Retro Eveready Flashlights -- Upgraded

parnell

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I purchased two "vintage" lights off of ebay with the intent of upgrading. I received the lights, which didn't appear to be vintage. I found that they were retro, being manufactured in 1998. This made it much easier to mod, because I didn't feel bad about destroying the original light assembly.
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The reflector is a cheap, pliable plastic and the reflective surface is poorly done. This was definitely going to be replaced.

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The original was very cheaply made, so I removed the light assembly only remaining with the threaded disc. I epoxied an aluminum disc on the inside and part of a d26 pill to the bottom.

I wanted to keep batteries simple, so i used this driver with 2 D cells.

At first I had soldered the pill to the base of the disc, luckily I had a realization before I assembled everything. The metal disc on the metal flashlight would turn the light on without the switch. I placed a thin layer of epoxy on the disc, then the pill on top of that.

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For the first light I used a Q3-5C, for the second, a R2-WG.

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Both lights will receive the reflector on the left. The other is still on back order so I used a d26 reflector that has been sanded shorter on the bottom.

This is one of those "just because I can" projects. I mainly did it to have a couple of go to flashlights around the house. I am very pleased with the results.


 
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elumen8

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Very nice...I like the idea of 'modern vintage'.

To be honest, I'm liking the look of the 'temporary' D26 reflector a lot. It gives a sort of "what in the...??" type of reaction.

JB
 

Benson

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Very nice...I like the idea of 'modern vintage'.

To be honest, I'm liking the look of the 'temporary' D26 reflector a lot. It gives a sort of "what in the...??" type of reaction.

JB

And it has extra space -- maybe add a dozen 5mm UV LEDs, or some such. Is there a CCFL version of those old circline flourescents? Something like that would be sweet.

Not sure about the switching, though... guess you could use capacitor-powered flip-flop + MOSFETs to get a toggleable multimode.
 

elumen8

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And it has extra space -- maybe add a dozen 5mm UV LEDs, or some such. Is there a CCFL version of those old circline flourescents? Something like that would be sweet.

Not sure about the switching, though... guess you could use capacitor-powered flip-flop + MOSFETs to get a toggleable multimode.

Oh yeah...go big or go home!! :thumbsup:

JB
 

parnell

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It would look sweet with the 5mm leds around it, but that is stretching beyond my abilities for now.
 
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