Aloha!!! The Hawaiian Shirt Magnum..

[Cisco]

Heys Guys,

I had no choice, my wife saw this flashlight and bought it (for $3.00) and brought it home, slapped it on my desk and said "Turn this into a E-cig". Little did she know it was the perfect magnum style flashlight....

So I went ahead and modded this funky looking thing, has a 901 atty connector, polished aluminum atty bushing, recessed atty connector, tact switch with red cap, and a pink LED. This thing will take 1 18500,17500,14500 for Standard voltage vaping and also 2x 3v CR2 for high voltage vaping.

My wife doesn't vape and I feel like a Beach Boy when I vape this thing so I will be putting this thing up in the classifieds.

Cheers

Cisco...

 

[AGNES PEACOCK]

That's really cute Cisco. Very nice job. I'm sure it will sell quickly. Are you available to mod other such flashlights for a fee. Just interested in case I find something that would be great.

 

[Cisco]

That's really cute Cisco. Very nice job. I'm sure it will sell quickly. Are you available to mod other such flashlights for a fee. Just interested in case I find something that would be great.

I am up for the challenge, What do you have in mind..........

Cisco...

 

[warp1900]

Nice to see you mod a flashlight that big Cisco, hehe.

You have taken the switch placement to another level.

 

[mpetva]

the number of batteries is confusing me. How many does it use?

 

[Kewtsquirrel]

It's a magnum housing, so it will take one 14500, one 17500, one 18500, or 2 cr2s (3v each, for high voltage vaping)

 

[AGNES PEACOCK]

I just bought one of these over the weekend at the Brookstone store.http://www.brookstone.com/searchResults.jsp.vr?NOCACHE=true Do you think it would be possible to mod it. It just plugs into a car cigarette lighter. Says it lasts 2 hours. Aluminum body. High-output half watt LED is 10 times brighter than a standard LED light. Water resistant. Its very small (about 2 inches long x 7/8 of an inch wide). What do you think?

 

[warp1900]

OK, lol, this is what you want right Agnes?

http://www.brookstone.com/Microbeam...ml?his=2~46337~2~root_category@kwd~flashlight

or this?

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.20216


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[Kewtsquirrel]

I just bought one of these over the weekend at the Brookstone store. Russell Blaylock, MD - What To Do If Force VaccinatedDo you think it would be possible to mod it. It just plugs into a car cigarette lighter. Says it lasts 2 hours. Aluminum body. High-output half watt LED is 10 times brighter than a standard LED light. Water resistant. Its very small (about 2 inches long x 7/8 of an inch wide). What do you think?

You're going to mod some quack talking about forced vaccinations? But what if you get the autism!?

 

[AGNES PEACOCK]

You're going to mod some quack talking about forced vaccinations? But what if you get the autism!?

Whoops! fixed the link before you posted. You're rude.

 

[Cisco]

I just bought one of these over the weekend at the Brookstone store.Brookstone Do you think it would be possible to mod it. It just plugs into a car cigarette lighter. Says it lasts 2 hours. Aluminum body. High-output half watt LED is 10 times brighter than a standard LED light. Water resistant. Its very small (about 2 inches long x 7/8 of an inch wide). What do you think?

I have a couple of those but haven't had a chance to see what can be done with it. I will let you know if I can work it out

Cisco...

 

[AmplexorJ]

nice construction there.... what do you use for the endcap? I like the recessed atty design.

 

[Cisco]

I told my wife if she ever found more of these in different colors to pick them up.....Here is the result of her feeding my addiction....


Don Ho would be proud....

Cisco...

 

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These are so pretty! I like them Cicso

 

[Tecratk]

Wow, where can I buy mag lights like these, Cisco?

Also, is there a tutorial on how to make an ecig out of these magnum flashlights available anywhere? If you felt up to making one yourself, that would be awesome too.

These look very cool, you're doing an incredible job.

 

[hoogie76]

As always nice work Cisco..

For those of us who don't have a machine shop handy, here's how I made mine with wire cutters, drill, soldering iron, epoxy and solder.

Search ebay for 9 led flashlight, you can get them in plain colors, 4 for about $10 shipped. They are similar to the one Cisco has but a little different.

Once you get them:

A 7/8" fender washer fits perfectly into the light end of the tube once you take the guts out by pushing them through the top from the bottom with a socket, dowel or something round like that.

Make sure you get fender washers that can be soldered to, usually zinc coated ones work. Hardened steel washers can't be soldered.

If you take two of the 7/8" fender washers and solder them together and get a little bit of solder around the edges then it ends up being a good stable press fit into the end of the tube. You can actually sand them with some fine sand paper to give them some sheen, then give em a coat of something to keep them from staining.

The hole in the washers is where you drill out and press fit or solder your atomizer connector.

You'll also find that the tube is a little bit too long for an 17500/18500 battery. If you look at the inside of a water bottle cap, not the sport kind or a soda bottle cap, just a regular clearish white water bottle cap, there is an inner ring. Cut the outer ring from this and use the inner ring part as your top battery contact. I used a small washer,soldered a wire to it, drilled a hole in the cap, put the wire trough the hole then glued the washer to center of the cap for a top battery contact. I then put the cap in the tube down a bit, put an 18500 battery into the bottom of the tube and screwed the switch portion back on. Where the cap ended up in the tube is where it got epoxied in.

Make sure you do a dry run with placement of caps, wires, and switches before you epoxy anything.

The switch is the biggest PIA of them all. Mine, a 6mm square tactile switch with 9 mm actuator, is just epoxied into a 1/8" in hole drilled randomly into the second ring of indents at the tops of the flashlight.

Use a small amount of epoxy just to mount the switch then backfill once your sure that no epoxy can get to the actuator of the switch itself. Guess it depends on what type of epoxy you're using, mine is liquid type. Putty type would probably be easier to work with.

The 7/8" washers contacting the tube act as ground, the inner bottlecap wire goes to one side of the switch, then the other side of the switch goes to the atomizer connector positive connection.

Search for hoogie76 and flashlight mod to see the difference in the flashlights, and quality of work

 

[kinabaloo]

Nice write up Hoogie76, even w/o the pics.

 

[Bubo]

Nice Hoogie....

- I like the "Fender Washer" idea.. seeings how making bushings is out of the questions for me....

 

[keyzygirl]

They are awesome and I think they are soooo pretty.

 

[Cisco]

They are awesome and I think they are soooo pretty.

Key West!!! You would be the talk of the town walking around with one of these....


Cisco...