Sold/Expired FOUND: HDS 18650 tube

Title says it all, lookin to buy a HDS 18650 tube. (Not to be confused with the 2 x 123 tube!)

Thanks for lookin, and PM me if ya have one you wanna sell. Payment will be made by cash PP.

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What.....you mean this?




WP

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Exactly, thanks for the pic WP!

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Someone should just machine a bunch of these HDS tubes.

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That is doable, just use the the switch from your existing tube. The only sticking point will be the internal contact spring

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If someone does, I'm all over it. I can't imagine how long it must run on high w/ an 18650. Okay it'll probably be about 4x, but man, that's awesome.

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Lets take this to another thread. I'm sorry I crapped in your PSM.

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Same here PSM, i have 2 of these on 2 seperate lights. Sorry, just cannot part with them

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I got one of the last of these that Lighthound had. That was on Dec 30th, and it was $90 plus S&H which was a lot, but in retrospect it was worth it. You get about four times the run-time, and of course it's free lumens.

If you find one now, I think you'd have to pay quite a lot more $$$ - people who have them don't want to part with them now they know the upcoming HDS line won't be compatible.

Someone could make a tidy business turning out these 18650 tubes (and the 2x123 ones). I'm sure a lot of HDS owners would go for them.

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DM51 said:

If you find one now, I think you'd have to pay quite a lot more $$$ - people who have them don't want to part with them now they know the upcoming HDS line won't be compatible.

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I think it would be the opposite. If the upcoming HDS line was compatible with the 18650 tube, the demand for this tube would increase. So I don't think that this should have a bearing on the price....in fact it may go the other way as people unload their old HDS equipment to make way for the new.

WP

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The upcoming line will have its own tubes. People didn't hurry to buy old tubes because they figured more would be made for the new line. Now they know the new ones won't fit the existing lights, so what exists now is all there's going to be – and there aren't enough to satisfy demand.

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I see a lot of chattin but no offfers, bump! :laughing:

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I haven't one and I don't want to sell it to you.. hahahaha

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I would purhase one.

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Bump To The Top.....

Found one! Thanks CPF!

I have two of the tubes and I am willing to part with one of them... but I have already offered it to Tebore with a 10day decision period still remaining. But if he decides that he doesn't want it and you haven't found one by then we can start some deal making! It is based in Australia at the moment though!

I must adimt I ended up with two by accident and neither of them have seen any time on my HDS's... I tend to like the small form factor & just carry several extra RC123's on me if its going to be an epic adventure!

Just thought I would give you some (distant) hope

Cheers Harvey

EDIT: That will teach me to answer the phone mid-post! It looks like Tebore will be the new owner as well!