Aluminum tape to fix orange beam - eviltoast

The Wurkkos TS11 in orange has one big problem: The inside of the head is orange as well. This causes an orange spill, as you can see in this image:

Wurkkos TS11 orange spill

Today I noticed that the bezel isn’t glued. So I quickly disassembled it, cut a piece of aluminum tape into the right shape and covered the inside of the head with it.

Aluminum tape

There’s still some orange from the outside of the bezel, but that can be fixed with a black marker or a 3D printed insert.

Result after adding aluminum foil

  • Adair21@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    Hey Sammy, good to see you over here! Cool mod too. I think I saw something similar on a green DM11

  • solrize@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nice! Maybe you could try GITD tape to give your light a built-in locator.

    For some reason I don’t see this post on c/flashlight. I came across it elsewhere by accident. Any idea?

    • SammysHP@feddit.deOP
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      1 year ago

      Using gitd tape would just cause another tint in the beam. It has aux LEDs, that’s enough locator for me.

      Not sure why you don’t see the post. I checked right after posting it and it was already pushed to lemmy.world.

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        1 year ago

        Oh, nice about the aux led locators. Hank lights were the only ones I knew of with that feature, but as it is supported by mainline Anduril, I guess it makes sense that other lights now have it too.

        It is weird about the post. It showed up after a while, but is now gone again. I will open a ticket when I’m at an online computer. Right now I’m just on a phone with very crappy internet.

        • SammysHP@feddit.deOP
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          1 year ago

          Uhm… There are so many other flashlights with aux LEDs. Sofirn, Wurkkos, Fireflies, Mateminco, just as an example.

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            1 year ago

            Cool I’ll look into those. I solved the missing post mystery. It was an error on my profile settings, now fixed.

  • bunglesnacks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nice job! I used GITD tape to do this on my green D4K, white tape with blue glow, and it brought Duv down .0010. I’ll have to snag some aluminum tape for some other lights!

  • tom@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Oh wow, that’s simple but does give a good improvement. Something to be aware of!