Goodness! Any beamshots, perchance?
Armytek Viking pro XHP50 Warm modded to XHP50.3 HI 4000k 90cri. Once I picked up a three-way watch case wrench the rest was cake.
The HI
Original emitter
Beam profile with the HI
congrats on your modā¦ which wrench did you find helpful?
Just the cheap Pittsburg watch case opener from HF. Maybe not 100% the best tool for the job but with some care, ores is ion and brute force it worked well.
thank you 
How did you removed the reflector?
it has a small spot of adhesive on the outside to keep it in place. A few sharp knocks, bezel down (after removal) on a piece of pinewood and ti came right out. I did not glue it back in, seems very solid held in place by the bezel screwing down.
Good job installing those tiny little resistors! :+1:
Darosk, beam is decent but of course it spreads out with real distance. Lights up good out to around 150-200M.
Why did you file down the pill, couldnāt you use a 16mm mcpcb instead ?
I did it 3 times actually, before I settled on 300 Ohms. 
I made a mistake with the order- I meant to order the 16mm size for a different flashlight. The K12 had a 4000k SST20 in it (that I wasnāt impressed by) and it was the only flashlight the 20mm LED could be fitted into. It worked out well in the end- better colour temp, more spread and throw- using the same driver.
Getting LEDs , drivers etc. in Australia is frustrating and involves long wait of over 4 weeks. Plus the Aus $ isnāt fairing well against the US $.
Iām still in my flashlight modding sabattical, but I did mod another knife today.
I inherited my motherās spinach chopping knife, with which she has been making spinach for more than 40 years. She also used it for cutting out the weeds between the grass in the back garden.
The state of the knife was better than it looks, the wooden handles had rotten/broken so they are gone, not sure what happened to the pins, and under the handles some deep pits had rusted in, but the blade is in good shape and so is the side of the handle section. And it is still dead straight.
So I made a new french oak handle for it.
I started this weeks ago, and bought some brass screws on aliexpress, that came in today. The screws are 4mm diameter so I had to ream the holes in the knife with a 4mm drill. The hole most to the back was easy, but the other two were a pain, the steel was almost as hard as the dril bit! They did a good harden job back in the days.
The wood and the tang of the knife were treated with boiled linseed oil to preserve the knife.
It was not a great precision job, the first time I made a knife handle this way, and the screws are a bit larger than I imagined, but it is a working knife again, and the not so great handles fit the old knife well enough I think 
I thought of sharpening it again, but I have enough sharp knives so for the moment I keep it this way.
very nice handles, and relic knifeā¦ thanks for the picsā¦
the handles look like they are upside down thoughā¦. must be my perspectiveā¦
Looks nice Djozz ! Although they do not look 100% symmetrical in the last pic 
I did notice your lower than usual amount of modding posts, but didnt know you have some sort of flashlight sabbatical , any specific reason for the sabbatical ?
i finally learned how to swap emitters in my fraz; tried about 4 in there so far once i figured it outā¦
Not one reason:
*my motivation for the hobby was in part coupled to the lightning fast development of leds from 2011-2018, developments since then are much slower, not much gain anymore. Except for LEP but LEP modules are expensive, are difficult to mod with and are already fairly optimally used in stock lights (not like back then, we made throwers that throwed more than twice as far as any stock light). I may have a go at those though.
*several big developments in the world make me worry, for me worries are not good for hobby.
*our sonās health has been pretty bad for half a year. But he is much better now
> *our sonās health has been pretty bad for half a year. But he is much better now
My heart goes out to your family, best wishes for your sonās continued recovery.
Sorry to hear, dont worry too much Jos, if you need a listening ear, you can always contact me.
Health always goes first, good to hear that his healthyness is improving!
What a nice way to breathe new life into something with such sentimental attachment and a real working history!
You could put a nice high CRI emitter on the front end of that handle, you knowā¦.