Ok because I opened my big mouth on another thread and mentioned I had modded my Reo here are the pics and facts.
Beryllium copper strips were salvaged from an Eveready torch from the local tip, and were used to make leaf spring firing pin and battery contact ( please note battery is inverted with positive pointing down to give a better strike surface for the firing pin, be aware the batteries like the Grey Panasonic will need insulation tape around the edge of the negative end to guard against shorts in the event that your Reo has damaged or missing powder coating/anodising in the area it sits against.Aws and MNKEs do not have this issue as the wrap is more far reaching)
The Dual coil is made up of two 0.8Ohm 30g Kanthal A1 micro coils 1.5mm ID with cotton balls
They are running in a Cyclone with the AFC topcap set up with a fatter O-ring in the catch cup and with the pos pin hammered through the base of the atty to contact the 510 pos connector.
The beefier home fabricated pos pin in the 510 connector was made from an old clearo center shaft, cut,ground and shaped in a pillar drill.
0.4Ohm resistance running on a nearly fresh (4.13v)MNKE18650 from Vapeking (I'm hoping it's a genuine one, I have been assured by Brian) giving 3.78-3.8v under load.
Glowing coil in photos is due to static fire with no airflow, and a very slow compact camera.
Pictures should tell the rest of the story, but I will mention that on a fresh charge with a 1Ohm coil I get 4.02v at the atty terminals.
The Parts:
The Results:
Beryllium copper strips were salvaged from an Eveready torch from the local tip, and were used to make leaf spring firing pin and battery contact ( please note battery is inverted with positive pointing down to give a better strike surface for the firing pin, be aware the batteries like the Grey Panasonic will need insulation tape around the edge of the negative end to guard against shorts in the event that your Reo has damaged or missing powder coating/anodising in the area it sits against.Aws and MNKEs do not have this issue as the wrap is more far reaching)
The Dual coil is made up of two 0.8Ohm 30g Kanthal A1 micro coils 1.5mm ID with cotton balls
They are running in a Cyclone with the AFC topcap set up with a fatter O-ring in the catch cup and with the pos pin hammered through the base of the atty to contact the 510 pos connector.
The beefier home fabricated pos pin in the 510 connector was made from an old clearo center shaft, cut,ground and shaped in a pillar drill.
0.4Ohm resistance running on a nearly fresh (4.13v)MNKE18650 from Vapeking (I'm hoping it's a genuine one, I have been assured by Brian) giving 3.78-3.8v under load.
Glowing coil in photos is due to static fire with no airflow, and a very slow compact camera.
Pictures should tell the rest of the story, but I will mention that on a fresh charge with a 1Ohm coil I get 4.02v at the atty terminals.
The Parts:
The Results:
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. I love that the BeCu can be found in flashlights. I had assumed that it wouldn't, since off-the-shelf flashlights don't aim for such specs in efficiency . . .. . but I guess they used it for durability and weather proofing and oxidation purposes. I have every intention of ripping apart every flashlight I walk past from this day forward. 
Yeah he is cheating slippery ______ I just want to get the dam parts so the throat burners will give me some peace 
