I had a spare blue Convoy S2+ host. Because I used the tailcap on my BLF A6se. So I thought I would try heat colouring it. I put it in the oven on broil for about 45 minutes. I like the blue grey colour it came out to be. I think I’m going to do it again when my shipment from Mountain Electronics shows up hopefully next week.
A few pictures. There is more grey in it than the pictures show.
You can see in this picture there was a flaw in the anodizing and caused a gold discolouration. The black is just crap from that baking sheet I had it on, That cleaned right off
Has anybody done this with the red S2+? I’d love to see what colour that would turn. If it is anything like what the blue did I think it may transform into a cool orange colour.
Well that looks great! I’ve been holding out hope that Convoy would release a gray S2+ with the neat “piston” switch. I may just have to buy a blue one and bake it.
To answer your question, yes someone here did bake a red one. There’s a thread somewhere with it. It came out kind of a bronze color as I recall.
you need to clean them or you’ll get a mark like that on the head …any lube ,oils etc really screws up the baking process ……screws it up or makes it cooler depends how creative your schmutz is .
Hmmm.
I was just looking at a thread by mrkelvin who baked his blue Convoy S2, and it came out dark bronze.
Two blue Convoy S2s, one baked blue grey and the other baked dark bronze. Could one of these be a fake?
I have one in the post and wanted that blue grey colour, but now I’m not so sure. I wouldn’t like it if it came out bronze.
I don’t claim any sort of expertise on this - I’ve never even done it myself - but I think temperature and exposure time play a big role in the final color.
I think the cheaper anodizing all goes to bronze. That blue phase is the first I’ve seen. I think the two S2s have completely different types of anodizing.
Did you bake your light in an (electric) oven? In that case the changes in anodisation are only/mainly caused by heat. Because in an oven you only want to warm things up, not burn them. When I read the thread of mrkelvin I get the impression he baked his light in the flame like a marshmallow (hotter + oxidation).
Does the light look professional, like it was meant to be blue grey or does it look like a spray can painted aluminum fishing boat? It looks pretty good in the pictures, but pictures don’t always tell the whole story… thanks for sharing by the way:)
