This thread is really working, I see many mods passing by.
Nice recovery, ohaya!
@CRX, the Ti has a 12mm lens, but I never saw a 12mm ZWB2 for sale: did you sand a bigger one smaller?
My mod for today: Thorfire TG06, XP-L Hi 3000K 80CRI on Noctigon soldered to pill, BLF A6 driver with 470Ohm bleeder over the C1 and spring replaced by an 1mm thick brass bit, lighted tailcap with three different blue tints, cyan/lightblue/deep blue (very attractive, does not show well on picture). The stock tail-parts were replaced by a small Omten on 16mm board (I re-used it from my X5, with the double spring, disengaged the tail-led), and Pilotdog68âs 6-led dumb lighted tailboard with 3x 5.6kOhm resistors. I used the stock tail retaining ring, but because the tail-assembly is just a bit shorter than stock, I had to put a 1.5mm thick brass washer under it to have it make contact with the body when the tailcap is screwed in.
On high (with dark purple Efest 14500) it puts out 700 lumen at start-up, 600 lumen after 30 seconds (20% less than my X5 with the same led, not really sure why). The led is not perfectly centered (can not adjust it, everything is fixed) but the beam is ok.
It is nice enough to become my EDC for a while The tail leds are way too bright but I enjoy it too much to change that for the moment.
Djozz those blues look very nice. Where did you find all those shades? Adding an LTC to my TG06 is on my to-do list. I hadnât before because they draw was too much for a 14500 (in my mind) but the new âringâ boards should be perfect.
Today I did my first-ever âresistor modâ on my Thorfire S70. It jumped from 4amps to 9amps at the tail. Itâs a real show-stopper now.
I bought a bag with 100 0603 leds âblue mixâ from ebay. I had to try every led before use, it was some effort to sort out the ones with the right colour and brightness.
I prepped a Maglite 2D for an H22A heatsink, mtg2, and a 5A MTNMAX driver. Changed the stock switch over to negative (thanks OL!). Glued the led on and glued the copper positive contact. Phew that was a lot of work.
Just have to pot and install the driver, solder some wires, and mess with that gigantic spring. I suppose Iâll need some killer 26650⌠Maybe 32650âs to power this beast.
What browser are you using? I just checked after I read your post, and it looks like the images are gone if I use Firefox, but ok if I use Chrome. Looking at View Source, the links to the images are still there in both cases (Firefox and Chrome), so I donât know why the images are not showing in Firefox.
EDIT: And in IE, the images are broken icons (which is ironic, since I host the images at onedrive).
On the video there you can see first it turns red.
And well we have ths ugly ultrafire with a red bezel.
Who would put a red bezel there? I would have never bought it, a AE seller thought he could send it instead of the one I ordered that he has run out of.
So I removed everything and put it on the gasflame
When the head was red I took it out and continued with the rest.
And when it looked like it would fit nicely with the red head, turned off the fire.
It now looks much better imho and it was a very nice experiment.
The head actually looks little more red then on the pic.
The tube is really, really nice looking shining bronze, REALLY beautifull! (Hope you picked up on the fact that I really like this color ;))
Does anybody now what causes this color change?
Time, well but does that A- mean it gets hotter B- at a certain temp the change starts and progresses till temp is lowered
A meaning with controlled temp the nice bronze color could be achieved without the risk of pushing it beyond towards the beige and even grey (I would love to have the alu X5/X6 in this shiny bronze color, but not in grey.)
No we were just amazed by the changing color, totally forgot to measure the temp /insert face palm/
I hope somebody knows a little more about this process, I find not a lot googling on the phone now.
Iâm thinking of doing the top portion only of my new TR-J20, it needs some character. What do you guys think about just doing the top part that is flat and says Trustfire, it unscrews from the finned area. Whoa! Or maybe just do the finned area and leave the top and battery section blackâŚ.