What did you mod today?

sedstar · February 24, 2017, 6:44am

i figured eventually, that will be the “pill” in a flashlight from h3!!, ha ha

chouster · February 24, 2017, 8:52am

Didn’t know that, thanks. But I’ll just use external image hosting sites.

Mike_C · February 24, 2017, 10:04am

I made a hollow pill solid with a few washers and some JB Weld:

Lexel · February 24, 2017, 11:20am

They can be bought from Ebay as Cube in a cube or turners cube

But there is a big problem with mass production or groupby!

They are 100% handmade and the quantity availiable is really low.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/TURNERS-CUBE-Separated-Cube-in-a-cube-Handmade-Esthetic-Gift-Souvenir/302218148646

There is also a video made by CNC here
But you cant move the inner cubes

Geuzzz · February 24, 2017, 8:42pm

Put a new firmware convoy driver in my D25C. No more loosening/fastening the head

CRX · February 24, 2017, 11:39pm

Nitecore EC11 (EC21 18650 body) with lighted switches

giorgoskok · February 24, 2017, 11:43pm

Cool mod Crx , it’s really nice like that …

I need to ask , can you link the permanent ink you use in a lot of your mods ? Thanks!

CRX · February 25, 2017, 12:05am

Thanks mate. I use these things a lot

Pentel Permanent Marker Pen Black

Birchwood Casey Matt Black Touch Up Pen

J-B Kwik Weld

Fine Graphite Powder

mixed with

Devcon 5 minute Epoxy

MRsDNF · February 25, 2017, 2:13am

Looks good sedstar. :+1:

Mike_C · February 25, 2017, 2:44pm

What do you use that for? Potting?

CRX · February 25, 2017, 3:15pm

I use it mainly on the outside of lights, more description here

sedstar · February 25, 2017, 4:41pm

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Looks good sedstar.
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wow… coming from YOU? that means a lot… i have slobbered over some of your machiningbefore, lol…

yeah, i am worming my way towards MYAbe offering a few basic machining things/services to members, figured i need somethng to do, off work season now and all…

there seems to be a small but persistent demand for it…

hamedshh · February 25, 2017, 6:57pm

I mode a plastics torch with a cree xml led but it melt down by overheating the led and completly destroyed.
It mean high power leds shouldn’t be used in plastic structures.

vwpieces · February 25, 2017, 7:29pm

certainly hope you have pics. Please.

hamedshh · February 25, 2017, 7:53pm

Sorry i discarded it to ASHCAN last night and dustmans empty it.
Just the led remain now.

X31 · February 25, 2017, 9:31pm

I bought one of those cheap COB headlights for like 3$ on Ali, and put a lipo in it.
I can charge it with my quadcopter charger.

Rufusbduck · February 25, 2017, 9:43pm

CRX:

Ouchyfoot:

Thanks CRX
I was going to ask you how you did that. I’m still not exactly sure, but it sounds like a lot of careful work. Maybe you should post a separate thread that shows the process from A to Z, as I haven’t seen one.

Not so much careful work as messy! It’s quite a simple process though.

I will try to explain what i did with the lights.

First i roughen up and clean well the areas to be treated. I use a small diamond file where i can then acetone.

I use very fine graphite powder and a decent quality clear epoxy. If you can get black or other colour then that’s fine too, but i quite like to use the term “graphitized”. :person_facepalming:

Mix it up so it’s black and consistent - it doesn’t take much powder and spread it over the desired areas, trying to avoid bubbles and get it into all the grooves and such (Bubbles are the enemy!).
The deeper the grooves the better i think.
The tricky part is making sure the areas are covered well and stay covered, this means holding and slowly rotating the light until the epoxy sets in stiff enough and stops rolling around all over the place.
Use more than needed.
Come to think of it, i must have been doing this for about 8hrs total over the last couple of days as i ran out of quick setting 5 minute epoxy and only had 1hr setting stuff left for the last ones i did. :laughing: But anyway…

Set it looks like this

Once it is set hard enough i use an OLD WORN file to take off most of the excess by placing the light on top of the vice jaws and rotating as i file round it just down to the level of the light body, no more.
Don’t use a new file as this will end up eating into the flashlight body.

At this stage i used 600 grit sandpaper to round it off, then 1000 grit to smooth it and give the light a brushed finish. I suppose you could take it further to a polished appearance.

The graphite epoxy is very dark grey so i went over it all with a black pentel permanent marker (other markers may leave a purplish colour) It seems to be absorbed fairly well. Leave it for a few minutes then i wipe it over with a cloth and lighter fluid a few times to remove the excess ink.

Hopefully that leaves you with something like this

And before

It occurs to me you could use a rotisserie to allow it to rotate during the cure and possibly even for application.

ZozzV6 · February 26, 2017, 9:05am

To reply myself and to collect the whole BD06 FW changing info together. I find the solution for fast button presses. Changed the 1uF C1 capacitor to 2,2uF and it is much better now. :sunglasses:

ZozzV6 · February 28, 2017, 8:55pm

Putted in the striped Elliptical TIR lens in my S2+

Firelight2 · February 28, 2017, 9:37pm

Swapped the driver in my Skywolfeye TLY-6501. Previously, I had a BLF A6 driver in there. I replaced it with a Dr. Jones H17F. The emitter is an XPL HI 5000K 3D on Noctigon.

Hurray for putting $30 worth of parts into a $5 light! It’s very bright and throwy, but still looks like the same small cheap 1x18650 zoomie on the outside.

Thinking of modding another one of these to remove the tailcap switch and add a sideswitch similar to what I did with the Aleto N8.