Noā¦sorry, the set-up time on the old worn out WWII vintage Lathe at work is nerve racking, it really needs to be gone thru and I do it on my breaks, go in early or stay over, not one of my most favorite things to do. 
I going to send pics to Neal to send to Lumintopā¦. maybe it will get some attention, plus it has to be cheaperā¦they can crank them outā¦
I had to ask :innocent:
Thanks for your honest reply and I guess me and all of those that have the FW3A and want a āshortyā version will appreciate your efforts on this!
This light is surely great and the smaller it is, the better (at least for me) !Some time ago I tried and Convoy S2+ tube just to demonstrate how small it would be (the 18350 battery was inside and fit well, it just didnāt work, of course)
I hope your works and words get to them to make this a reality!!!
See how lovely it would be :heart_eyes:
Nice work there Nitroz !
KB whatās the process? Same as OL cut down mags? Cut a section of the center out and then rejoin the two ends?
For the signal carrier tube I assume you just chop the end off it?
The stock O.D. of the tube measured .847ā so I turned the O.D. of the main tube to .827āx.250ā (dia. and depth of step) and bored the tail cap collar I.D. to a diameter of .824āx.250ā deep.
. For a .003ā shrink fit. Heated the collar with a heat gun and pressed it on.
. Oh it worksā¦ just like it is, I have longer (BlueSword) springs on the driver and tail cap on my 2 FW4A quads and made a copper signal tube I used originally on my FW3/NovaTac. I want it shorter, then I will hand fit the original FW3A signal tube.
. I also sent Neal a PM with picsā¦.time to start hammering Lumintop and Nealā¦ :+1:
My first reflow:
was
Thorfire TK05 w XP-G3 6000k
stock:
5-70-240 lumens
modded to
319b 3000k 9050
new output
Eneloop 3.6-41.5-160
AA 3.5-40-110
colors
disclaimer, not all the lumen levels are identical
Congratulations, you seem to be the first to fry the new SST-40 with copper bond wires!
It would have to be meā¦ 
If anyone was gonna put enough amps through it, who else?
my second reflow, ever, on the right, using a 12mm copper star from Ogazent
major thanks to my coaches moderator007, pol77, Clemence, and videos by Lexel
Before heat and pressā¦ā¦.gives ya and idea how it worksā¦ went with a .0045ā interference press finally!
Short as I can go with out getting into the head taperā¦.
annnnnd DONE!
Itās kind of cute with out the clip, looks like a little bomb 
That IS cute, KawiBoy! Great work!
Wow, wish the FW3X was available in that sizeā¦ 
Thanks!
Thankfully an 18350 FW3C doesnāt require precision tools like Kawi used. Just a hack saw and some solder, you down to try?
Kawi, I donāt believe thatās real, looks like Photoshop to meā¦ cut your copper one down like that and send it to me for inspection and Iāll report on it hereā¦ 
Daleās a professional photographer. So, if he says itās Photoshop, it must be true!
Congrats on the successful emitter swaps jon-slider 
Very niice work Kawiboy 
Thanks for the comments my fellow BLF mod-broās and those who are about to mod broās ā¦! 
Didnāt have the heart to cut down the stock signal tube, saving it for the other Bigger FW3ās just in case, so I rolled my own out of Brass and insulated it with Kapton tapeā¦
Iāll cut the signal tube down to lessen the gap between the head and battery tube. It operates/functions Rock solidā¦. again thanks everybody!
ā¦ā¦ and Daleā¦ āNOāā¦āNot Going to Do Itā ā¦ā¦ not cutting the FW3Cā¦ā¦but I did think about it for about a secondā¦ 