Where To Get A Brinkmann...

I need to get my mitts on a couple of Brinkmann Legend 3 AA flashlights, not the 2 AA as in Lambda's Illuminator but the long model that takes three AA batteries. Having a hard time finding one on the net, or if I do it's one of those print-your-company's-name-on-the-light vendors where you have a meet a minimum order.

Anyone know where they could kindly direct me?

Thanks, although I wanted to get one from a vendor offering Priority Mail or similar so it wouldn't be two or three weeks before arrival. Brinkmann won't ship free except in the 48 states unfortunately -- perhaps I'll give them a phone call Monday, see if I can work something out with them.

I think I'd like to find a couple of these as well.. Can you say "direct drive mini-blaster"?

Man, I just gotta find those copper slugs..

Dat's whut ah be doin'!

Need da slugs too, dough...

For heatsinking the AA Brinkmann's, it looks like I could get away with using a couple of pennies with the detail filed flat and then maybe solder them together.

Last night I prepped the LS/o's collumator by carefully removing the little "chunk" from the edge. It has a groove around the leading edge that nearly perfectly fits into the Brinkmann AA head (with the lens removed) using an R13 sized O-ring for a spacer behind it.

There isn't much room for a step-up circut in there, but we all KNOW that it can fit. Still, I think I'd prefer a direct drive instead of a step-up circut, so the 3 AA looks like the way to go for sure.. I figure that I could always throw in a 1 or 2 ohm resistor if it runs too hot.

The collumator "holder" was easy to remove from the original heatsink using a razor blade to separate the glue. I haven't decided yet whether or not to remove the Luxeon emitter and remount it on the copper slug. The thermal conductivity of copper has me leaning in this direction tho..

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For heatsinking the AA Brinkmann's, it looks like I could get away with using a couple of pennies with the detail filed flat and then maybe solder them together.
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Disclaimer: It would probably still be fine...but pennies aern't copper anymore, a lot of people don't realize this, but maybe you already knew. The inside is like a Zinc alloy.