Flashlights and only Flashlights!

The pocket clip from an LD09 works great on the E12, if you want a clip. @ManOfSteel

If you email fenix-store they'll sell one for like $6 shipped.

 

47's ti light (Thanks VOLGRAD!) before and after heat treat coloring







of course the bead blast finish prevented the brilliant blues and purples from forming on the OUTSIDE, but the inside was a trippy visual.......so note to self, heat color only polished Ti things.....lol

 

My main edc light. Always in my pocket.

 

ooooh its polished Ti.....heat color that battery end case with a torch....drool....

 

I'm afraid to do that. I'll probably eff it up. This lil light is 100 lumens so I would hate to break it.

 

just unscrew the head (like your replacing the battery), remove the O ring , and your good to go. Once the battery and head is removed, there is just the battery case end....solid Ti...

tap a nail into a piece of wood, invert the battery end of the light onto it, and get a standard propane plumbing torch...heat up evenly until the colors start forming....when you like the color, stop.

easy. I'll get some pics up

 

I understand what you're saying. I'll just have to look for a plumbing torch. Mine broke and at work it's just a big cutting torch. I think I can turn that one down enough.

 

here we go....keep in mind this is COPPER......titanium is WAY easier to get trippy colors.....

start with your flashlight



remove the LED head, O ring, and battery



your left with pure copper or titanium...note this HEAT coloring will not work with lights that have clicky switches



take that piece, put it on a nail or sumtin...



now apply heat via propane torch.....on ti bodies its REALLY EASY to see the colors being formed,,,,,,copper not so much...





this is what copper looks like after heat coloring......Ti will have mega deep colors.....



after polishing with Autosol





likei said, Titanium colors VERY NICELY, Copper not so much...

Ti after heat coloring. taken from the webz

 

Pardon my limited lumen knowledge about flashlights. I'm still learning about the modular stuff and am drawn to small high output lights.

Malkoff for example, why do they have such a following? What is it that sets their lights apart? It seems that so many lights use the same emitters and power sources which seems to make them different than other products.

 

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more info on the far left Malkoff please.

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no worries....head on over to CANDLEPOWERFORUMS and get your mind blown with info

 

One of the major things that set's them apart is the customer service. It's a small shop, just Gene, his wife, and one other employee as far as I know. If you ever have a question or problem, you can pick up the phone and have a conversation with the guy that built the light. They're insanely overbuilt and the electronics are fully potted. They have modest output, but great run times with no thermal step-down, and the best beam I've ever seen on a flashlight. The transition from the hot spot to the spill is flawless. With the exception of an HDS, I have no desire to own any flashlight but a Malkoff.

It's a Hound Dog XM-L MD4 with a neutral tint. 900 continuous, out the front lumens for about 2 hours on 2 18650 batteries. It's big, but heat is never an issue. It will run until the batteries die and will barely get warm. Although it's meant to be a thrower, it still has great spill.

Gene just released the Hound Dog super, and that thing is insane. I believe that one has 70,000 lux compared to the 20,000 of the Hound Dog XM-L.

 

thank you Sir!

blew my budget this month but a Malkoff and a ElektroLumens are on my 2017 B-Day purchase in march.

 

Everyone needs an MD2 in their life!

 

Latest acquisitions. Fenix, Nitecore and OLight

 

Also have a titanium thrunite AAA and I'll be getting a brass maratac AAA have yet so find a 10440 light that I like or a 10180 bit I'm still lookin. I got some headlamps too but I don't know if those count as torches