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    Possible source for diffusion film

    Hi chaps! The other week, my daughter broke our digital camera, no big deal, it was a few years old and wasn't expensive in the first place. As I always do, I took it to pieces, always like to play with LEDs, lenses, tiny motors and stuff, but the interesting part came when I got to taking...
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    who all has made a flashlight from scratch

    Here's a miniature flashlight I made in brass: By robm at 2007-03-21 It has glow in the dark features (the LED glows when off, which is visible through three tiny windows around the front, also the button glows) and runs off 3.0v or 3.7v 1/2 AA lithium batteries. It has two light levels...
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    52mm glow ring m*g P7

    I'm going to keep an eye on this thread, glow rings are a great idea but up to now they haven't been made with the best glowing pigment. I'll definitely be up for buying some of these when they are on sale! Cheers Rob
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    Glow powder - how do I...?

    I read on here that cutting glow-powder infused epoxy harms the efficiency of the powder somehow?
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    Streamlight Twin-Task 3AA LED only mod - EASY

    I modded a torch similar to one of these, removing the bulb and fitting a cluster of six red leds, so now I have a torch that can shine white or red as needed, useful for saving night vision.
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    Easiest to mod 5mm led lights

    I like the Inova Microlight too, it's just a bit smarter looking than the Photons IMO, the Photons look a bit clunky. I removed the control chip from my Microlight and installed it in the little brass torch I made, it works really well in there, then shorted out some of the pads where the chip...
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    Glow in the Dark Projects and Mods

    Here are some lights that I have added quality GID paint to: This is the first LED torch I ever bought, it runs off three AAAs. It's still quite useful, the GID effect is really good, good enough to light up a forest path once your eyes are darkness-adjusted. This is the next LED...
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    Little 'Police' light I modded...

    Here's a little 'Police' brand light I modded a while back, it's mainly just me trying stuff to pimp it out a bit, although some of the mods like the tail stand mod have made it more practical. I like lights that can have their brightness turned down very low, so I did that with this one, it now...
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    Seoul + glow powder?

    Here are some pictures of a GID treatment I did on a Luxeon LED. It definitely helps if you carefully paint the black body of the LED with bright white paint before adding the GID paint. I used the typical clear lacquer supplied by "The Glow Company" on this one, it's had a lot of use over the...
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    Here's my old lathe...

    I think its capacity is 3 1/2" by 16". There's some more info about it here: http://www.lathes.co.uk/drummond/page13.html I think I can still get a full set of changewheels for it, I think that I can also get wheels for cutting metric threads too, the Myford company was still going until...
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    Here's my old lathe...

    It's a "Myford Drummond M42" lathe from (at the earliest) 1942, made in Beeston which is a little town near Nottingham. These were made in many thousands for the British government and were used by various branches of the British military during World War 2. I am really pleased with it, it...
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    Here's the first light I ever made from scratch...

    I hope you like it, I machined it out of solid brass on my old (sixty-five year old!) lathe that I got last year. It uses little 1/2 AA batteries, I know possibly not the best for flashlight use but I got a load of very high quality lithium 3.0v and 3.6v cells from a Gov't Surplus dealer with...
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    Suggestions for 123 Fenix Light

    I'd like to see a Fenix flashlight as you describe but with two buttons on the side, along the body, instead of a clickie on the tail. The one nearest the lens causes the light to come on in 'high', while the one nearer the tail causes it to come on in 'low'. Once it's on you can press either...
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    Glow in the Dark Projects and Mods

    I have put glow powder on the backs of LEDs like that a few times, then added a layer of opaque white paint behind that, it seems to make the glow a little brighter. One of my link term projects is a small light for indoor use which will be treated like this. I have a few multi-led lights that...
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    UltraFire AA endcap switch bad

    The switches that Milkyspit sells are a good replacement and you might be able to do a two-stage mod with them too!
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