Ah, yeah if it is not a DTP then the LEDâs will die in a big hurry that is for sure.
Time to swap in some 16mm DTP copper stars.
Sadly⌠after reopening from the Chinese New Year, I donât think the MCPCBs ever made it back into Simonâs store. I wonder if J-Dub could get Simon to bring those back.
TK75 2015
Swapped emitters to dodomed XM-L2 U4 1As
Before Dedome
After dedome
I bought this headlight a while back. Itâs cheap, in every sense of the word. The battery tube is too short and wouldnât take protected batteries. The beam was awfully ringy, came with one of those LatticeBright Cree knock offs with itâs hideous purple tint⌠totally pointless light.
So I reused some spare parts, and put an XM-L2 U2 emitter, OP reflector, 22AWG wires, Njang driver, and finally modded the cap to fit longer batteries and drilled a hole to fit a reverse clicky.
This one is a perfect example of polishing a turd, but at least now itâs usable
The piano wire I ordered finally arrived. As well as the tiny SS screws that came from the UK.
I have never worked with piano wire before and really should get a jig or something so I can make straighter bends. But at least I got it 90% of the way to where I want it. I planned for it to be longer but I kinda like how the length is.
The clip on style pocket clips have been driving me nuts. I didnât like the Astrolux clip from day one and tried sanding and bending the Convoy S2 clip into something tolerable. I still missed my old Ultrafire F40B clip that didnât destroy my jeans like the new ones do. So far I am really liking how this is working. I just want to make another one so its a little more even.
Modded Nitecore MT40GT- Here is a review from member Realista REVIEW: Nitecore MT40GT (XP-L Hi V3 , 2x18650)
I De-domed XHP35HD-1A, used a Mtn Max 22mm 4S Buck driver set at 3amps, 4 Efest 18350 Flat tops, 26mm Maxtoch XP board, modified the shelf to accept the board. Very nice tint, and very nice small reflector, Big Beam thrower! 
I like it!! :+1:
Stripped the anno off of my astrolux s1 and polished it.Then made it into a triple led light.
S2+ spacer from mtn electronics worked great for it.
Today I removed the ring magnet from my S2+ because it was hard to push the button with my thumb. Then skrink tubed two magnets to the belt clip.
After that I replaced the BLFA17DD driver with Texas Avenger in the Jaxman E2L triple, and played a little with S2+ parts and snack packaging.
Wow! You really had to work on that magnet! 
Sure. When I put it in it was already a tight fit and needed hammering through a wood block and I added instant glue between the tailcap and magnet. I like to oversize fittings a little bit. To remove I needed a plier, a wise and a torx bit. I destroyed the edge. Then I can not grip the magnet. After that I put the tailcap in the wise with the small torw bit pushing the magnet through lanyard hole and I won!
That is entirely too much spinner for my little wallet. I donât even want to know how much something like that costs.
I can only afford the one given to me by my great grandfather Cyrus McPegleg. He said it keeps the krakken away while sailing.
How did he get the peg leg, you ask? Well, one day he went out to sea without this:
Yow. Complete with the battery still inside? Does that damage the tail boot, optics, or o-rings?
I think you just got photobombed by The Flash.
So, this isnât something I modded today⌠or even anywhere close to today⌠but I found a box labelled:
HANDLE WITH CARE
PHOTONS IN TRANSIT
⌠and inside was the very first pocket light I ever built.
Hot glue and melted plastic are high-tech, and check out that âSuper Brightâ LED. Itâs pretty compact, too; thereâs virtually no wasted space in this build:
It has throw and flood, though nothing particular in-betweenâŚ
And it makes a sweet beam shot!
Wow, I remember when I discovered those megabright one million candela 10mm LEDs !
Awesome little Pocket rocket you got there !
EDIT : wait, are those MCd or mCd ? :innocent:
Iâm not sure, but itâs pretty bright. It puts out at least a hundred milli-lumens. I only needed like a half-second exposure for those beam shots, so Iâm pretty impressed with it. In a dark room, it lets me see things thousands of millimeters away.
And the best part? The runtime â I havenât had to change the battery in about 20 years!
At least the wavelength isnât lying about itself nm will always be nm !
Oh, um. Something I modded much more recently⌠really more like something which keeps evolving over time⌠my desk. At night, it doubles as a night light:
It doesnât look quite that bright in real life; I just had the camera do the longest exposure it could. Didnât even bother fiddling with a tripod; itâs easier to transform into a statue for a moment.
Oh, and donât mind Mister Spooky there in the back. Heâs just being spooky.
^i feel both cold and cozy in your picture, dont know why, maybe warmer light may help
