Purchased the tactical head via ebay, 6P body (CPFmarketplace) and Z49 (CPFmarketplace). Added a cheap but awesome chinese drop in and I thought I had my new work light.
After about.... mmmmmm 45 minutes, I decided to lightly gring down all the knurling on the body and tailcap to have a black/silver contrast. Once done, I was not impressed and really didn't care for it one bit. Not that it looked bad, because I am very patient and took my time ensuring it would look great and if you like the black/silver look, it was amazing. It's just that I didn't care for the look once I had done the grinding.
Step 2 involved my heading to Canadian Tire and picking up a jar of aluminium wheel/mag polish. Got home, broke out the dremel with a buffing wheel and went to work buffing the grinded down knurling. As it tirns out, I did not like the way it looked either once I was done (too much black between the checkers on the knurling at this point). So again, I switched ends on the dremel and took the knurling down even more on the body and tail cap. Then another dremel end change and again, buffing time.... *buff* *buff* *buff* getting tired at this point. Very tedious with a 1 inch buffing wheel. At this point I stopped.
Go ahead, have a
:toilet: or :sleepy: break... lots more to go
Step 3/day3 - I head to the local Princess Auto and purchase an 8 inch buffing wheel for my bench grinder. Once back at home, I decided to remove even more of the black coating. For this, I decided to use a wire wheel on the dremel. Well I must say... if you do slow and are patient, it removes the paint beautifully and efficiently. One HUGE downfall though, the wire score/gouge the aluminium very easily. With this I was not impressed.
Step 4 - Getting the bench grinder going and buffing the light. I took the buffing wheel and placed large amounts of buffing compound on it and went to work. *SUPER BUFF* *SUPER BUFF* *SUPER BUFF* :wow: does that shine the aluminium quick! So long as there is compound, it does an amazing job. No compound, only heat is created and the body is too hot to hold. This process took me about 25 minutes to do. I was nowl ooking at my creation and was impressed, super impressed in fact because of what I had created on my own. I was not impressed with the fact that because the body became a little too hot at one point, my grip released and the body got jammed in the bench grinder. No biggy, more compound and POOF, looks great once again. So now I am sitting looking at my creation once more and really dislike that there is any black finish at all with all the polished. Now I get out the wire wheel (yes, the gouger) and remove ALL the fisnish.
Step 5 - the final process. I buff the entire light, body, tail and even the head. With patience, the gouging/scoring comes right out.
Hope you like it...
Pre Step 5
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/supawabb/IMG_0441.jpg
Step 5 complete
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/supawabb/IMG_0443.jpg
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/supawabb/IMG_0445.jpg
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/supawabb/IMG_0446.jpg
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/supawabb/IMG_0448.jpg
I look forward to doing more in the future. Up next is my 3D Malkoff Mag
Over sized images removed
After about.... mmmmmm 45 minutes, I decided to lightly gring down all the knurling on the body and tailcap to have a black/silver contrast. Once done, I was not impressed and really didn't care for it one bit. Not that it looked bad, because I am very patient and took my time ensuring it would look great and if you like the black/silver look, it was amazing. It's just that I didn't care for the look once I had done the grinding.
Step 2 involved my heading to Canadian Tire and picking up a jar of aluminium wheel/mag polish. Got home, broke out the dremel with a buffing wheel and went to work buffing the grinded down knurling. As it tirns out, I did not like the way it looked either once I was done (too much black between the checkers on the knurling at this point). So again, I switched ends on the dremel and took the knurling down even more on the body and tail cap. Then another dremel end change and again, buffing time.... *buff* *buff* *buff* getting tired at this point. Very tedious with a 1 inch buffing wheel. At this point I stopped.
Go ahead, have a
:toilet: or :sleepy: break... lots more to goStep 3/day3 - I head to the local Princess Auto and purchase an 8 inch buffing wheel for my bench grinder. Once back at home, I decided to remove even more of the black coating. For this, I decided to use a wire wheel on the dremel. Well I must say... if you do slow and are patient, it removes the paint beautifully and efficiently. One HUGE downfall though, the wire score/gouge the aluminium very easily. With this I was not impressed.
Step 4 - Getting the bench grinder going and buffing the light. I took the buffing wheel and placed large amounts of buffing compound on it and went to work. *SUPER BUFF* *SUPER BUFF* *SUPER BUFF* :wow: does that shine the aluminium quick! So long as there is compound, it does an amazing job. No compound, only heat is created and the body is too hot to hold. This process took me about 25 minutes to do. I was nowl ooking at my creation and was impressed, super impressed in fact because of what I had created on my own. I was not impressed with the fact that because the body became a little too hot at one point, my grip released and the body got jammed in the bench grinder. No biggy, more compound and POOF, looks great once again. So now I am sitting looking at my creation once more and really dislike that there is any black finish at all with all the polished. Now I get out the wire wheel (yes, the gouger) and remove ALL the fisnish.
Step 5 - the final process. I buff the entire light, body, tail and even the head. With patience, the gouging/scoring comes right out.
Hope you like it...
Pre Step 5
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/supawabb/IMG_0441.jpg
Step 5 complete
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/supawabb/IMG_0443.jpg
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/supawabb/IMG_0445.jpg
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/supawabb/IMG_0446.jpg
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/supawabb/IMG_0448.jpg
I look forward to doing more in the future. Up next is my 3D Malkoff Mag
Over sized images removed
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Verrrrrrryyy cool, my friend. If I could get one like that, I know what my next SF would be!!!
:thumbsup:
