Cheap 3AA led flashlights on eBay. Moddable?

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well, here is a review of the stock light from craigs site...

it recieved a rating of "0 stars, **** on it" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowlaugh.gif

at that price, it might be alright to throw at urinals /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

*edit* dangit you big ent! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/twak.gif
 
A friend of mine got one last fall and wasn't happy with it. He asked me if I could put a LS in it. It's not to hard to do if you have a Dremel tool with a HSS router bit.

The leds are held in with a rolled bezel, file this down and the led slug can be pushed out from the back. Saw offthe contact end to use in the mod. Ream out the front part to take a copper tube coupler (the one that is about 1in outside diameter). Use an LS Star and the LS optics. The star should fit in the reamed hole and the copper coupler will hold it in. the optics fit nicely in the coupler. Use the old contact piece to solder the leads and the optional resistor and carefuly epoxy the whole thing together. I made a split ring to hold the optic in while the epoxy set and just left it there. Worked OK, even put a Kroll switch on it.

Will post pics when he gets home and I can get it from him..
 
Thanks for the info. I had planned on trashing the stock LED's anyways. I just thought it was a readily avalible 3AA (for dd/resistance) aluminum flashlight.
whiskypapa3: yes pics would be nice if you could post em.

How hard would it be to swap out the led's for some better one's? Maybe some high output UV ones would be interesting..
 
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