mountaineer
Newly Enlightened
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- Oct 19, 2004
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Hello all , Just wanted to share my first real mod with you . I bought a TWOK Lux III and a 17mm refletor
and gathered my knowlage from the pages here at the Forum .
I then went for broke and decited it was time to take on a KL1 mod . Nothing fancy just changing the emitter and adding a reflector leaving it at stock bias .
I have to say the hardest part of this mod for myself was getting the head open . Here is why : I heated the head up with a heat gun which softend the glue but in all my excitement
I unscrewed the threads to the convertor board housing instead of the bezel ring . /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif I got worried that I would twist the wires loose from the board . I screwed it
back together , warmed it up again and tried to unscrew the bezel ring . No luck ! The other threads were allready loose and the glue on the bezel threads was still holdin on strong . So I placed the bezel in the lathe and heated it up again and with a leather strap and slip jaw pliers uncrewed the bezel head . Un-soldering the old emitter was a little bit of a problem . I remember reading somewhere that Surefire puts a coating on there sodder joints and you can not solder through it. Well with enough heat I got it off and pulled out the the PCB . I did this first to set the new Lux III on the PCB and second to straighten out the leads which were kinda screwed-up from all that unscrewing of the board housing threads . I straightened out the wires so they would match up to the holes in the PCB and placed it back into the head , soldered the leads to the emitter , droped the reflector in and screwed the bezel down .Finished !
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I can hardly wait to get my next mod underway . KL3 lookout here I come . I first need to Find some resistors for overdriving it to about 850ma and of course a McR27 reflector . Then I plan on doing a Exe Mod . I have the 13/16x20 tap ordered and the E-can which will host a NG400
I just dont know what reflector I should go with on this one , a 17mm or a McR20 / IMS 20mm (if there is a difference) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
I will keep you all posted : I love Mod´s !
Kenny
and gathered my knowlage from the pages here at the Forum .
I then went for broke and decited it was time to take on a KL1 mod . Nothing fancy just changing the emitter and adding a reflector leaving it at stock bias .
I have to say the hardest part of this mod for myself was getting the head open . Here is why : I heated the head up with a heat gun which softend the glue but in all my excitement
I unscrewed the threads to the convertor board housing instead of the bezel ring . /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif I got worried that I would twist the wires loose from the board . I screwed it
back together , warmed it up again and tried to unscrew the bezel ring . No luck ! The other threads were allready loose and the glue on the bezel threads was still holdin on strong . So I placed the bezel in the lathe and heated it up again and with a leather strap and slip jaw pliers uncrewed the bezel head . Un-soldering the old emitter was a little bit of a problem . I remember reading somewhere that Surefire puts a coating on there sodder joints and you can not solder through it. Well with enough heat I got it off and pulled out the the PCB . I did this first to set the new Lux III on the PCB and second to straighten out the leads which were kinda screwed-up from all that unscrewing of the board housing threads . I straightened out the wires so they would match up to the holes in the PCB and placed it back into the head , soldered the leads to the emitter , droped the reflector in and screwed the bezel down .Finished !
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I can hardly wait to get my next mod underway . KL3 lookout here I come . I first need to Find some resistors for overdriving it to about 850ma and of course a McR27 reflector . Then I plan on doing a Exe Mod . I have the 13/16x20 tap ordered and the E-can which will host a NG400
I just dont know what reflector I should go with on this one , a 17mm or a McR20 / IMS 20mm (if there is a difference) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
I will keep you all posted : I love Mod´s !
Kenny