I must be one of the few people on CPF that can actually make out colors well under sickly blue light... Or some people just blow it way out of proportion.
S30V has rusted first in the real world for me. 154CM has held up a little better. I do work along the gulf coast and spend alot of time on the water and sometimes get soaked with salt water, so my knives see a little more that some people.
You can only have them shipped to you if you are an LEO/Military. If you can find an auto in your locale you can purchase it as a collector, but never carry it.
Re: Surefire E1e - broken lens & tailcap !!!! + Letter to Customer Service
Don't worry Mike I have been waiting on a replacement A2/L1 tailcap for 2 months now and I am in the US. They most likely didn't put it into the system, and I haven't found the time to call again.
You could if you were really intent on doing it modify a P60 in some way to fit inside a Pelican Stealthlite 2400 running on NiMH AA's. Trust me it powers the P60 perfectly I just blinded myself trying.
Well Al on this one he happens to be right, I pulled the window out of my KX2B to find it was lexan. But the only thing to be worried about is it scratching. With the TIR optics behind it the window will never break. I put a pyrex window from a E series head in for good measure though.
No one makes a rock light that uses the Cree XR-E currently there are 1W Luxeon units available from people like Roundeyes on Pirate4x4 but they are pricey.
I don't know how you would water proof them. To attach the LED's to the aluminum you would to use a thermal epoxy. It would probably be...
I would more than likely say it is 4100 bulb lumens, the current consensus on CPF is that about 66% of that actually makes it out the front of the light. So that may be your answer of why it doesn't look like 4100 lumens.