missionaryman
Enlightened
This is a work in progress of a beautiful vintage light I saw on eBay and picked up fo $40 delivered to Australia - the delivery was about 2/3 of the price.
It seems since AW made his awesome vintage ROP everyone's getting the bug to modify a classic and I'm no exception.
The light hasn't arrived yet but is on it's way from Wyoming, It's a 3 D cell brass and Steel body.
The reason I singled this one out and paid so much - a 3" diameter head with steel reflector and glass lens.
My first step will be to polish and clean up the body and then to either clean or replace the lens, looking at the pictures either the lens or reflector are very discoloured - don't know where I'll get a lens that big from.
The ideal set up will be 3 x Li Ion D Cells + a Hotdriver and a bi pin socket with a Mica heat shield between the 1185 and the grenades.
If the D Li Ions don't come through then I'll try 9 x 4/3A 4500mah Sanyo NIMH with a smartpack. This method will also give me a place to mount the KIU on the end of the pack. I'm counting on the body being bigger inside than a D cell M@g.
I will also try and reduce switch resistance - I don't really know anything about electronicals :huh: other than if you use lots of copper and make the path of current as simple and clean as possible you minimise resistance.
It may take ages for this light to finish because I'm a bit
and I'm waiting for D Li Ions to surface.
It seems since AW made his awesome vintage ROP everyone's getting the bug to modify a classic and I'm no exception.
The light hasn't arrived yet but is on it's way from Wyoming, It's a 3 D cell brass and Steel body.
The reason I singled this one out and paid so much - a 3" diameter head with steel reflector and glass lens.
My first step will be to polish and clean up the body and then to either clean or replace the lens, looking at the pictures either the lens or reflector are very discoloured - don't know where I'll get a lens that big from.
The ideal set up will be 3 x Li Ion D Cells + a Hotdriver and a bi pin socket with a Mica heat shield between the 1185 and the grenades.
If the D Li Ions don't come through then I'll try 9 x 4/3A 4500mah Sanyo NIMH with a smartpack. This method will also give me a place to mount the KIU on the end of the pack. I'm counting on the body being bigger inside than a D cell M@g.
I will also try and reduce switch resistance - I don't really know anything about electronicals :huh: other than if you use lots of copper and make the path of current as simple and clean as possible you minimise resistance.
It may take ages for this light to finish because I'm a bit
and I'm waiting for D Li Ions to surface.
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