What did you mod today?

Not a flashlight but LED light none the less.

Made some bayonet bulbs out of some T10 (194). Cant buy the Warm White tint I wanted in that BA9s base so I made some. 8X 5730 SMDs 12V DC in WW.

Will be City lights inside the European spec headlights in my 1983 VW Jetta. Oh, the ā€™68 bus will get a pair too.

Interesting. And what part did you modify?

Isn't it obvious?

Today, PhilipSmith modified the concept of this thread to SPAM a Tank007 photo.

Eight out of nine posts from PhilipSmith are Tank spam and the other one is only two words that have nothing to do with the thread topic.

hmmmm, what did I mod today, nothing flashlight related just put together a holder for welding glass to go on the front of my camera lens for long exposure photos :sunglasses:

Cheers David

Did my first mod last night. E bay cheap zoomie with lattice brite.

Put in a xp-g2, 3d tint with qlite driver.

Now brighter than a lenser p7.2 for less than half the price. Pleased with the result, will try my hand at something bigger at some point.

That sounds like a great start of a healthy modding career! :slight_smile:

Yep, sounds like youā€™re hooked Mstevens113 :smiley: nice.

I got some 26350 cells yesterday. I modded a supfire L5 with an LD-2 driver and xhp70. Havenā€™t finished yet, I screwed up the switch retaining ring trying to remove it. Also you might note the led is off centre, I did this intentionally to reduce the donut hole.

A few days ago I modified my Ultrafire LZZ F13, I put in a XHP35 HI with a suitable driver; a whole other world! Very satisfied.

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The next item on my DIY driver wish list is an Attiny conversion for the ax2002 buck driver boards. HQā€™s boost boards fill that other side already. That would give us an inexpensive 1A boost and 1A buck driver both with programmable modes.

Installed a17mm MTN FET driver in my Manker E14 and used the BLF A6 driver in my Trustfire mini 02 triple XP-L.

I also modified an Xtar MC1 Plus with a voltage indicator and changed the sliding internal current switch to an external clicky so i can control whether it does the 500mA or 1A charge rate.
Normally this charger only charges cells longer than 53mm with the higher current setting.

I find this useful if i want to charge a 16340 or 18350 IMR cell a bit quicker.

CRX, your mods are the coolest IMO.
Simple, yet effective, useful and always well realized !
Your passion for epoxy glue, neodymium magnets and tidying everything up really reminds myself
I wish I had more free time (well I used to) to keep modding everything like you do.
I recently read why you got so much free time, so it helps to put things in perspective.
Keep modding, you give me ideas that I may have the time to realize one day :smiley:

XP-G3ā€™d my Lumintop Tool. Mounted on a 11mm copper sink pad with a little bit of MX4 for thermal compound. Just love it now. Does seem brighter and nicer tint then what came with the Tool.
Going to use the original xp-g2 from the Tool mount it on copper and use it to make a P60 @ 2.28 AMPs

My first flashlight mod in 3 years so I thought iā€™d start with working on my smallest lights. Seems my soldering has improved lol

Had to Trim the Plastic centring ring on the sides because they covered the wire pads

Stove in the background is my official new reflowing station LOL

I modified a piece of Gr 2 Ti into a Skunk beacon Saturday. :wink:

(tempting to leave it at that for curiosity sakesā€¦)

Working on an upgrade to a Ti flashlight I built recently I was removing the large piles of Ti cuttings and placing them behind me. The Ti has a way of staying in one piece throughout the cut, sometimes going below the cutting insert and sometimes curling around and piling on top of it. Luckily I had dumped my catch box and only had a small amount of shavings in it, as some of the Grade 2 Commercially Pure Titanium stacked up on the cutting tool and caught on fire. I knocked it off the work piece and it fell into the box below, only to catch itā€™s contents on fire as well! My cutting oils and a gallon of WD-40 were right there, so the box had to be removedā€¦ singed the hair of my hand as the flames rose to about 2ā€™ tall with the new ti cuttings catching fire but I got it out the door onto gravel where it could safely burn itself out. Moments later, flames still going and smoke drifting, Iā€™ll be danged if a skunk didnā€™t walk right past the box and come into my shop! It totally ignored me (must be related to my wife), wandered back behind me towards the front door. I had no choice but to vacate.

I guess there were some copper cuttings in the box as well, the flames got low and the box burned away, leaving some small orange flames with a brilliant emerald green flame mixed among it. Beautiful really! :slight_smile:

Crazy stuff. I wasnā€™t even using oil or cutting fluid at the time so it was pure titanium overheating and catching on fire. Who knew? :stuck_out_tongue:

How remiss of me, can at least show the finished light even without pics of the fire or the skunk, right? lol

You should get a 12mm fet from Mtn to stick in it. Itā€™ll definitely be brighter then.

Wow Dale, that sounds like a lucky escape! Iā€™m glad youā€™re alright (and the house and your indifferent wife, donā€™t tell her about this or she might become less indifferent :wink: )

CRX your MC1mod is off the hook!! :beer: I would buy a few of these from ya!! Keep them coming!! :+1:

Modified my Olight i3s and Convoy s2+ with XPLā€™s but that s2+ mod might end up in ā€œWhat did you BREAK today?ā€ it turns out reflowing 3 LEDā€™s at same time it is more difficult that i imagined when you donā€™t have proper equipment.

I changed the stock CW XP-G2 LED that was in the i3s with something a bit more warm, XPL V3 5A3 4000-4135k and it turned out to be very nice, it is my first 4000k flashlight and i know for sure that i will buy some more, seems like this little guy is goin to be on my car keys for a long time now.

Here are some pictures





I wasnā€™t in the mood for lights today (I know blasphemy, right) but I did make up a thread stop for my lathe. Iā€™ve got the basics of it, it just needs some refining.

Cool!

I NEVER thread with that fast speed, always use the lowest my lathe will run. I suppose a stop would make a lot of difference, probably still would use a slower speed. (scared of a crash, mine has a 1HP motor, capable of seriously screwing stuff up!)