My DIY - DSE901 - MAGNUM POWER

[Di]

no good for me,
I need the switch on the side,

I am a delicate lady !!!!

Di .....

[spyderuk]

hey spyder use this torch instead , you know you want too hehe

DealExtreme: $15.99 Romisen RC-A8 Cree Q3-WC 200-Lumen LED Flashlight (1*CR123A) $16 usd

Do my eyes deceive me or is that the Screwdriver body right there?

[Bastage]

Do my eyes deceive me or is that the Screwdriver body right there?

Ok... that $15 flashlight looks exactly like the $160 screwdriver. Wow.. I don't even know what to say to that. It's really hard not to call Trog out on this one..

[Bellinghamster]

Ok... that $15 flashlight looks exactly like the $160 screwdriver. Wow.. I don't even know what to say to that. It's really hard not to call Trog out on this one..

You can call him out all you want. I'm sure it's the same thing, but I (and others) have neither the time nor inclination to be tearing flashlights apart and rewiring them. Trog's time is valuable as well, so I don't feel bad compensating him. If you have the skills and time, I'm sure you can build an SD for $20. No different than any other Do It Yourself type project.

[Bastage]

I realize peoples time is valuable. If Trog can get that kind of mark up on them and people are willing to pay it, that's fine. He has the right to charge whatever he wants for his time. For those that are inclined to do their own mods, I will be posting a DIY. I have nothing personal against any supplier here but these are 100% store bought products. That's the downside of selling modded retail products, anyone who knows what they are doing can build their own and they have every right to do so. He may customize it more than it appears as well..

[Bellinghamster]

On the same hand, I have the right to post a DIY version of it with 100% store bought products just like I did with the Husky flashlight mods and the USB mods I have posted.

I couldn't agree more... I'm just jealous you have those kinds of skills

Keep the good stuff coming, I just think Trog gets some undue flak just because his costs the most. It's also pretty consistently rated the best for heavy use, but that may be because he's the only one cranking out the mods in quantity.

[Bastage]

I'm not going to start cranking out these mods and selling them, and I won't be competing with Trog or anyone else. I just like tinkering with these things. As far as the Screwdriver being rated the best, I'm sure it is. Ecig batteries are no match for these flashlight mods that use 900-2500mah batteries! I know Trog actually posted something not too long ago about the SD being made from a chinese product so it's not like he's trying to hide it. I'm not even sure what all is involved in getting that particular flashlight adapted as an ecig battery - so credit to Trog for doing so and making a good product. I was surprised at the price, but again what someone charges for their time is their business. I did order the flashlight and a few batteries to play around with though...

[KentSP]

The Screw Driver is a lot more than just that torch, if you have a good look at the photos you'll see there is some serious modding needed to get that torch into a Screw Driver. Firstly the adapter at the front needs to be turned on a lathe and takes about an hour to make. Secondly the Screw Driver does not use the switch and back spring of the torch. The switch attached to the spring is screwed out and a custom made adapter ring is screwed in to make a 1.4" inch threaded hole to fit the (off)-on(off) switch. At the end of the day it's a case of whether it is worth your time to build it or not. My estimate to make the screw driver package yourself is that it would cost no less than US$80 assuming you don't have your own lathe and pay someone to make the pieces. Trogg's price 100 pounds is like 46% markup, hardly a rip off if you consider you can get DSE901 from the factory for around 26 US each including express shipping.

[Bastage]

Kent,
I'm sure there are a lot of things that need to be done to the casing in order for it to be converted. An hour on the lathe... I highly doubt. I have nothing against the SD and as I said earlier it looks like a great product. Whatever I come up with probably won't be perfected like the SD but I'm sure I will be able to make it work. I'm sure all I need is some time to tinker with it, and a pipe cutter.

[KentSP]

I decided a while back that I was going to make a torch into a e-cig but when I came across the SD body on DX I figured why not mod a torch that's already been done that way I can peek at all the photos for ideas. I got a friend with a lathe in another town I went to see him he made the top part for the atomizer for me out of Brass he had a piece of brass laying around that he first had to turn to the thickness of the torch body, anyways he did it for free but it took him around an hour and he'd usually charge around US15 an hour here in SA is not that expensive for labour like the UK. So i vaped it for about 2 days using the normal on off switch at the back no problem is just hard to press and you must remember to switch off. Then the 1 LIR 123A battery and a Digital fast charger from DX blew up so all i had was one battery left. I took the top of the Fast charger and joined it to a penstyle charger it worked another 2 days then the battery wouldn't take any charge. So now I am waiting for other batteries and two slow chargers from DX before I can give it another go. In the meantime I want to make a plan with the switch now I have no clue where I will find a 1/4" inch switch so I am thinking about using a surface mount switch between the casing and the isolated spring in the torch seems the only easy option but it won't look nice and will end up having two switches both which can work when the other is broken. I think it may be possible to make a very rough screw driver copy using epoxy putty to hold the atomizer connector problem is there is only on wire in the torch and the casing is the negative and to solder a second wire to aluminum is not easy not even sure is possible.