Lightly filing around the edge at a 45-degree angle doesn’t do the trick?
You know… I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t even try a hand file. :–5 I was using a dremel and trying to clean it up with a utility knife. I imagine my difficulties are a result of my methods. I had such a hard time with the first two I did that I mentally gave up on trying to find a better method. I’ll give the hand file a try on the next one.
any news?
MG and nofearek9’s gaskets have shipped. 
I closed the sale because I need to put all of my spare time into superior product offerings… starting with a run of copper S2+, C8, and D01 heatsinks. I’m running some now.
Edit: took three tries and I had to edit the machine post parameters to smooth out the thread interpolation but it’s looking pretty good now.
those look great ,send you a pm.
Darn, missed that this was closing… Could have used some of the xp-xm adapters and maybe some of the S2 adapters.
That Copper machine work looks so smooth hoop. The thread start without a bur, orsm.
I dont know how you do it.
Since I closed the sale there has been a surge of interest, which is pretty motivating. I was not expecting that. I’ll leave it open and just do them when I can. It takes about 3-4 hours to do a batch but it’s worth it if there’s several people wanting gaskets.
Thanks MRsDNF. That’s a big compliment coming from you. I’ve seen some of your work!
It may not be as big a complement coming from me, but I also think that your work looks great! 
I’m glad you re-opened sales of the gaskets on a “produce when I can” basis.
Thanks wight! I try to make my parts as pretty as I reasonably can. It is the little details that the average person wouldn’t even notice, but a machinist might, that make parts great instead of just good. I was taught this by an old hand when I first started out.
Hmm… Four screws or two screws for hexagonal stars on the C8 heatsink? No reason not to put four on there I think. (the tooling marks are purely “visual,” by the way. It’s flat and smooth in the pocket.)
Edit: two screws is fine for 20mm noctigons. I’ll roll with that.
I've been dealing with Hoop for a while now and I can say that he has always done great work and has been great to work with. 
Thanks RMM. 
Well, I ended up having to redesign my S2+ pill and completely change up the machining strategy but I am quite happy with the result…. 12 hours later:
Next I’ve got to finish the 2nd ops of the Convoy C8 pills… Then onto the Courui D01 pills…. Then probably I should release my pride and joy, the expanding “Octosink” for D mags…
Hi Hoop,
Could I please place an order for the following:
10 of Kenji’s (post #58) XM - XP adapters
5 of S2+ XP / Nichia
10 of custom sized XM to XP… Base OD = 10mm, Base Height = 0.8mm, Inner Centering Ring OD = 9mm, Inner Centering Ring Height = 0.8mm, to suit a square XP footprint.
This but with an XP square opening…
Also I would love to get a couple of copper pills if you do a run to suit the XinTD C8 and the D mag heatsink sounds interesting and is probably something I would be keen for.
Expanding Octosink? Is that part of the mystery MAG “D” package you talked about September 2014 that you were developing? From your thread asking for MAG “D” interior dimensions (Post #17):
Yes, that’s the one, though I have designed some six types of mag heatsinks, several of which expand, but the octosink is the coolest so the choice is clear. Some of my prototypes are over two years old… 
There is kind of a big leap… at least it feels that way for me, to go from prototype to product. I think of old products whose designs have not changed in years or decades, and I think about the level of quality I would have to achieve up front to meet that goal; to meet very high standards and not regret a single aspect of the design.
And with the way a “mag kit” is, being so many products all at once, and wanting to offer different versions of it and have everything work together from the beginning… Some things I just don’t have worked out yet, and some things require $$$ investments which I haven’t been itching to make. I will never release my products if I continue down this road, and this would be more than a shame. It feels like a betrayal to my own talent…
I think the thing to do… is make for sale the heatsinks first. The mag heatsink will need to come with reflector choices but I do have that more or less worked out. There are many options and the reflector I’d like to use currently requires a minimum order of 100 but it’s not worth stopping the show over. After the heatsinks I will release battery carriers and other battery related products such as fully adjustable charging cradles that use jumpers to switch from series to parallel configuration. There will be some surprises…
Absolutely LSX. I will get them in the queue and model up that gasket here soon.
Hi Hoop,
I was just wandering if you have played with the focus height of the XPL-HI at all yet? Since the emitter sits on a higher platform than XML2 or XPG2 I’ve noticed better results with a taller idolator.
I was thinking about having some made that are a round hole in the center for XPL, with a thickness of about 0.048”. Probly with a reflector centering ring for the S2+ size reflector opening.
Interested to hear your thoughts.
Hey Vestureofblood,
No I haven’t, but I do have it in mind to build an adjustable testing jig for this purpose. So far this service has put that task in the hands of the user, and barring any testing, the easiest thing to do is just use the thickness of the stock gasket. Of course there is likely a difference in optimal thickness between domed and de-domed leds, as we’ve seen from some of the threads that have measured exactly this.
Without a fancy testing jig, I would recommend stacking shims cut from paper until the optimal height were found, as indicated by a lux meter. Regular printing paper typically has a thickness of .003” per sheet. This should be an accurate enough increment.
I actually got a huge gain in lux and a significant gain in beam quality just by adding the difference in height of the XPL platform vs the XML I cant remember off the top of my head what it was but I think it was around 0.025” Thus my mention of 0.048 being a good number.
There are a couple gaskets I have found that will work if you flip them upside down or some similar trick, but none are perfect. Either they dont center the reflector or the height is not exact etc.
I am thinking about maybe having some like this made accept with the height change.
What I am wandering is will there be wide scale potential on this? 2 bucks each is an amazing price for a fully custom part at 1 or 2 pc. I realize that is just you doing us all a favor (thanks for that). What I am wandering is it conceivable to get down to the cents per piece range doing a larger batch? 1,000 pc etc?