Sgt. LED
Flashaholic
I took the failed Unique LongGunLight and made myself something usefull!
I was looking at how similar the LGL bezel was to photo's of the Surefire M3 bezel and thought I would take a gamble. I looked around the Marketplace for a few days and sure enough I found one for pretty cheap.
As soon as the M3 bezel arrived I tossed it into a pan bezel down with about 3 inches of water in it. After it boiled for about 4 minutes I took it out and put the hex nut on the rear of it to use. I quickly wrapped a belt around it and put it into a large pipe wrench to hold it still. On the other end I stuck one of those wooden 12 inch paint roller handles between the crennelations (it was just the right size around and wouldn't harm the finish) and pushed down and twisted hard. There was a nasty grating sound and off she came! No HA damage at all.
When I got it apart I saw how well everything fit and was worried for a second! Instead of the new reflector butting up against the stock foam ring used as a shock absorber I found the same foam provided the perfect fit if placed around the reflector. There ended up being about 1.2mm difference in diameter (guessing here) between the 2. Using the stock foam ring it takes effort to move the drop-in at all so no rattle, no missalignment. Even though it is a little smaller around the new one is alot deeper!
The drop-in is a Q5 with an OP reflector that can run up to 15V and is slightly brighter and throws better than my M60 drop in running in a 2X18650 leef body. Due to the larger diameter that D26's and deeper reflector than the stock M3 it throws pretty well but since it is a true OP reflector purpose built throwers like MRV's out-do it handily. This fellow has quite a bright spill, very usefull indeed. I don't know the drive level so I can't do the math for runtime estimates. The pill comes out with no problem so down the road I can easily swap emitters come upgrade time.:thumbsup:
I don't have an M3 or an M4 body to use with it so I did the only thing I could........... Yep the dreaded Sea Cucumber! Eventually I will find the proper body it deserves cheap on the marketplace but till then I am running it on 2X18650's in the M6 body. Terrible I know..... This thing fits and runs like it was made for it though! I do wonder if it would be ok to run it on the factory M6 battery holder? How much juice does that thing put out with those 6 batteries anyway? :thinking:
I took a chance and it worked like a charm, boy did I get lucky. Any D36 lamp or LED will easily fit into this head!
I will take some beamshots and update the thread with them later on. After all that's what everyone likes looking at around here!
:shakehead
I was looking at how similar the LGL bezel was to photo's of the Surefire M3 bezel and thought I would take a gamble. I looked around the Marketplace for a few days and sure enough I found one for pretty cheap.
As soon as the M3 bezel arrived I tossed it into a pan bezel down with about 3 inches of water in it. After it boiled for about 4 minutes I took it out and put the hex nut on the rear of it to use. I quickly wrapped a belt around it and put it into a large pipe wrench to hold it still. On the other end I stuck one of those wooden 12 inch paint roller handles between the crennelations (it was just the right size around and wouldn't harm the finish) and pushed down and twisted hard. There was a nasty grating sound and off she came! No HA damage at all.
When I got it apart I saw how well everything fit and was worried for a second! Instead of the new reflector butting up against the stock foam ring used as a shock absorber I found the same foam provided the perfect fit if placed around the reflector. There ended up being about 1.2mm difference in diameter (guessing here) between the 2. Using the stock foam ring it takes effort to move the drop-in at all so no rattle, no missalignment. Even though it is a little smaller around the new one is alot deeper!
The drop-in is a Q5 with an OP reflector that can run up to 15V and is slightly brighter and throws better than my M60 drop in running in a 2X18650 leef body. Due to the larger diameter that D26's and deeper reflector than the stock M3 it throws pretty well but since it is a true OP reflector purpose built throwers like MRV's out-do it handily. This fellow has quite a bright spill, very usefull indeed. I don't know the drive level so I can't do the math for runtime estimates. The pill comes out with no problem so down the road I can easily swap emitters come upgrade time.:thumbsup:
I don't have an M3 or an M4 body to use with it so I did the only thing I could........... Yep the dreaded Sea Cucumber! Eventually I will find the proper body it deserves cheap on the marketplace but till then I am running it on 2X18650's in the M6 body. Terrible I know..... This thing fits and runs like it was made for it though! I do wonder if it would be ok to run it on the factory M6 battery holder? How much juice does that thing put out with those 6 batteries anyway? :thinking:
I took a chance and it worked like a charm, boy did I get lucky. Any D36 lamp or LED will easily fit into this head!
I will take some beamshots and update the thread with them later on. After all that's what everyone likes looking at around here!
:shakehead
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and the beamshots!
