Cookery results in. No real change - maybe a slightly golden sheen that wasn't there before.
Those threads are not pretty. Time for a bath.
The rest of it.
Washed the parts in hot soapy water to clean up burnt residues in the threads.
Put the O rings back, lubed, cleaned and reassembled. As ever, the switch retaining ring was a pain to put back.
Thanks Don. I suspected the end results being like that.
It would be funny if someones wife switched lights with a black one ..
You'd wake up and think...." wait a minute ....it turned back to black again "
EDC you DO need to stop ....
I'm still curious if indeed they do start getting lighter and lighter ...
Someone needs to get creative with a toothpick and some oil and go for the striped or spotted light ... My sipik 58 has a few spots of black I assume it's because I didn't clean it before baking.
trustfire 801 ?
sunwayman ?
zebralight ?
Nitecore ?
Don't have the guts ...
Thought I'd try a type 3 anodised light - the Fenix E01 came to mind.
So I attacked the body with a gas torch for ten minutes.
There was a fair amount of organic material in the knurling which burned off. The olive green dye Fenix uses is tough stuff.
If anything, the area I heated now looks newer than the rest of the body. Photobucket seems to be refusing to accept my pictures just now.
I tried the cheap blue anodized light I mentioned early and it was very non-exciting. I left it in the oven for 2+ hours, but the blue only faded slightly. It has a muted silver/gray sheen now as the only difference. I tried to photograph it but my camera pumped the saturation up too much so you can't really tell that much difference in the photos.
Don, when this topic first came up, ezarc made the comment that the heat treatment only seems to work with HA II coating - HA III won't change color.
That actually looks fantastic! Traditional black & gold…nice!
I masked up a Solarforce L2i (sorry, Foy) and hit it with oven cleaner. Five minutes later, the ano slid off.
Into the oven it went:
Here's how it came out, before polishing :
I did a Solarforce L2M body, and it came out nicely :
Haha u r a mad man ,very cool
did you mask with tape? I was thinking candle wax might work well...
I used green frog tape in 2-3 layers, and went the harsher chemical route to minimize soaking time.
Next try will be with rubber cement. I've had good luck masking with that in the past.
good idea
fyi, oven cleaner from "dollar tree" works as well as easy-off. the stuff is like magic for neglected carburetors :)
I must stop.(just one more?) I do see benefits though. It cleans up the ano, especially on the threads. Also makes your lights unique and is a way of indentifying them from other people's. Say someone stole your lights and were caught but how would you prove they were yours if they dont have serial numbers. nevermind.....
A gas torch is really a fast way to do it. I was thinking of heating one up to the point were it just starts to change color and then dropping water or oil on it.
The 504B is almost handsome now.
Looks like I need to bake the tube a little longer. My F15 is now the automotive equivalent of a 1997 Eldorado with a carriage roof, wide white walls and a Continental kit.
Foy
This one is for Boaz. I know how much he loves these lanterns. I went a little too hard on this. You would not be able to reach this temp in an oven. The kd c8 is to show the difference in color.
@edc: Is the top light a Yezl Z1? I have that exact light but mine doesn't say CREE on the faceplate. I'm interested because it is really my crappiest light, but I like the size and form. Turning it into a copper or bronze color would be a definite improvement
I believe it to be the Ultrafire 2100 - basically the same light as the Yezl
Ah, thanks. Looks good in copper either way
correct!
Amazing, simply amazing. I had more fun doing this than a kid in a candy shop.
