Solscud007
Flashlight Enthusiast
Re: Post Your RARE/UNUSUAL SUREFIRES:
got pics? you cant make a cool post like that and not show pics haha
got pics? you cant make a cool post like that and not show pics haha
:welcome:hi all,
i've got a m600a-tan that is sealed in the package. the serial number is covered by a white line. anyone know about them? how rare are they? any help would be greatly appreciated.
They are only needed for the most niche of applications so SureFire no longer make them as a production item.Not a flashlight, but sure wish they still made these!
All it is is two CR123As shrinkwrapped together, right?Not a flashlight, but sure wish they still made these!
They are only needed for the most niche of applications so SureFire no longer make them as a production item.
All it is is two CR123As shrinkwrapped together, right?
size15 said:They are only needed for the most niche of applications so SureFire no longer make them as a production item.
What exactly do you mean by "busted", Seiko? Is there something breaking? Just curious.... using 123's in my weapons lights I have busted about 6 of the heads off of 123's.
What exactly do you mean by "busted", Seiko? Is there something breaking? Just curious.
Not a flashlight, but sure wish they still made these!
Bummer. Never a good thing when lights & batteries break like that. I guess the tolerances were different back then for those particular lights?The button on the head of the rear battery will break off. Not all the way just separates from the body of the battery. Also had one of the rear battery punch through the bottom of the front one. This is since they stopped making the 223 in 2002ish.
It is to the point where I take the batteries and the light assembly off the gun (870 and 1187) when I shoot it other then low light drills.
Given the low cost of SF123A batteries compared to the DL123A batteries back before SureFire introduced the concept of low cost OEM branded CR123A's, the batteries in WeaponLights can be and are changed more often.I thought all the 6v weaponslights needed those?
It started out as a collaboration with Surefire. Surefire went ahead and made the proposed number of "serialized" M2s there were something around 600 supposed to be made for a limited edition set.
making that many lights is easy work for SF. Just take a select 600 out of the normal production line of M2s and set the laser engraver to new parameters. Such as adding the "Strider" logo and new serial sequence "SF001 and up"
Strider did make some knives. as far as I can tell somewhere around 270+ lights. I have yet to see a knife set match above #300 range. I have seen set #274 well documented in a FAQ online and set #275 is still for sale in the marketplace.
Maybe the knife sets were not selling as well as hoped so they cancelled the knives. Im sure it takes a LOT longer to make strider knives. I doubt these are mass produced as quickly as SF makes M2s. So the rest of the lights, somewhere in the 300+ range are sold off to random distributors.
The idea that the lights came with the SW02 was an idea I gathered from the texts in the catalogs. However the support that the lights actually did come with the SW02 is spotty at best. I have seen more lights with out the SW02 than with them. Im sure the first 100 or so came with the tailcap. Mine did not and mine is #72. However I got mine used and who knows, the previous owner might have kept or lost the SW02.