Any D36 heads for Surefire?

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Greetings all! Is there any D36 bezels (surefire and aftermarket) for a C2 Centurion?
Or even flashlights with compatible threads that I can cannibalize?
Is there a reason to go to D36 head lambs (axploiting the LF offerings) instead of going to straight to the Turbohead modules?
Thanks, kostas
 
Have you googled D36? I did (CPF only at top of each CPF page), and did not see any mention that the D36 would fit a Surefire. Isn't the D36 head significantly smaller than a Surefire Turbohead? You want the added bulk of a Surefire Turbohead setup?

Bill
 
Greetings all! Is there any D36 bezels (surefire and aftermarket) for a C2 Centurion?
Or even flashlights with compatible threads that I can cannibalize?
Is there a reason to go to D36 head lambs (axploiting the LF offerings) instead of going to straight to the Turbohead modules?
Thanks, kostas

I've looked and haven't found anything. I'd love to be proven wrong. Have you emailed Lumens Factory to ask? Surely they would have known before designing the lamp assemblies. On their website, they list only the Pila and Wolf-Eyes.

In wolf-eyes, you can buy the 6M/9D bezel for $13, but it doesn't look Surefire "C" compatible. You can also get the M90 bezel. I have the M90, and the body is pretty wide at the bezel end.

Plus, there is the fact that you could buy an entire wolf-eyes flashlight for about what a Surefire KT costs new :huh:
 
A G&P turbo-bezel is about a 36mm IIRC and most of them will screw on to standard SF "C" style head threads... however, the lamp assembly itself will probably NOT exchange with Wolf-Eyes/Lumen-Factory D36s, so you are stuck with the G&P bulb, which on an X9, is pretty much a standard output assembly, around 1.2A.

at one time cabellas had a series of re-badged G&P xenon lights called the "XPG series"... and a series of turbo bezels for them sold separately... they seem to have been taken off the shelf in favor of their new LED series,. if they still had em it would be a way to go somewhere and test fit it before you bought it.
 
now big reason to go this uncertain route unless I *know* that I will get better through.

Thanks for the heads up, kostas
 
The G&P-made miniturbo head is 41mm wide. The G&P miniturbo reflector is 39mm wide and very deep. Each will fit the other and no other reflector or head. But the setup will fit any Surefire P-compatible body.

The head and lamp assembly were sold by G&P, Digilight USA, LEDWave, Cabellas, and maybe one or two other brands. They are interchangeable.

The most common voltage was 9V (nominal), which works well with two lithium-ions. A 12V version was also made. Maybe a 6V, too. In any event, in all such lamp assemblies the bulb can be unscrewed (and unfocused), so you can mix and match bulbs and reflectors. However, the deep 39mm reflector appears to require a longer filament. Lego was hit-or-miss; "high-pressure" bulbs seemed to have the right length. If a bulb was too short, the lamp would never focus.

I have two such heads that I no longer use. One may be missing the glass, but somewhere I've posted a thread about the exact camera-lens filter size needed to replace it. (I've done so once or twice.) If you can't find a head for sale, I'll sell you a compete head and D39 reflector assembly and two or three 9V bulbs for $30 shipped (PayPal), shipped to Greece.
 
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