Retrofitting Vintage Flashlights With LEDs
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Watch how this amazing piece of history is brought back to life as I retrofit it with modern cree LEDs! This host is the Justrite 2121, a lantern style flashlight with a unique dual head light system.
Originally based in Chicago Illinois Justrite company has been in business since 1904. The 2121 is one of the best vintage flashlights I have in my collection.
Converting this light to LEDs, while fully preserving its original character, is no easy task, but the joy of modding will prevail.
Zener Diode Mod: budgetlightforum.com/node/58159
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Music: Simper Fidelis 1890 and Well worth the wait.
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Not only you do soldering, but you also can do lathe works and firmware flashing! Your videos bring immense values as always!
OMG! My Grandfather was a railroad man and he had lots of cool lanterns. Your work is amazing!
That's really cool
You have waay too much fun doing these projects. You crack me up! Great job!
Hi Matt. Excellent piece of modding as always. Bearing in mind that that I had some of those tin flashlights sometimes made by Pifco, Eveready etc, when they were new. The lantern ones were quite good. None of them used to flash at the same rate. This is of course because it was the bulb itself that flashed on and off. This was I believe due to bi-metal action within the bulb. It was great fun as a child in approximately 1960 (I was 8yrs old), to go exploring around the house and garden. Using these old torches various types. Some of them had different colours. These were operated by sliding switches that moved, normally tubular red or green shades up or down covering the bulb from the reflector. The middle of the lens had the centre covered so no white (I use the term loosely of course) could escape. The switch arrangements were pretty good. There was a flash button or also known as morse code button that had to be held down whilst a slider switch was slid into play locking the button down, which was sprung loaded, and would pop up again once it was released.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane mate.
Oh, by the way, I do enjoy watching your videos.
Thanks again.
NICE! a now deceased friend had a affinity for OLD flashlights like you. With a collection of 300 or more. On his passing his sister kept 3 donated the rest to a museum. I don't know where 😥. You look as excited as he was upon his return form a fleemarket garage sale with a new treasure. Keep enthused and happy thanks for the information.
Awsome! Taking something old like that and turning it into a LED light is so nice. I just baught a dropp in led for the light I got when I was a child. It was just a giveaway from my mothers bank but it was a great two c cell light and I kept it safe for 30+ years...
Sir
You are an amazing person,and university of the flashlights!
Your videos always put a smile on my face, comfy video with great enthusiasm. Flashlights these days are space age compared to old flashlights, even a decade old is not even comparable, I guess that can be said for most of tech GPU's, CPU's SSD's, the progress still blows my mind whenever I build a new rig. We're in unprecedented times.
Mr. Smith,
I've been a fan for some time now. I just wanted to say thanks. I really thought I was the only one fascinated/collecting flashlights. I guess, in retrospect, my Father gave me one when I was very young, that's when it must have started. One day, maybe a year ago I searched youtube for like minded individuals. Lo and behold, your site popped up and I felt less compulsive about my inordinate amount of time collecting flashlights. I enjoy your site immensely.
Your sir, are my hero. This is so cool!
I love that you love to tinker like this. I am also a Journeyman Toolmaker and can appreciate the convenience of having machines to do the things you do. I tinker in other ways myself, but I don't know what I would do without access to machines.
Very cool project man, looking forward to seeing more of these retrofits.
Those pucks were beautifully done, awesome work. That's definitely a kickass vintage sleeper right there. I swear I can never find any in good condition despite my searches at thrift shops and anywhere else I might happen to check.
Check antiques shops as well if you have them in your area.
Awesome! I love to see people's creativity and skill at work. Made-better-vintage is always cool to see as well!
You have a lot of skills and good tools too. Perfect how you let us follow the whole process. Thanks for placing this vid!
The enthusiasm you have for this is contagious. Love it.
I love your videos! One tip to make sure your round stock is straight is to clamp the stock loose, use a ballbearing mounted on a bar in the toolholder. Run it really slow and advance the bearing until it runs true.
After that you thighten the schuck and you are ready to rumble 😉
Great video and superb workmanship! Thank you!
Start your own Flashlight company. Make the best of the best, you have the capability. Make them bigger, stronger, brighter with longer throws. lol (Great WORK BTW)
That's a killer build! Well done, Sir!
