flashlightpoor
Newly Enlightened
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2006
- Messages
- 70
I should first state that I am not a modder. I want to be, I have the skills, but said skills do not pay the bills. I have tried twice and failed twice. First an inova X5 and now an inova X03. Granted these are not the friendliest first and second mods, but apparently I like destroying my favorite lights.
I have followed others who used the freezer pop method, and in the end I did succeed in taking the light apart.
However, those with a keen eye may notice there's an extra piece by the tail cap. This was my first mistake.
A few months ago I bored out a number of my lights to accept protected 181650s, including this one. while the others went smoothly this one required me to leave very little material where the threads were. I rationalized that while I really was making the wall too thin, these threads are never going to see any stress. That is until I tried to freeze pop the front off.
yes those are the threads that I removed from inside the cap. The ice cracked them right off. Brilliant.
Well now I didn't have any way to seal the light to finish the freeze pop. I tried to hammer a small diameter pipe into the light. this is what I did with the X5, and it worked perfectly. Only the X5 has an entirely metal slug for the front office. the X03 has a soft black gooey substance on the back of the led/board/heat sink. wouldn't budge and I destroyed the little springy thing.
Finally, I used a chisel-- figuring what more damage could I do?
Amazingly, I took it off with the chisel in about 8 strikes, without so much as scratching the metal.
Maybe I will find new an innovative ways to destroy my remaining inova T2?
I have followed others who used the freezer pop method, and in the end I did succeed in taking the light apart.
However, those with a keen eye may notice there's an extra piece by the tail cap. This was my first mistake.
A few months ago I bored out a number of my lights to accept protected 181650s, including this one. while the others went smoothly this one required me to leave very little material where the threads were. I rationalized that while I really was making the wall too thin, these threads are never going to see any stress. That is until I tried to freeze pop the front off.
yes those are the threads that I removed from inside the cap. The ice cracked them right off. Brilliant.
Well now I didn't have any way to seal the light to finish the freeze pop. I tried to hammer a small diameter pipe into the light. this is what I did with the X5, and it worked perfectly. Only the X5 has an entirely metal slug for the front office. the X03 has a soft black gooey substance on the back of the led/board/heat sink. wouldn't budge and I destroyed the little springy thing.
Finally, I used a chisel-- figuring what more damage could I do?
Amazingly, I took it off with the chisel in about 8 strikes, without so much as scratching the metal.
Maybe I will find new an innovative ways to destroy my remaining inova T2?
