It was an edit , no worries
Sometimes hot rods arenāt coolā¦
10,789 lumens Meteor, accidentally activated. Took only seconds to have smoke billowing off my hip after I fastened my seat belt in the carā¦
Edit: Yes, the flashaholic in me wanted to know why the burns werenāt uniformā¦ the part that isnāt so scorched had the paracord lanyard across the top of the light, itās fused together in that place. 
Welcome to the club Dale, mine tho doesnāt look so bad.
From when the wife first pointed it out til I could get the seatbelt off and the light out, it advanced to making a LOT of smoke, was scared it was about to burst in flames. And this, in our new Toyota Camry. Ugh.
Iām working on fixing it, will be going for a few thousand more lumens by the end of the week if all goes well. 
Continued the F13 MT-G2 build. Opened the reflector hole to fit the big led, machined a 6mm thick copper to put under the led shelf for better heat sinking. And glued it in also as the led.
That smoke sure added to the fear factor, mine also started smoking after few seconds but i had chance to react much faster.
I would like to see that, i was thinking about swapping the leds with XPL HIās but it is a bit pricey to source 12 of them and i donāt know if there will be much improvement over stock without modifying the driver.
Finally found some time to reply
ordered 40mm, 42mm and 43mm, will see how they fit in a month when they arrive.
I have this in different thicknesses, ordered here
but as it turns out my stack and solder skills are not producing satisfactory results, even with my limited tools I can file down to dimensions everything until I am satisfied but when I solder that sandwich something always moves and I end up with ugly looking part with which I am disappointed and that would only be soldering MCPCB and those copper heat sinks, If I add LED and try to solder those 3 parts together that can only end up in disaster.
I could find someone with workshop and proper tools to fabricate me a jig which I could use to align and press all parts together but that would not be cheap thing.
For example guy that made me copper spacers for making S2+ triple aldo fabricated alignment pin that I use to properly solder pill + spacer + noctigon triple boardā¦
There is also a possibility to cut a ring out of the thicker tracing paper and sandwich it between the bezel and glass, I saw that Nitecore is doing this on some models (they use plastic sheet ).
Anyway, thanks for suggestions, I ordered those from ebay, hope they will do the job.
S. Today I made my first lighted tailcap, used blue leds, stock driver on new C8, works well, I am happy haw it turned up 
Nothing yet but have 4 to change over to 22awg wiring. It arrived today. Curious about any current changes, even a slight one.
Eagle eye X7 with xhp50, a ledil iris optic, and a FET driver with tweaked Minidrv. Still not thrilled with the beam pattern but there is no donut. Just realized it is my largest light to date. It may be time to build something much larger.
If the X7 is your largest, you are past due for a monster
L6 would blow him away, huh?
Convoy S2+ , 1.5a buck driver, Lite-On 365nm UV led (LTPL-C034UVH365)
Restroom at work
I have done small triples and a quad. I havenāt had much use for flashlights especially large ones, but I recently bought a house so modding an L6 is now somewhere on the list of things to do.
oh my!!!
Thatās the first pictures like that Iāve seen on BLFā¦ :confounded:
Yep, makes you not want to use it.
Whatās that buck driver you used? Mtn-Max?
sorry to break the train of thought, but anybody know what these arms are called? This looks like something someone assembled themselves, but I canāt figure out what to search to find those arms by themselves.
helping hands ?
third hand ?
I donāt know if this is what you are looking for
edit : Ball joint arms ? bendable arm ?
Yeah I was meaning those particular arms so I could make my own āhelping handsā. āball joint armsā didnāt get me anywhere. gorillapod is the original version, but thatās a brand name really. āSegmented hoseā is a different thing that is sometimes used for the same purpose.
I have seen those legs used on some work lights and mini tripods.
Ignore the priceā¦ but this would be more practical as DIY. The flex hoses are used on machinery as fluid and air flow. They break apart to be lengthened/shortened as needed, hold position well. End ball is pipe thread where mounted to that plate.
Hobby Creek Helping Hands Third Hand Soldering Tool
hope this search helpsā¦
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=milling+coolant+hose&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Amilling+coolant+hose