I baked my grey S2 today. A bit over 500°f, about 30 minutes for the head and tailcap and 45 minutes for the tube. It eliminated the blue tint. Very satisfied with the result.
edit: here it is beside a piece of ti-6al-4v
I wonder how would the clear S2+ and C8 colors vary with baking
this is super cool. how did you get the gradation?
I uesed wet cloth on one end in the tube and on the threads and heated the other end hard with a big gas burner
Purple Convoy S2, Convoy S2 UV, old Silver Convoy S2 (baked), Black Convoy S2+ (baked)
Purple Convoy S2, Convoy S2 UV, old Silver Convoy S2 (baked), Black Convoy S2+ (baked)
Although I had used a ceramic stovetop in the past I was concerned with inconsistent results so I tried a toaster oven this time. I hung the pieces on a steel skewer and placed that on a ceramic bowl. I was aiming for a similar result to Zeroair’s. Thought I was wasting electricity with the old silver S2+ until I noticed it was a different shade of silver. I’m happy with the results as it helps to “individualise” them, especially with some coloured buttons from the Convoy store. I have a new S21B which I may be able to bake. I didn’t bake a Convoy C8 as it has an integrated shelf so I’d have to unsolder the LED.
I baked a black Kaidomain S2+ host. I put the clean parts on a skewer over a glass baking dish in the oven at 500F for 30 minutes.
The head and tail baked evenly, but came out lighter than the body. So I baked the body some more, but it got lighter than the head and tail. I then baked the head and tail some more, but again too much. It took several more rounds to get them to match up.
In the end it turned into a very nice coppery brown. I’m impressed!
Anyone ever baked a purple convoy?
Im very curious what color it would turn.
(Specifically the lighter purple of the C8+)
Love the results! I never thought I would say that I will be baking my flashlight tomorrow…
Has anyone experimented putting a flashlight in an air fryer?
Might be a pain to place the parts in such a confined space.
How about in a fireplace?
First attempt at baking. Used to be a black M21B. Quite happy with the result.
Oven at max 250 C
Bezel 11 mins
Head 23 mins
Tube and tailcap 30 mins
@Verodin:
Looks great!
Thanks, just had to try one of these BFL recipes. Very tasty pretty 
It feels so strange to just put some flashlight parts in the oven… too much black already, so why not. Very curious how other colours would turn out. But not many examples around.
Sometimes there’s strange variations in the dye. I have a black Boriut D10 that turned army green and a black Boruit D25 that turned the typical reddish-golden.
Hmmm, that would make it less easy to predict the end result. Although it seems most times black turns that reddish-golden.
Did another one, this time a grey S2+. Been sticking labels on same coloured flashlights to keep them apart and baking seems a much nicer way of ‘marking’ them. Sofirn SP10 series anyone?
Just 5 mins seems to have changed it enough to make it more recognisable.
Looks good Verodin! I may need to consider baking a gray S2 or S2+ in the future.
I don’t have any duplicates of Convoy colors and baking them is a great modding option.
Looking at my green S21A make me wonder how that would turn out.
Verodin or NeutralFan;
I tried baking my K1 (basically an S2 from KD) for over 1 hr 30 min at 500ºF but nothing happened. A very slight crackling of the finish. I didn’t use the broiler as I presume uneven heating standing upright. Maybe I should re-try but strung from the rack?
Picture (the one on the left): I had to tone down the Exposure Value as the auto-white balance made everything wash out – the actual colour is much more like ‘white gold’ (a jeweller’s alloy of gold with other metals to soften the yellow).
Has anyone tried a gold-coloured one?
I suspect cooking the finish actually decomposes the pigmentation(s) if organic – but would not place any wager of such dyes.
If they are mineral-based, then the salts would go into a higher oxidation state; as Fe to Fe+. Perhaps the white gold on my light is electroplated? Perhaps the metallic finish can’t have its valence changed?
I have long wondered what various greens might turn into! If you do yours please share a pic. The deeper green of the S2+ might be interesting.
I think I’ll do the grey S21B and see if it’ll nix some of that blue hue it has…might even do that to the FW3A and FWAA.
When I’ve done black hosts it seems like it takes a few hours…one didn’t really finish black-to-orange for almost five hours but it turned out really nice. I do them in a small toaster oven set on max (around 450°F if it can maintain that). Figured the small space in there was more efficient for the job compared to using the range oven.
’Twas mentioned before that yeah, baking does indeed crack the ano. Usually “microscopically” so that it’s hard to tell, but if extreme, then noticeably.
Oh, I read the thread and was so pointing out that the colour didn’t change much at all. My query was why it didn’t ‘bake’?
Addendum: Meant to say that I had read a previous post (not necessarily this one), from some years ago, about the baking. Can’t find it at the moment.
Just to clarify my posting, ’case someone construes it erroneously.