure everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING) is as perfect as possible. Batting a 1000 with this one Scott, simply knocking every pitch out of the ballpark!
The extra work on the TIR itself, amazing! Weather sealed perfection. That gives it a truly professional look, as does the centered and perfectly tuned knurling, the copper spacers, matching head and tail and bringing it all together…Wow!
Thank You Very Very Much!
Looks like that copper star fit right in there, sweet! A 300+ lumens dynamo, with a clip!
Your O-L coined title, Master of Minuscule, is very appropriate. Might even have to give you a M³ designation (Master of Modding Minuscule)
Unbelievable. Truly excellent hand work and stunning quality.
Edit: As an aside, it’s not lost on me that it works due to a product made with Texas ingenuity, JB Weld is made in Sulphur Springs TX, Gotta love it! lol Come home to papa my precious lil jewel…
+1 to all the compliments. This is an amazing build. I’m inspired to try the same sort of thing, but it’ll take a bit to work up the courage/time.
It has become a beautiful light, and so many modifications adds to the uniqueness, great work!
And now before posting your next great mod, you are going to work on your photographic skills first (please)! Such great work deserves great documentation as well, at least do it for us . Practice with different camera's (tip: modern phone camera's do a great job at close-ups, or use a close-up lens in front of the camera/phone) and lightning (tip: combine daylight with artificial light for nice clear photo's. Never settle for unsharp pictures, try them again until sharp.
Fooled you Mr Moose, that’s an inch ruler. Battery tube is closer to 60 mm though I haven’t measured it alone.
Thank you JohnnyMac. As one of those responsible for my desire to do mag mods, that means something to me
Thank you Dale. Could you tone it down? My humility is getting hammered by my vanity. Besides, my poor quality cell phone pics aren’t doing the blemishes any justice either.
Do it Ruffles, go, go, go. It’s more tiime consuming and tedious than actually difficult even though there is a large skillset involved and plenty of ways to screw up. I’ve only been modding Maglites for less than a year(a few others but not many).
Djozz, you are quite right. My problem is photobucket is not allowing me access to my account from my laptop which is the only way I have to upload from my canon 540IS which takes decent macros and has a tripod. Even with a cell phone camera I usually take 3-4 images for each shot using different lighting to try an get the best but it was 3am when I finished and I confess I just didn’t care anymore. My bad. To be honest, DBCstm will be giving this light a photoshoot that would make my best efforts with a good camera look weak so check back in a week or two when he’s had a chance to show off his talents.
You little trickster. You know l’ll get you back.
What a beautful build!
You’ll need some Blackbriar meds cause I eats me spinach.
Gee, somebody seems to have given me this little jewel for some testing (hope he doesn’t want it back… :party: ) So, I did a little testing:
high: 261 lumens 5533K
medium: 84 lumens 5530 K 4221 Hz PWM
low 14.8 lumens 5360K 4221 Hz PWM
The driver looks like it is based upon the standard Nanjg firmware with some residual PWM on high…
Then I did some more testing. On high, it gets hot rather fast (10C rise every 90 seconds). Drops are 2 lumens and 10K CCT per minute. Temp rises around 10C every 90 seconds. I stopped testing when it got to 60C.
In the graph, the LUX plot is actually lumens (I’ve been comparing the responses to two different light sensors, the one on the LUX channel is better). The center line of the plots are the values.
Thank you for doing this test. What spot/area is the temp test measuring? The led Sinkpad is only 11mm in Dia and the rest of the copper portion of the pill is a cylinder maybe 7mm long, not much for a 1A led. Is that about 6 1/2 minutes on high to 60 C? The driver was I believe an IO or IS 1.4 A driver(I buy both and can’t tell one from the other) before the 7135’s were removed and replaced with 380 bins.
I don’t think the light will be on high for long as runtime would be only 20 min but I would have liked it to be able to run out the battery. Not this time I guess. Still, decent output for a small light.
Thanks again for the tests. Can we have it back now Puhleease?
The thermocouple was on the copper fins (under a styrofoam packing peanut).
The test started with the thermocouple at around 30C (due to handling it). Room temp was 25C. After 6.5 minutes it hit 60C. So figure 5C per minute rise.
Very nice, excellent work there Texas Pyro! So after only 7 minutes I can reheat my coffee with this pretty little firestick! In 12 minutes it might boil water, naaa, the cell would be too far gone. It’s definately working it’s lil butt off, for sure.
What do you think RBD? Respectable numbers? I think so, 261 is a LOT of light from such a small package, You did good!
TexasPyro, did you run it off of a power supply or a live cell? We planned it out for an Efest IMR 10440, it might very well run out a standard cell without reaching critical heat levels, but of course wouldn’t hit the lumens mark benchmarked here.
Very exciting stuff, Thanks Guys!
I ran it off the cell. It seems to hold regulation quite well, only dropping a couple of lumens per minute.
I doubt I’ll run it more than 5 minutes at a time on high, never can tell what situation will arise but I’d think I have other options for the occasions that much time is needed. Most likely Hi won’t get used but a couple minutes at a time, if that.
Sure nice to know what the levels are though, and I thank you again for that information!
Incredible performance for such a little beast! 6.5 minutes seems good to me for reaching 60 celcius considering how little mass it actually has. I have big lights that get hotter in less time. Heck, my Micromags don't shed heat that well.
RDB, you, sir, are a craftsman!