My first mag mod's

I recently got a lathe and decided to try some mag moding. I've never used a lathe before so this was my first project. The black mag is a stubby mag C with the stock mag switch converted to momentary thanks to the tutorial on this site it was amazing. It is driving a SSR-50 on a custom heat sink I made. I used 20 gauge teflon wire and got 3.9 amps at the tail cap at DD (it has a D2Flex board in it) with the normal multimeter wires.

The silver one is about the same but has a tail switch instead of a mag switch (wasn't the easiest with the D2Flex, had to have wires go up the battery tube). I only got about 3.6 amps on this one probably due to how much more wire I used.

Let me know what you think. I would like to know what I could change to make them even better. I also just got a mill so may be able to do even more stuff when I get some tooling. Thanks for reading.

Wow, great lego mags you got there!

This is not what I expected from the title "first mag mod". Looks like you have had some practice.

Volvo,

Welcome to CPF and great mod! I love the "zebra" MWG C. Obviously you've got plenty of machine work experience.

However, we need...

BEAMSHOTS!!!!!

and a few pics of your custom heatsink and tail cap mod....

Thanks for the comments.

I will try and get some beam shots tonight and put them up. This was actually my first time using a metal lathe. It was just a little 7x12 mini lathe also. I think I got lucky on how well it turned out.

What kind of lathe did you get? What does your setup look like? Some more pictures would be nice!

To have never used a lathe before I'd say you done well!

where did you get the lathe? What did it cost for a lathe like that? thanks. photos and beamshots please

Very nice for a first time.:twothumbs

js-lots said:

where did you get the lathe? What did it cost for a lathe like that? thanks. photos and beamshots please

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I bought it on ebay it's just a chinese harbor freight style mini lathe I actually got it for about $400 bucks. I'm actually looking to sell it as I just bought a larger 3 in 1 machine. It works really well for smaller lights the C mags got a little tricky and the D mags were tougher as I could only use the inside jaws. I will try and get some pictures up of my setup and beamshots in the next day or so. Thanks for all your comments.

Did you buy the $799 harbor freight 3 in 1 lathe, drill press, milling machine?

jasonck08 said:

Did you buy the $799 harbor freight 3 in 1 lathe, drill press, milling machine?

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Actually I found a shoptask locally on craigslist for $750. I think it is a little bigger than the Harbor Freight one it has a 17x20 lathe, it was heavy about 600-700 pounds. Haven't used it to much still need to buy bigger tooling for it. But the motor is more powerful than the mini lathe, I can do about a .01 depth of cut no problem on aluminum.

I got some pictures of my setup, sorry still no beamshot's it's not really dark till almost 11pm.