Manker E14 Mods

Q: is the bluing conductive, and can it be soldered to?

great job

thanks for your time to document it and share with us

btw your collection looks great

Great thread crx! that looks stunning with the black stripes.

Great job, it looks super.

CRX, what battery are you using? It must be 16340 or cr123? I just took about .005” off of each end of the battery tube to square it up and improve contact. I don’t think I can go any shorter and still take a 18350. Also mine is a S41 but I doubt there’s any difference.

V2 looks georgous!

Yes the coating came off mostly with acetone, should patina nicely now

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Yeah i think Toms explanation is right there

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C’mon, give it a shot like i showed, you can do it :wink:

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It’s just a thin layer of oxidised copper so would imagine it’s only slighly less conductive and would need cleaned before soldering

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Thanks :slight_smile:

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Yeah i think it does look better now

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That’s why i trimmed down the driver retaining ring and replaced the spring with a copper stud so as to leave plenty of space in the battery compartment.

Here’s mine with a flat top purple Efest 18350, still space for a button top

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V2, i like that

Amazing work!!! What’s your address, I want to send you mine :slight_smile:

(joking…kinda….not really)

Nice work sorting out the details - that’s where the devil is, & something we’ll probably never see coming off a production line in a budget light.

I’m thinking about changing mine to a forward clicky. Besides the switch, do i need any other parts? Just wanted to know before i tackle this.

thanks!

It’s a fairly simple swap, i think i just cut the nub off the rubber boot and used a slightly thinner washer.

Thanks for the tip. I was able to reuse the plastic washer and installed a forward clicky with spring bypassed. Much brighter!(and more useless as it heats up even quicker)

I was wondering if XP-L will fit under the optics? Or you think I should stick with XP-L HI?

I was wondering the same, the new XP-L2’s might fit but i haven’t looked at it properly yet.
I did buy an extra optic so will probably install some higher powered emitters even if the optic needs modified a little :smiling_imp:

Hmm…Now I might wait until XP-L2’s available and wait for you to mod it first! :+1:

I guess if they do come out with XP-L2 HI then it’s a no brainer for me. No need to worry about the optics dedoming the LEDs.

This has been my dream light for a while now and I finally got one! I’m following your lead on some of the mods I’m doing as well. I hope you don’t mind. Acouple questions though. How do you like the forward clicky with the way the modes are set up on this light, and WHERE CAN I GET A TAILCAP LIKE THAT!! HAHA. Sorry but you took what I thought was a work of art and turned it into an absolute masterpiece! I’m serious about the copper tail cap thoughlol. Is it a one off or something? great work man. my hat is off to you.

Thanks friend, the tritium tailcap has a forward clicky in it and the 18500 tube has a reverse clicky.
I changed the driver to a MTN fet with guppydrv1 so it works nicely with either.

The 18500 tube I made from an 18650 extension tube, switch and copper wire.

Can you show us how you did the copper on the bottom and on the tail cap? I’d like to build one myself just like yours so any help would be highly appreciated!

Thanks

Ridiculously sexy

CRX,

The last picture (down-right)…was it there before? :stuck_out_tongue:

Yes it was there, I just re-arranged stuff.