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RobertMM said:
[...] Just this week though a 6th gen appeared at a local(PHL) buy and sell site for around 88USD. Thinking of getting it as a backup for my modded one.
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I think $88 is a very fair price and I would be tempted as well. I have two that are modded with a 4500K XM-L (which is the perfect upgrade format IMO), plus one mint one as a backup to them.

I eschew IMR's for mine as I don't want to stress the drivers - so they are secondary compared to my (guilt-free-lumen) LiIon lights, but they always reside in day packs & BOB's for what is IMO the ultimate small backup light.
 
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RobertMM said:
Spot on. They know of the demand and they are taking advantage.

Just this week though a 6th gen appeared at a local(PHL) buy and sell site for around 88USD. Thinking of getting it as a backup for my modded one.
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If it were mint condition, I'd buy that in a heartbeat
 
Now I guess I am mistaken, because I haven't seen my L1 for a longtime, But I was under the impression that the gen6 body was "just a body" meaning no driver like the previous gens had. I also "thought" i seen some pics of an EB1T head on a L1 body. Am I loosing my mind? I also thought I seen Malkoff Scout heads on gen6 bodies as well? Someone please set my mind straight if I am all off.. lol!
 
Thanks for clarifying that. I could have sworn my gen 6 cree was just a tube, but obviously not..
 
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teak said:
Now I guess I am mistaken, because I haven't seen my L1 for a longtime, But I was under the impression that the gen6 body was "just a body" meaning no driver like the previous gens had. I also "thought" i seen some pics of an EB1T head on a L1 body. Am I loosing my mind? I also thought I seen Malkoff Scout heads on gen6 bodies as well? Someone please set my mind straight if I am all off.. lol!
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Your not losing your mind. Well not over the EB1T head being mounted. I think I remember that one too. As far as using an L1 body sans the driver that's not to hard to do. I took one of my A2's and made it a franken A2 by removing the in body driver and using a short spacer to extend the 16670 battery inside. Now its got E2C and a P60 bezel with a custom single mode LED. And with the 2 stage TC its got that just right feel. If you know what I mean!

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Yes, I had a 5th gen L1 that I removed the driver used a 16670 and used a VME head with a M60. After I did it I wished I hadn't..lol. I personally thought the old "22 lumen" high was pretty useful and ran forever on a battery..So I sold it off and told myself I will never cut on any generation of L1's..Now I have 2 Gen 6's. One I carry often and the other just sits. The 6th gens were a tad brighter then my 110 lumen E1B's, And since the 2 stage tailcap is my favorite I prefer it over anything else. I am on the hunt for a red L1. I let a friend borrow mine when we were hunting and he lost the damn thing, never to be found again.
m4a1usr said:
Your not losing your mind. Well not over the EB1T head being mounted. I think I remember that one too. As far as using an L1 body sans the driver that's not to hard to do. I took one of my A2's and made it a franken A2 by removing the in body driver and using a short spacer to extend the 16670 battery inside. Now its got E2C and a P60 bezel with a custom single mode LED. And with the 2 stage TC its got that just right feel. If you know what I mean!

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Could someone please elaborate on removing the drive. Are you able to re-install or is this a permanent change?
 
Dingle1911 said:
Could someone please elaborate on removing the drive. Are you able to re-install or is this a permanent change?
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It's difficult but can be a reversible change. Check my older threads for my "Surefire L2 / MCE" build; I show details of extracting the driver module from the L2 body which is the same operation. However, if the light is bored/etc, the driver module loses a reference shelf which it sets up against; my pictures show this pretty well. Hope this helps,
 
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