Mr Ted Bear
Flashlight Enthusiast
ITS A GO!!!!
HOW TO ORDER
pay-pal, credit card(e-mail me for details), money order or check. for money order or check, please e-mail me your address and quantity desired. also, when emailing, pleae include you CPF screen name
OK, if you know the history of this mod, you know that I have been working the CMG head with hand tools (too lazy to fetch my drill press from storage). Anyways, originally I didn't think there was enough material in the CMG head to do internal threads, so I had cut the treaded portion of the ARC battery compartment to make a lock ring band.
Over the weekend, I called Peter and asked him if it would be possible to get just the battery compartment threaded, but he didn't sound too kean on the idea...
This turned out to be a good thing, because it force me to figure out another solution to the problem....
Solution found!!! I cut apart a CMG head, and found that if I were really careful, that there is enought material to do internal threads but the depth alignnment was just slighty off. Well, an o-ring works just great as a spacer AND also works as a seal between the ARC head and the CMG adapter. The only problem that remains is the threading of the CMG head, which is being done by a local machine shop as I type.
So here is the bottom line..
$105 for 100 GMC heads
$200 Machine shop
$ 15 Drill
$ 20 for 100 o-rings
$335 Total expense
IF I sell 50 pieces at $6 + $1 (S&h), I only lose $35 + 1 canabalized arc + 1 canbalized infinity.
The "adapter kit" will consist of the CMG head, an o-ring, and a #6 washer(for the bottom of the battery oompartment)
That's it
The CMG heads arrived today. and I started to work on making the adapters. I have actually completed one by hand. It is a reversible mod, but not waterproof... at least at this time
In actual use, it is not a simple procedure of screwing the ARC head into the adapter, and then the adapter into the Infinity battery compartment.
What I found out when hallowing out the CMG head, is that there isn't quite eought "meat"/material to do the internal threads. So instead of threading the head, I came up with a lock-nut that holds the ARC head inplace inside the CMG head.
Now that I have practiced "installing" the ARC head into the CMG head, and getting the locknut in place, it takes about 2 minutes versus screw head on directly, 10 seconds.
The other issue is that the lenght is slightly off, which I easily fixed by droping a #6 washer into the battery comparment
ITS A GO!!!!
web page
HOW TO ORDER
pay-pal, credit card(e-mail me for details), money order or check. for money order or check, please e-mail me your address and quantity desired. also, when emailing, pleae include you CPF screen name
OK, if you know the history of this mod, you know that I have been working the CMG head with hand tools (too lazy to fetch my drill press from storage). Anyways, originally I didn't think there was enough material in the CMG head to do internal threads, so I had cut the treaded portion of the ARC battery compartment to make a lock ring band.
Over the weekend, I called Peter and asked him if it would be possible to get just the battery compartment threaded, but he didn't sound too kean on the idea...
This turned out to be a good thing, because it force me to figure out another solution to the problem....
Solution found!!! I cut apart a CMG head, and found that if I were really careful, that there is enought material to do internal threads but the depth alignnment was just slighty off. Well, an o-ring works just great as a spacer AND also works as a seal between the ARC head and the CMG adapter. The only problem that remains is the threading of the CMG head, which is being done by a local machine shop as I type.
So here is the bottom line..
$105 for 100 GMC heads
$200 Machine shop
$ 15 Drill
$ 20 for 100 o-rings
$335 Total expense
IF I sell 50 pieces at $6 + $1 (S&h), I only lose $35 + 1 canabalized arc + 1 canbalized infinity.
The "adapter kit" will consist of the CMG head, an o-ring, and a #6 washer(for the bottom of the battery oompartment)
That's it
The CMG heads arrived today. and I started to work on making the adapters. I have actually completed one by hand. It is a reversible mod, but not waterproof... at least at this time
In actual use, it is not a simple procedure of screwing the ARC head into the adapter, and then the adapter into the Infinity battery compartment.
What I found out when hallowing out the CMG head, is that there isn't quite eought "meat"/material to do the internal threads. So instead of threading the head, I came up with a lock-nut that holds the ARC head inplace inside the CMG head.
Now that I have practiced "installing" the ARC head into the CMG head, and getting the locknut in place, it takes about 2 minutes versus screw head on directly, 10 seconds.
The other issue is that the lenght is slightly off, which I easily fixed by droping a #6 washer into the battery comparment
ITS A GO!!!!
web page