Longbow has been revived!

Nitroz · Oct 20, 2017

I had the pleasure of fixing a Longbow that had seen better days. The light was damaged and had sheared the dome off of the Luxeon LED.

I had upgraded my Longbow with an bigger head so I had the old one sitting around and used that to bring it back to life. I bored out center of the old pot and machined a copper core to mount the mcpcb and XP-g2 with a triple speed circuit.

Enough talk here's the pictures of the journey.

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DrafterDan · Nov 2, 2017

That looks good! So you used the stock driver, just a new front end?

Have you considered milling up a set of aluminum jaws for your chuck head? I've been toying with the idea. You don't need them if everything goes perfectly, but I have spun some parts that were chucked up properly. Even tape isn't enough safeguard for me.

Nitroz · Nov 2, 2017

DrafterDan said:
That looks good! So you used the stock driver, just a new front end?

Have you considered milling up a set of aluminum jaws for your chuck head? I've been toying with the idea. You don't need them if everything goes perfectly, but I have spun some parts that were chucked up properly. Even tape isn't enough safeguard for me.

I have thought about that but have not done so.

I used a qlite driver for multiple modes and an IMS17 reflector. It turned out pretty well.

sween1911 · Nov 7, 2017

Sweet! I love seeing a classic back to life.

Longbow has been revived!

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