What to do with a 6 cell Maglite

Just Found this huge beast in an old bag of mine and wondered what I should do with it. Right now it's got some cheap Maglite Dropins in her. Any suggestions as to how to make it a real real long runtime kinda bright end of the world light. I'd like to stay with regular old D cells or AA in D adapter.

Malkoff dropin. $43.00, more if you want a LOP reflector from Kaidoman, a bit more if you want a new lens. Alkalines, 325 Malkoff lumens, will probably outlive the light...

Ya Malkoff was my first thought.he make one that will run off 6 d cell alkaline?

Use it to play softball😁?

Tachead said:

Use it to play softball😁?

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The $43.00 and specs were for his 3-6 cell dropin. 😁

Edit- Quoted wrong post. CPF'ing on my phone... :shakehead. :kiss:

Tachead said:

Use it to play softball😁?

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Lmao ya this thing is huge!!! Maybe I'll do the Malkoff Dropin crenellated bezel and Tungsten glass breaker in the tail and call it a day. Lol so long I'll probably have to make sling for it

Well, if you throw a Malkoff in it it will take a lot more of a beating then just a game of softball lol. I vote Malfoff as well👍.

thermal guy said:

Lmao ya this thing is huge!!! Maybe I'll do the Malkoff Dropin crenellated bezel and Tungsten glass breaker in the tail and call it a day. Lol so long I'll probably have to make sling for it

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If you hold it by the tailcap you will get at least another 2 feet of throw😂.

That sounds like a good plan. We need pics of the finished product👍.

thermal guy said:

Lmao ya this thing is huge!!! Maybe I'll do the Malkoff Dropin crenellated bezel and Tungsten glass breaker in the tail and call it a day. Lol so long I'll probably have to make sling for it

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I have a recent build like that, except uses the 5000lm Adventure Sport unit with switch/tail resistance bypasses, stupid output running on 6 NiMH (to keep the clubbing mass high - it can also be sleeved for 2x 26650 for lighter unit).

Very effective in its intended purpose, knuckleheads cross the street when they see it in hand...

Tachead said:

If you hold it by the tailcap you will get at least another 2 feet of throw😂.

That sounds like a good plan. We need pics of the finished product👍.

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😂 LMAO 😂 2 more feet of throw! Good one

thermal guy said:

 LMAO  2 more feet of throw! Good one

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Agree!

Thats funny right there!

Don't care who you are.:twothumbs

That's nice. Putting that on the maybe list. Hey didn't someone make a Maglite head that fit p60 style drop ins? Omg got to search

i was lucky enough to buy FM par 36 head years ago, so i put it on 6d and put aircraft landing light in it,
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...ell-Maglites&p=5274874&viewfull=1#post5274874

Wow, that is pretty nice alpg88. Thanks for posting that👍.

Edit: That mod is pretty awesome too.

FM modded a D cell mag to run two 18650s in parallel and use a P60 drop in.

If you took all those batteries out of it,I could use it to store all my flashlights inside it.

light-modder said:

FM modded a D cell mag to run two 18650s in parallel and use a P60 drop in.

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Ya that what I thought can't find the posts on it. If I could get that head and run say a Malkoff M61 or M61T with 6 D cells can you imagine the runtime I would get? D cells are like 5000mah. Only 1.5 volts though. Not sure how to compare it against say 18650/3400mah

thermal guy said:

D cells are like 5000mah. Only 1.5 volts though. Not sure how to compare it against say 18650/3400mah

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These can be 7000mAh @ 3.7 volts in much smaller rechargeable package.

Whatever you decide, you get bonus points for having a map of Middle Earth on your wall.