Boring service for Surefire and other aluminum or titanium lights

[precisionworks]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

... LX2, L4 and E2L and would like to bore out for AW18650.

:welcome:

All three can be bored for 18650 like the E2L being measured below:

All E-series lights are $120 per light for boring with 2-week turnaround. Please send at least one battery that you plan to use so I can verify correct sizing. The smallest batteries (so far) are the AW18650 in both 2900 mAh & 3100 mAh. FWIW the 3100 run a few thousandths smaller than the 2900.

 

[knguye11]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

Thanks for the quick reply. I will pack and send them in soon.

 

[knguye11]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

Sorry for newbie question, but I also have M3 and wanted to bore out for 18650. How many battery will the 18650 fit in the M3?

 

[ElectronGuru]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

M3's are 100mm. 18650's need 65 or 130mm.

Go with M3 for 2x18500. Go with M4 for 2x18650.

 

[Light11]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

Hi Barry,

I would like an E series body bored,what is lead time on something like this?

 

[precisionworks]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

2-week turnaround for $120, indefinite time frame for $60.

 

[PoliceScannerMan]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

6-12 months is a long time in the life of a flashaholic

Yes, Barry's work is very precise. Good things come to those who wait.

 

[precisionworks]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

Thank you for your kind words PSM

Pricing for 2-week turnaround is higher than pricing for indefinite turnaround. Please see post #1.

For those needing a light done for less money ElectronGuru is the man to contact. There's a link in post #44.

 

[brunt_sp]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

Thanks for the email messages Barry. My set of E-series bodies will be on their way to you soon.

 

[knguye11]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

I sent in my L4 and E2L last week. Hopefully they have arrived.

 

[precisionworks]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

I sent in my L4 and E2L last week. Hopefully they have arrived.

About two hours ago to be exact

 

[precisionworks]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

A quick update for those who've been patiently waiting for boring work ... Started working through the backlog & E-series are the first lights being done. Reason being that there are some E-series that have been here for a while & once I set up for a particular body all those bodies get done before changing setup. So far four E2's are done as is one E1.

A number of M3's are next in line but I'm waiting on a specialty tool to do those long bodies. Tool should arrive within one week barring any more terrible weather.

 

[PoliceScannerMan]

Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

Great job Barry, I'm very happy with my E1e.

 

[precisionworks]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

Happy to hear that PSM

I don't imagine there are many other lights that small with so many lumens output.

 

[precisionworks]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

Finished up all the E-series plus one M3 and one 7Z. Going out of town, be back Friday afternoon & will email invoices to all owners. Changing tooling to work on V10R's starting next week.

Nice to once again see the workbench ...

 

[PoliceScannerMan]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

Barry, pardon my laziness for not searching, can you bore Ti McClicky CR123 paks to 18m?

 

[precisionworks]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

... can you bore Ti McClicky CR123 paks to 18m?

It is physically possible to do that & there's perhaps someone on the forum who will do that. I don't bore any custom Ti lights because the cost of replacement is many times more than the profit to be made.

 

[precisionworks]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

Finished up all the E-series plus one M3 and one 7Z. Going out of town, be back Friday afternoon & will email invoices to all owners. ...

Thanksgiving got extended one additional day & we got back Saturday afternoon. Invoices were just emailed & lights are packed for shipment tomorrow

 

[Kestrel]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

All I can say is ...

 

[precisionworks]

Re: Boring service for Surefire® and other aluminum or titanium lights

All I can say is ...

LOL

For reasons I cannot explain the longer lights, 3-cell & 4-cell, seem to turn out really well. I'll try to shoot an image or two of the 7Z so you can judge for yourself.

Have gone to a slightly different process that produces a very good result. Bore as usual, add an initial reaming operation followed by final reaming, triple hone using a lubricant that hadn't been tried before. Just when I think the process is finalized along comes another thing or two to try.