Arc6 Piston

[Saranic]

I have been playing around with my arc 6 for some time and it is "the light" for me to EDC the only thing I have trouble with is the size of my hand and the size of the light. This keeps me from getting 100% satisfaction. Just on a whim I tryed a Piston from an EX10 and the button length greatly improved (to 100% level) my use of this light. but that piston does not fully fit the Arc6. Anyone have the contacts or ablity to build a mod piston that would be a cross between ARC6/McGizom piston and a EX10 piston( also the larger trit size would be a plus)

 

[heckboy]

You've seen what I'm messing around with over in the McGizmo forum with the LunaSol 20. My "thing" is not flashlight electronics, but flashlight ergonomics.

I'd like to work with you to see exactly what the ideal height of button is for you with the Arc6. I'll feed that forward into a design that I'm looking at tooling up for a production version of my button extension, or possibly a replacement piston, for the LunaSol and whatever other lights they would be applicable to.

Do you have the Arc6 guarded tail cap version so you can have a pocket clip but want better access to the PD button? It seems that all the PD actuated lights share similar issues with the button access to greater or lesser degrees.

What do you think? Do you want to fiddle around with this and see if we come up with a solution?

Regards,
HB

 

[RocketTomato]

How about making the piston in two parts? Take the current pistons design as is, and then tap and thread the end the where the tritium vial goes. Then you can design a second piece which screws into the now threaded PD. The advantage is that you can design several different button parts to screw into the piston. You could then have a whole collection of buttons that you screw into your light to customize it. The buttons, would not even need to be metal, you could make one out of a nice piece of wood for example. (Note that you could even add to the design a lock out feature.)

 

[heckboy]

That's were I'm heading in general. Although I don't intend to drill or tap in the existing PD button in order to maintain the H2O tightness of the system and to make the replacement cap easily user installable and reversable. I've got a design for a user installable button, with lockout that I'm having built. I hadn't considered material options but that is certainly an interesting idea as well. I think that user installable is critical, that is no drilling, no tapping required much like replacing a tail cap on a Surefire light.

Hopefully, I'll have a test unit built by the end of next week that we can have a look at.

Later,
HB

 

[Elmie]

Having an adjustable piston would be awesome!

 

[RocketTomato]

I'll feed that forward into a design that I'm looking at tooling up for a production version of my button extension, or possibly a replacement piston, for the LunaSol and whatever other lights they would be applicable to.

Sorry I wasn't clearer. My drill and tap idea was meant more for the replacement piston option that you had mentioned earlier. I agree it would be tough to expect people to drill out and tap their existing pistons and I personally wouldn't want to do it to my original piston.

I look forward to the prototype button extension! Have you thought of a name for it yet?

 

[Saranic]

Sorry HB, I just saw your reply... I kind of stopped checking after I got to work on having a new piston custom built... I will let you know how that works out