Tritium (GTID) screws for Zebralight SC52 /Jetbeam SSA10, TCR10,RRT01,JA10,JC10,EYE15,EYE12,EYE10,E3S,S serials and D

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Hi all,

I’ve bought a Zebra light SC52 and I’ve been wanting to epoxy some tritium vials on the light but there just wasn’t a good place to glue it on to. Borrowing an idea from a friend, I managed to drill holes in the screws holding the clip of the Zebra light SC52 and insert tritium vials. Anyway, this is how it looks like.

I have checked with the manufacturers and this screw will work with the above flashlights.

This can be basically installed in any flashlights with screws (this is the SC52 with the smallest 0.95x3mm vials).

These would cost around $10 per piece before shipping for a stainless steel screw with the Tritium inserted for the 0.95x3mm vial on an M2.5x3mm screw.

Cheers, Ben :slight_smile:

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VERY cool!

If I had a light that used screws for the clip I would be in! Hmm. Maybe a knife?

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Does the clip still seem to hold with full strength?

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It’ll work with a knife too.

The clip still holds with full strength as the hole is only 1mm and doesn’t seem to weaken the screw at all.

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That is cool! If you can do blue or purple for the screws on a Benchmade as well as a little nitecore.

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I should be able to do it as long as you are able to give me the dimensions of the screw sizes. If the screws are large enough, I could fit in a 1.5x6mm vial in 9 different colours. Alternatively, you can send your screws over to me via snail mail (not sure how much it costs for you to send to Singapore) and I’ll send it back for $2.

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Haha, when I saw the title on BLF, I knew knife was going to mentioned in short order.
When I saw that torch I went “hmmm, I wonder if that clip can go on my blade…”
(I got newly addicted to knives partly because of bad influence on this site. :bigsmile: )

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Thats pretty slick. Just curious how you drilled them out? Vice? Drill press? Looks like rear gunsights.

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I used a lathe to drill the holes out. :slight_smile:

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I use pcb drill bits for applications like this

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After looking at my Luminox watch 12 o-clock marker, I dunno if blue would be very visible and the hex-like or star drive holes would be lost. Green is much more visible. But I like blue.

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I’m going to use Allen socket screws to try out today and get back to you guys. I’m not sure about the star like (torx I assume) ones the hole is really small.

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The Allen cap screws look better than the original in my opinion. :bigsmile:



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Torx! That’s right. I couldn’t remember the name.

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Awesome, just ordered a set.

I’ve been trying to wrap my head about how to get tritium into my sc52w (going as far as to 3d print attachments) but nothing came out as clean and subtle as this. I’ll post pics of them installed when I get them.

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Too bad I just got an order from you, I’ll definetly get some on my next order. Just thinking about what they’d be like in some bike components that have similar, but larger screws.

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Well, if you have a screw size I could try it out. However, I’m not sure about using modified screws on critical pivot joints. Maybe it’ll work on a road bike or on less important components like the bottle cage holder.

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@Eclipsesharp: I have a Niteye Eye10 TiC with the "camera mount" threading in the rear, do you think you can figure something out for that so I can find it in the dark? Set screw or sth like that..

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I reckon I can fit a 1.5 x 6mm vial or maybe 4 in but I have to get home to check how long the screw is. Itll probably be on a Allen cap screw too. I’ll probably need some free time to get to the hardware store (quite a distance) so if you can confirm that you want one, I’ll keep that in mind and notify you when I’m working on it. :slight_smile: