Now all I can add is "thank you xwing for doing all the button pushing for me" []
Serious now, like xwing said, I have no ideea what kind of film i am using, I bought it as wrapping foil. I picture would be useless because it looks identical to Vince's mylar. Thanks for the compliments. Check out the pictures thread for my latest bragg [8D]
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I have a 4-D cell mag light and am currently in the middle of converting it to an LED. They're actually pretty easy to convert.
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Which one you using? There are various colors. Got any pics?
Thanks
Melek Ta'us
There is no light or dark...there is only the Force....knowing this...who dares to challenge me?
The first machined saber I purchased from Tim was made from a maglight
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Hello everyone.
I've been fortunate enough to find this site and learn quite a bit.
My thanks to Do-Clo for offering his saber on eBay. I bought a bunch. I've learned alot from his work. I'm designing/working on a couple of lightsabers. When my order arrives later this week, I'll make a double bladed lightsaber. I'm also working on a maglite 4 d-cell all i need to do here is to get the sink tube to MHS adapter to fit inside the maglite. I'll have to sand it down or find someone with a lathe that can in my area. I'll be getting sandpaper later today. Any suggestions on Grit? I'm just gonna get the roughest grit. i have to take off about a millimeter's worth of material.
I haven't seen more than one Maglite conversion done here, is it b/c there just harder than the MHS offered? Well if i ever get the adapter to fit then I'll post pics when its complete. I haven't decided on the color of the led yet maybe amber or red-orange not sure yet. I want the led color to work with the black hilt/maglite.
Thanks in advance to any answers
Welcome to the boards. If you are to build following a saber of Do-Clos you are already heading in the right direction. I like the MHS stuff so much that I just haven't played with anything else lately. I have a red maglite that I was going to do and it is still sitting along with some other parts in the to be done box. You may want to also get you exact specs of the maglite and ask Tim to machine it down for you, custom pieces and services are avaliable with a quick e-mail. I realize that you have made your order already but that is not to say that you can't save that adapter and blade holder for another project down the road. []
As for grit size I will leave that to the guys on here that know what their talkin about to go over that one.
Amber on a black hilt sounds awesome good luck with it.
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Yeah, whatever grit you get will be fine.
The reason people do mag-light conversions is because they like the way it looks.[] Not that it's any easier...
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Welcome Macross, the mag light will make a good looking saber, in fact I have one in my project box that will be converted one day. I think that a red, green or amber led would look good with a black mag light hilt. Thanks for the kind words on my work and I am glad that you enjoy you sabers.
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maglights seem like a good hilt because they are essentialy a sink tube. that means that you can add a bunch of stuff onto it and the electronics are already in it.
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maglights seem like a good hilt because they are essentialy a sink tube. that means that you can add a bunch of stuff onto it and the electronics are already in it.
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I am surprised you haven't played with taking out the bulb and playing with setup to mount a LED in there. I was on my way to doing that and it should work out fine. I love the idea of using bigger batteries like MC does talk about long life[
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