Hey all,
I have an Aleph II on a 2X123 body for sale. All parts are bare aluminum.
The head maintains its stock form factor, however, the aluminum lens retaining ring was replaced with a delrin unit. I had stripped the anodizing off of the aluminum retaining ring, but it resulted in some strange reflections off of the aluminum, and I completely screwed it up trying to get rid of the reflections. I went with delrin because it is tough and I didn't want the reflections.
As mentioned, the body is a 2X123 body that has been drilled and tapped for a stainless steel pocket clip. Loctite was used to seal and secure the screws.
The tail cap was a standard McE2S tail cap, which I stripped and turned down to a flat top form factor. I topped the switch off with a ring of glow powder impregnated epoxy. The module is still captured and will not fall out when the tail cap is removed. There is one draw back though. The threaded accessory hole in the top portion of the switch was rather deep and I wasn't comfortable taking that much material off to get rid of it. The result is that you can see it, although it is filled with epoxy. I tried to capture it in the pic below.
I haven't built the light engine for it yet, but I'm thinking that I might go with a DownBoy500 for good brightness (in excess of 1000 lux) and really good runtime. I'm figuring that it should be 3.5 to 4 hours in regulation. The luxeon will be a TXOJ. Of course the buyer could specify his own choices in a light engine.
Here are the pics...
And it stands on end...
***EDIT***
Hey guys,
I had a mention that it would be cool if the delrin ring was made to glow. I couldn't figure a way of getting enough glow material on the delrin ring to really make it glow so this is what I did.
I used a film cannister to make a cylinder of pure glow powder impregnated epoxy. From this cylinder, I turned new lens retaining rings that really glow. I don't know how tough this stuff is, but I can say that when I chucked the cylinder in the lathe to turn it, the jaws didn't even leave a mark on the epoxy. I had it tight in a 5" chuck too.
Here's the new pics...
I'm asking $200 for the light as shown to include a light engine of your choice to be based on a Lux III emitter. I currently have TXOJ, TX1J, TWOK, and TWAK. The price also includes Priority shipping in the CONUS. Global Priority is $5 more.
If you want the light, post with an "I'll take it," and PM me for payment details.
If you would like to make an offer on the light, please feel free to do so by PM.
Thanks for looking,
I have an Aleph II on a 2X123 body for sale. All parts are bare aluminum.
The head maintains its stock form factor, however, the aluminum lens retaining ring was replaced with a delrin unit. I had stripped the anodizing off of the aluminum retaining ring, but it resulted in some strange reflections off of the aluminum, and I completely screwed it up trying to get rid of the reflections. I went with delrin because it is tough and I didn't want the reflections.
As mentioned, the body is a 2X123 body that has been drilled and tapped for a stainless steel pocket clip. Loctite was used to seal and secure the screws.
The tail cap was a standard McE2S tail cap, which I stripped and turned down to a flat top form factor. I topped the switch off with a ring of glow powder impregnated epoxy. The module is still captured and will not fall out when the tail cap is removed. There is one draw back though. The threaded accessory hole in the top portion of the switch was rather deep and I wasn't comfortable taking that much material off to get rid of it. The result is that you can see it, although it is filled with epoxy. I tried to capture it in the pic below.
I haven't built the light engine for it yet, but I'm thinking that I might go with a DownBoy500 for good brightness (in excess of 1000 lux) and really good runtime. I'm figuring that it should be 3.5 to 4 hours in regulation. The luxeon will be a TXOJ. Of course the buyer could specify his own choices in a light engine.
Here are the pics...
And it stands on end...
***EDIT***
Hey guys,
I had a mention that it would be cool if the delrin ring was made to glow. I couldn't figure a way of getting enough glow material on the delrin ring to really make it glow so this is what I did.
I used a film cannister to make a cylinder of pure glow powder impregnated epoxy. From this cylinder, I turned new lens retaining rings that really glow. I don't know how tough this stuff is, but I can say that when I chucked the cylinder in the lathe to turn it, the jaws didn't even leave a mark on the epoxy. I had it tight in a 5" chuck too.
Here's the new pics...
I'm asking $200 for the light as shown to include a light engine of your choice to be based on a Lux III emitter. I currently have TXOJ, TX1J, TWOK, and TWAK. The price also includes Priority shipping in the CONUS. Global Priority is $5 more.
If you want the light, post with an "I'll take it," and PM me for payment details.
If you would like to make an offer on the light, please feel free to do so by PM.
Thanks for looking,
