Burnt E2e KL1 -- RESTORATION COMPLETED!!!!!

[Crenshaw]

do link us once surefire puts this story up...

Crenshaw

 

[skillet]

Ok, folks..

I got the story off to Surefire today.. I'm a terrible writer and probably didn't do the tale justice..

I sent in two.. One in regard to this thread and another about a M6 getting my children and I home safely on a cold, wet, foggy night when the alternator went out on the car..

Gordon

I'll keep you'all updated...
Thanks!!

 

[skillet]

Well, it's been about a year since this scenario unfolded and my son's light has bee stored away waiting......

Thanks to silentstorm16, were gonna put this soldier back into duty and I thought you'all might like a few pictures of "his" new lease on life..

 

[Roger Sully]

:rock: I can't believe that this thing came back to life ! Nice Job.

What ever happened with Surefire? Did they print the story or offer to replace or anything?

 

[Monocrom]

Nice!

E2E body and tailcap w/ E2DL head. :twothumbs

 

[Illum]

Suddenly it just became clear to me how wine lights are made
PK probably made the same mistake but turned out to be a color he found profitable to sell

 

[DM51]

Very good to see this thread again - one of the all-time great CPF rescue jobs.

 

[skillet]

Yeah.. I even relinquished use back to my son (the original user).. I just told him he owed me for a E2DL head...

 

[DimeRazorback]

What a great resurrection!

Now it can start a new life!

 

[greenLED]

Yeah.. I even relinquished use back to my son (the original user).. I just told him he owed me for a E2DL head...

I thought you had paid somebody to machine you a bottom section of the burnt head and rebuilt it with a new circuit, optics, and LED.

 

[skillet]

I had run a few things around.. but nothing ever developed that we followed through.. So.. we just waited, let him use a 6P.. really we had forgotten about it for a while.. Stored safely in the parts bins.. Then a great deal came up on a used head.. I had already bought the E2DL head to use on a single cell body... but I wasn't happy with it.. so my son gets the head and here we go.... I told him this morning on the way to school it had been about a year since it went missing and then we found it.. He packed it today for the first time.. Fits the pocket a little better than the 6P.. Mom had been complaining about the damage it was causing his jeans.. but come on... that's just acceptable collateral damage in the life a flashaholic...

 

[KevinL]

Just incredible. The phoenix rises from the ashes like you wouldn't believe.

I would pack him off with a cheap Fenix and keep that SF for myself if I were you

Stumbled across your thread while searching for KL3 disassembly instructions. This is probably not quite the disassembly I will be trying though!

 

[Cascade Range]

Great thread, really enjoyed the job you did on it. I'm sure it will stay in the family for years to come and make a fine story to tell others on those stormy evenings when the power goes out and all are huddled around "the light."

 

[nick-nack]

Amazing job at restoring!

Knowing me I would of just been very upset and thrown it out as a lost cause.

 

[Xacto]

Many have told you already what a great job you did with the light. I second that.

Let me tell you something else.... you are a great dad!
Giving your son such a fine light, not reprimanding him for loosing it, loaning him a 6P, resurrecting this light and giving it back to him - tell him he should feel lucky for having such a great, flashaholic dad!


Cheers
Thorsten

 

[ampdude]

That is so cool that you were able to restore it so well. I have a few lights with character, but not that much character!

 

[red_hackle]

What a great thread/project/story... makes me want to toss one of my own lights into a fire!

 

[daf3m]

Nice work there..!And of course a huge bravo..!Your son is very lucky to own this flashlight..!

 

[Toohotruk]

What a great thread/project/story... makes me want to toss one of my own lights into a fire!

Do it...Do it...DO IT!!! Then post pics! :devil:

 

[KevinL]

What a great thread/project/story... makes me want to toss one of my own lights into a fire!

Remove the innards first!