Sold Out! O-L Modified Maglites 2D W/3-up XHP50, FET, cosmetics, BEAM SHOTS NOW

These will punch out serious lumens. Any idea, OL, of the final number ? I cannot afford one, but I’m very interested to keep watching this post though.

Not till I do some amp draws and then I can guesstimate off that. If I use a conservative 2500 lumens per led, then 7500 lumens isn’t too far off, but it will be a large floody beam, with the small SRK reflectors.

Man I’ve been waiting for RMM’s Mega M6 and now this comes along.

Cripes. That’s awesome.

I’ll take #6

I’ll take #2.

I’ll take lucky number 4 because we know 2 and 3 aren’t.

Looks like lucky #5 is the only one not claimed. thank you all so very much and I will update as things progress with them.

I will be honored to take #5 then!

God, if only there was a seventh…. So in love with this one. A masterpiece, really! Perfect work OL!

Sold Out already! Thank you all so much! I will keep this thread updated as the lights get finished up.

First testing with the 3-ups shows about 4.5 amps per led with Efest purple 18650 cells, so not too shabby and that's with fairly long and thin test leads. Hopeful it will put out about 9000 lumens from the leds, with the short thick wires in the builds and good 26650 cells, but less lumens OTF with the stippled reflectors and lightly frosted domes. Maybe 7500 OTF, just a SWAG.

In other words, respectable, with a large floody hot spot.

That's all for now. Still waiting for the lights to come back from engraving.

This sounds fantastic, thanks for the update.

Epic, truly epic work! I know it’s been said before, but You ARE The Man! :smiley:

…now i wonder if this device will be allowed in my country? - lol :smiley:

Thanks for the update Justin.
Keep up the good work.

Pat, have you not seen a light of this caliber in action? If not, then you have more than a few giggling schoolgirl moments in store! :smiley:

Thanks for the heads up, that is good news Old lumens.
There will be some giggly school girl moments indeed!
Looking at the pics I see 7 bezels. Who gets lucky number 7?

Solar, have you ever tried to build as many as 6 duplicated custom lights? When you’re a small guy like us, things have a way of going wrong. So I bought an extra Maglite and dressed it so Justin would have the parts needed in case something happened. Hence, the 7 bezels.

I was wanting to be greedy and have an option on that 7th light if it wasn’t needed, but have since opted out in favor of Justin doing what works out best for him. I’m not perfect, my machining is elementary (having only started in Sept of last year, although I do TRY for perfection it’s fleeting) and so the thought process was to allow culling, if necessary, on the parts.

Making a run of 6 custom lights is not an easy thing to pull off. (Difficult enough to complete one!) Justin is well known as the MagLite Guru around here, so if anyone can do it, well, this project is certainly in the right hands!

Edit: Y’all all know I talk to much already anyway, so I just want to add something. This project has some kind of blessing on it already. How do I know that? Because I have had a great deal of difficulty with the part-off tool and this lathe. Cutting the fins, precisely and to the same depth, is not something I’ve had much luck with (I have had enough trouble parting off that I typically use a hack saw and then clean up the part with a face cut.) But those 5 cuts, in 7 lights, went exceptionally well on this occasion and so I can say, without hesitation, there’s definitely something special going on here! :wink:

I might also add, that it’s because of Justin and his challenges that I’m able to do most any of this anyway. I am not a machinist, but I took a 70 yr old high speed steel planer blade and ground a profile onto it to make cuts in these lights, specifically for Justin’s request. And it worked, beautifully! Blessed, I’m telling you this project is Blessed! Y’all are some seriously lucky folks that get these lights…

I certainly feel lucky to be involved, both for the performance potential of the light and for the names involved in building it. I’m pretty handy myself but there’s just something about being able to support other people’s enjoyment of the hobby that I find really rewarding, so I consider myself very lucky to be included in this one.

One question though — I just realized I don’t even own two 26650 cells. I’ve got one, but its in use in another light and I prefer to buy new matched sets for multi-cell lights anyway. So how about a recommendation? I strongly prefer to buy my batteries from US-based sources, so what would you guys recommend from either mtnelectronics or illumn.com? Performance is primary consideration, runtimes come second. Price isn’t an issue.

Pick up a couple of the extremely high capacity Trustfire 32650’s from Richard at mtnelectronics.com They’re 6000mAh and they deliver more current than 26650’s in a couple of fat lights I’ve tested. For example, 3 Efest 26650’s in the 4200mAh capacity in my modified TR-J20 fell over 600 lumens shy of what the 32650’s give. And with that capacity, it’s a no brainer in these lights!

Edit: It might require a small modification at the tail cap to use 2 of those, just remembered that. The 32650’s are longer than “D” cells, as such the tail cap might need to have the very outer diameter bored slightly to allow the cell to fit inside the tail cap, and the spring moved to the bottom of the tail cap instead of sitting on that shelf. I should have thought about that and asked Justin if he wanted me to make that mod while they were here. I can still do it of course, we’re not that far apart both being in Texas… totally up to him.