karlheinz3
Flashlight Enthusiast




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Back to these sets... I have 140 sets of the EN Nickel plating available and 60 sets of a black nickel plating. Black is misleading but that's what it is called. [The body and head are 6061T6 aluminum. The Clip is 6-4 Ti. Mineral Glass window. Battery size: single CR123 or equivalent. Light Engine not included in the set. McClickie switch in tail of battery pak]


I can see where black can be used as a descriptive term relative to the normal nickel but it isn't black and it isn't uniform and it isn't easy to photograph or describe. I am going to use a number of terms that I think will fit for the population of these and they are not all the same!
Mottled, distressed, milky, bronzed, aged darkened copper, crankcase oil.... There are irregularities in the depth and color of the film and light effects what you see as well as reflections off the surface itself. The machine shop told me they had one plating shop that was doing a new process of black nickel and I said cool, something different yet still functional since the black nickel film is electrically conductive. I didn't know what to expect and now that I look at these, I am not sure how to describe them. Different, funky, unique, aged? :shrug: I know, it's a black nickel finish and beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. For some there may be no beauty here at all for others maybe there is.
The black nickel finish was more expensive than the EN but not as much as I had been led to believe. I think it is an appropriate color for a mule.
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