Where to buy Carclo optics?

I’ve been searching around for somewhere which will sell Carclo 26.5mm optics with reasonable postage costs and without requiring me to buy 10+ at a time.

illumination-supply seem to have had them but they are backordered atm.

I’m looking for either (or preferably both) the 10048 plain tight optic, or the 10124 narrow frosted optic. Both are 26.5mm diameter and 13.9mm deep. I want to try installing them in my SC600 to improve it’s durability, so would probably need the plastic holder for them as well.

Inspiration for this mod was taken from CPF member ‘juplin’: http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s265/juplin/01-SC600_TIR_S.jpg

Does anyone know somewhere that sells them in small quantities with low postage costs?

Lol. I am in the same spot as you. I read that thread and wanted to try that TIR in my SC600w but couldn’t find them anywhere. Hopefully somebody here can chime in :smiley:

fasttech selling them 5 for less than $2/free shipping

Looks like http://uk.mouser.com sells in quantities of 1. (But if I remember right, their shipping was outlandish.)

As to fasttech, I couldn’t find anything searching on carclo or 26.5. Link?

UK Farnell, but I don't know what the shipping is.

The cheapest price with great service is www.Ledsupply.com

If you find cheaper please let me know

Thanks for the responses, unfortunately I’ve checked those options already and:

Mouser charge a flat £12 for shipping, which for 2x £2 optics seems OTT.

Farnell will only sell them in batches of 10, and won’t ship any orders less than £20 total value.

LEDsupply will only ship international via Fed-Ex, which is $19.50 (about £12 again).

I haven’t seen any 26.5mm TIR optics on fast-tech either, I doubt they’d have Carclo ones that cheap though as they are made in the UK and cost at least $1.50 each. A link would be good though.

Conrad UK has some Carclo lenses

http://www.conrad-uk.com/ce/en/CategoryProducts.html?SHigh-power-LED-opticals-Luxeon?categorycode=0212362&categorycode=0212362&orderSequence=ASC&perPage=100&page=0&orderBy=CA%3BATT_GLOBAL_Brandname