Captain Spaulding
Enlightened
I just had an experience with one of my Cerakoted lights that I would like to share.
Now I know that Cerakote has been a debated topic, and I am not trying to start another fight on here. I also am not endorsing or shilling for any particular shop. In fact, this particular cerakote job was done by a personal friend that does not and will not Cerakote any lights for anybody on this forum. To try not to get this thread closed, or turned into another fight, I please ask that nobody posts anything thats going to start a fight. Just a "my experience thread". Nothing more.
Now with that out of the way, here we go.
I have a white Cerakoted 6P body and I wanted to stuff a 3.6v - 6v dropin it it, so of course I needed to have it bored to fit an 18650. Me being the champagne taste, beer budget kind of flashaholic, I asked another friend to bore it out. This guy is a professional machinist, but he has never bored a light. I basicly gave him the body and an 18650 and told him to "make it fit". He said no problem, and he would even do it for free. (just my price!)
So I go to pick up the body yesterday and upon meeting him, he unwrapped it from the bubble wrap pouch to show me a "nick". I was thinking "oh great, he scratched my Cerakote up". He handed it to me and then pointed to a tiny tiny little nick right on the edge of where the flat part meets the knurling. He then proceeded to tell me that "whatver that coating is, its strong as hell".
While examining this tiny nick, he tells me that he got ready to bore it and was worried about scratching the white coating so he "chucked it up lightly" and then spun it. He said that he then started to bore it and the body slipped within the chuck and at the speed of about 3,000 RPMs, the body thrashed about inside the grip of the chuck for a few seconds before he stopped the machine.
He said he was amazed that it wasnt beat up badly. After being knocked around inside a loose chuck, it came out pretty much unscathed. He was blown away and said he has never heard of Cerakote or seen anything like it that would withstand that kind of beating.
I knew I was taking a bit of a risk as Im sure the "correct" way to do it is to bore it first, then coat it, but the price was worth the risk and I am happy to say that it all worked out great! :thumbsup:
The end.
Now I know that Cerakote has been a debated topic, and I am not trying to start another fight on here. I also am not endorsing or shilling for any particular shop. In fact, this particular cerakote job was done by a personal friend that does not and will not Cerakote any lights for anybody on this forum. To try not to get this thread closed, or turned into another fight, I please ask that nobody posts anything thats going to start a fight. Just a "my experience thread". Nothing more.
Now with that out of the way, here we go.
I have a white Cerakoted 6P body and I wanted to stuff a 3.6v - 6v dropin it it, so of course I needed to have it bored to fit an 18650. Me being the champagne taste, beer budget kind of flashaholic, I asked another friend to bore it out. This guy is a professional machinist, but he has never bored a light. I basicly gave him the body and an 18650 and told him to "make it fit". He said no problem, and he would even do it for free. (just my price!)
So I go to pick up the body yesterday and upon meeting him, he unwrapped it from the bubble wrap pouch to show me a "nick". I was thinking "oh great, he scratched my Cerakote up". He handed it to me and then pointed to a tiny tiny little nick right on the edge of where the flat part meets the knurling. He then proceeded to tell me that "whatver that coating is, its strong as hell".
While examining this tiny nick, he tells me that he got ready to bore it and was worried about scratching the white coating so he "chucked it up lightly" and then spun it. He said that he then started to bore it and the body slipped within the chuck and at the speed of about 3,000 RPMs, the body thrashed about inside the grip of the chuck for a few seconds before he stopped the machine.
He said he was amazed that it wasnt beat up badly. After being knocked around inside a loose chuck, it came out pretty much unscathed. He was blown away and said he has never heard of Cerakote or seen anything like it that would withstand that kind of beating.
I knew I was taking a bit of a risk as Im sure the "correct" way to do it is to bore it first, then coat it, but the price was worth the risk and I am happy to say that it all worked out great! :thumbsup:
The end.