HS-801 is easily dismantled. I found that KD version of HS-802 is much better than DX one. Looks the same at the first sight, but KD version is more robust (so more mass to heatsinking), easy to moddification and not a single part is glued.
http://www.kaidomain.com/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductId=5634
Hrvoje
I bought this for under 20USD with a bunch of referrals and coupon codes floating the net :P :
I hope they skimped on glue since it's cheaper. :P
Should be here just a bit after new year. I just tracked my XM-L flashlight from KD and it has already left Switzerland which means it is in my hand in 2-3days max. Yay!
Wow-you sound like me!! Thank God I do yoga to get nice and zoned out! <g>
I can elevate profanity to an art form when working on stuff, so I pace myself and do slow, deep belly breathing when I get uptight-or know when to drop everything and walk away. Works much better for me and I enjoy the modding a lot more.
It's late now, but I just found this post. If you look at the thread on the Kl3 floodlight I just did, you'll know that the Surefire KL3 is the worst bastard in the world to get open. Solution: Heat gun (a real one, not a hair dryer) applied in the appropriate places will break glue eventually.
Rich
I tend to set things on fire with a heat gun. Prefer a welding torch when I have gas for it. You can really set stuff on fire with those!
Never owned a Surefire and probably never will as my day job doesn't pay all that much, and if it did, I'd spend the money elsewhere. My creditors usually prefer I spend my money elsewhere. Like paying them.
As for profanity, my day job doesn't really allow it most of the time, so I try to keep my tongue in rein. Especially since one of the customers said to me, "You eat with that mouth?"
But don't listen to me in heavy traffic or when playing the Sex Pistols.
Or when dealing with any dental practice management software. (Don't ask)
Or even get into any vehicle I'm driving under the influence of the Sex Pistols. You re not going to enjoy what ensues.
Jimi Hendrix' Hey Joe has similar effects.
But I gave up on illegal stimulants 35 years ago. They did do rather bad things to my vocabulary.
These days my response to most stressors is that "life is too short, come to that, I'm too short for this." And I get a lot of stressful stuff every day. Sort of goes with the territory when you work in mental health services.
I'll be in your general area some time next summer when I have to appear in Pittsburgh for a course I'm on. Or at least i think I'm on. I paid the fees in September and that was the last I heard from them.
Don what driver did you put in this HS-802, and what LED?
An XM-L on a 16mm star and an eBay 3A driver. Went to eBay for a supplier shipping stuff from the UK for speed - worked too, go the driver in 3 days.