"MiniWORM" - warm white Copper flashlight with 43mm length!

Hey Guys,

I've posted a picture in "Maratac AAA Ci tarnish progression" thread just a few minutes ago and some of you asked for the tiny flashlight on the right, so I'll introduce my

MiniWORM

I ordered a Lumintop Worm Copper about two months ago. The flashlight was vey cool and copper is an excellent material for building flashlights, because it's heat conductivity is very good. Of course there's a second advantage: The Patina / Tarnish!
Sadly the Worm is about 72mm long and much to big for my keychain, so I thought of modifying it a bit ;-)

Fritz15, a good modder from german TLF, built new battery tube for me. You can see some steps of his work here.
He also removed the cw-LED and changed it to a warm-white XP-G Q2 with 3000K because the warm light fits better to the warm color of the copper.

The result is a 43 Millimeters flashlight. It runs with a 1/3 AAA battery with 160mAh and works well as a keychain light!
I really love my small "MiniWORM" and so I'll share some pictures with you.




















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Thanks for your comments

Greetings from Germany,
Marcel

so its not really available for purchase anywhere?

The cool thing about this is that you could use a mini body with the maratac Cu AAA head too...

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Great work!

Nice work and awesome photos!

that is quite easily one of the greatest mods I've seen. excellent photos, too!

Very nice - like custom work - amazing design. I am really intrigued - did you get a driver in there or is it direct drive?

mohanjude said:

Very nice - like custom work - amazing design. I am really intrigued - did you get a driver in there or is it direct drive?

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I think just the LED was swapped out from the stock worm 2 mode driver...

Marcel,

if Fritz wants to make more I'd be in for at least 2...

Depending on price I would be in for 2, at least 1

Awesome mod, it looks like the two parts were made for each other.
I would buy one too, for sure.

mcbrat said:

Marcel,

if Fritz wants to make more I'd be in for at least 2...

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Rees said:

Depending on price I would be in for 2, at least 1

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fl0t said:

Awesome mod, it looks like the two parts were made for each other.
I would buy one too, for sure.

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Add me to that list and you have at least four of us willing to commit to at least 5 lights now!

kaichu dento said:

Add me to that list and you have at least four of us willing to commit to at least 5 lights now!

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6 lights now... ;-)

Thanks a lot for your positive feedback! I'll check if I can get a few short battery tubes for you!

Maybe you could tell me (either here in the thread or via Private Message) hooch much you'd pay for a small battery tube for the Worm Copper.
Because of the complete handcrafted character, the items will not be so cheap. But you can be sure that the MiniWorm Copper will be cheaper then a Lummi Wee SS.

Any idea of what cost would be shipped to US?

A mini Maratac body would be cool also.

There'll be a shorter battery tube for the Maratac AAA Copper too, if at least 5 persons are interested …

for what's left of the body, the only thing really different for a "Maratac" would be the lanyard ring area, assuming no knurling.

the threads are the same, just the pill is deeper in the head, so (at least mine...) the worm body doesn't quite reach when tightened all the way down into the Maratac head.

But if you do one "Maratac" style I'd be in for one of those also.

So #6 Worm and #2 Maratac … As far as I know it's possible to imitate the knurling, but I'm unsure about that. I'll check and tell ya.