The What did you mod? thread seems popular, so let’s put a twist on it. Only parts that were made from “scratch” by the poster are acceptable. Anyway…
Here we go!
This is a anti roll ring for a D cell maglite. Made from .375” 6061 T6 aluminum plate and painted with some duplicolor metalcast.
Who’s next?
OOooo I like that color. It’s almost like a sonic blue.
Nice. Was this by hand or machine?
I did it all with a file… J/K. Waterjet.
Made a pair of omni positional miniature work lights recently. Designed so that the heat travels through the joints. Has a 10mm ‘wide beam’ optic and an older high cri Nichia 219A on a 10mm DTP sinkpad.
Thats very nifty Hoop. It appears you did more hand work on this than machine work. 
That is a really neat little piece of engineering you’ve put together there. I like it, might have to build something like it. What are you using to power it?
I used dual Mean Well LDD-1500L drivers on separate dimmer channels.
Way cool!
Waiting on a driver to finish.
@MRsDNF - 26650 ?
Close. 2 x rechargeable D cells. This lights for a member here that has given me far to much over the years. The battery tube is from an old D Mag shortened then cooked. Its pretty close to brass in colour.
Very nice looking pile of parts you have there, MRsDNF!
Looks awesome, whoever gets it will be very lucky to have it 
I made a 4 bay power supply switch box for my 12-volt chargers. The power supply is home made as well.
Ah Steve.
So this is where you hide. I almost missed this thread.
D cells, AA cells…you are ever the responsible stoic.
I see a djozz spring there peeking out.
I hide here because the good wife can’t find me here. :innocent:
Modded my Skilhunt DS16.
The DS16 is a 1xAA light with an electronic sideswitch, cool white XPL and smooth reflector.
I originally purchased this light with the idea of converting it to a triple XPL HI powered by an 18650. I quickly ruled that out when I took it apart and noted that the tube wasn’t thick enough at the tailcap threads to allow me to bore it out for 18650.
I abandoned my original plan and instead did the following:
Results are surprisingly nice. This light has more mass and better heatsinking than most of my other 1xAA lights. With the FET driver, XPL HI, and smooth reflector it also throws very well…. much better throw than any of my small triples or quads.
I’ve been leaning away from 14500 lights recently because the smallest 18650 lights are about the same size as a medium-sized 14500 light. And 18650s tend to supply much more power and yield a brighter light than 14500s. However, I am quite impressed with the Efest purple 14500, which in this light produces virtually the same output as a Samsung 30Q … at least when compared at turn-on with fresh cells. Output is over 27k lux.
NOTE: I discovered that the threads of the Skilhunt match those on the Astrolight S41 / Manker E14 / BLF A6. The heads and bodies are fully legoable between the two.
Got a couple minutes with the old “water laser” to zip this out quick. It will eventually be the optic holder for my new build if the rest of the parts ever get here…
The optics are carclo 10193 if anyone was wondering