Once again, when you cue the music with that ancient incandescent bulb, I just lost it. These old flashlights a so cool. Damn I love your channel. Matt they had to custom make the mold when they made you, and you are a limited edition of one! More people need to know about your channel. Keep up the great work. FYI I have about 75 in my collection. Everything from Nitecore on down.
You have a pretty impressive skill set. That was a fun video to watch. Thank you.
Damn man you could easily make that into a business or at least a side hustle. Buying up old vintage flashlights and retrofitting them with modern LED's. I think people who like vintage things would totally dig that.
Fantastic. Real lover of torches. Cheers buddy. Thank you.
Good job, wish your passion bring u big fortune.
Awesome! Enjoy all your videos!
Very Very Cool! That was amazing and ever so entertaining. I wish my Dad was still alive he would love your work.
great video! i too have a massive vintage flashlight & lantern collection, and did similar LED conversion bulbs & modules for many of the ones i have to improve the beam patterns, run times & output greatly.
Not shabby, not shabby at all. Good job man!
Totally enjoyed watching this
whoah, that conversion is literally light years ahead of where it started. Bravo!
The most awesomest vintage lantern mod ever!!!
that monster deserves a place with your finest customs !!! anybody that digs flashlights will want that beast !!!!
I like these kind of videos! Thanks for uploading
I could watch you do mods all day, my man.
Good job on the conversion, personally, I'd have gone for warm white emitters, but that would have dropped output a bit, I just love the tint of incan bulbs.
Graham, I am with ya. I've been saving some 90CRI 3000k emitters I would really like to put in one of the other lights shown in the video... Hopefully I can get time to do another soon :) Thanks for watching!!
This is just incredible! You have an amazing skill I admire being a beginner flashoholic, I had this exact idea and was going to ask you to do something just like this in a blast from the past episode! Reminds me of walking through the farm with my old old incandescent 4D Maglite thinking that was bright a long time ago. I want to mod some old tool lights, like my 2 old dewalt 18v lights and do exactly what you did with the puck inside the original head.
Love the beams!
Amazing work homie!!
Woah, these were so unique
It's always a good day to be flashaholic. Flash on!
You may have just started a trend of modsters revamping retro lights,,but I saw it first here on your channel!!
Your work and your results are awesome 👍🏽
Your vids keep gettin better. Great music also!
favorite video to date...thanks!!!
How does this not have a million views. So crazy!! From your sub. 👍👍
Great Video! Hope you hit 10k Subscribers soon!
Brilliant work, bravo! I bet you could make a good business out of this!
Can i say one thing ? .. you are crazy man! Keep it up
You are very smart and creative bud
I like how people were so friendly in the comments unlike some of your other videos... :( AND :)
This is great!
NICE RETRO - THANKS
Beautiful...
Brilliant
Good stuff!
Nice job man....gratulation...!¡
Cordoba spain.
Cool vid, next time you could make a this sleeper even more undercover. like one with the original bulb and one with an led.
OUTSTANDING. You need a nickname. How about Professor LED or Professor Flashlight either one I'm happy with. LOL. 🔦🇺🇸🔦🇺🇸🔦🇺🇸🐢
That’s awesome, I once converted my old mag light to use an mr16 bulb powered by 18650s.
I like how you played the old music while showing the old light's performance lol. Btw could you give us a look into your rock collection I saw?
Ye, the old music was cool haha
Omg that is so cool! What a great idea, I’d actually pay good money for a like like that!
Tus vídeos son los mejores
The lathe is so satisfying to watch lol.
Having the right tools makes all the difference for odd-mods!
0:18 I am pretty much sure this man is a maniac.
LOL nooo
Good choice in background music
Coolest vid EVER !!!
It would be hilarious to pull that flashlight out for some unsuspecting person and then turn it on. Nice work all around
Broham!
Damn you have a Full Shop.
And you saved Wally’s career......now for the Brave Little Toaster
Cool!
Perfect😀👍
Some nifty SMD rework with a fat horseshoe iron tip and a bit of flux. Nicely done.
Отлично проделанная работа!
Nice
Cool
My mom looooooves you... hahaha, you're so funny
These Lights are pretty cool but have you seen the flashlights used in Back to the future 3? In the beginning scene where they dig up the DMC DeLorean. They seem pretty cool "Old Mine Lights" just can't seem to find em Online
What would I need do learn to do a vintage ever ready big Jim no 101? They discontinued the batteries.
On a big beam model 166, it has a par36 sealed beam, runs on 1 6 volt battery. What would be a good way to convert this to LED, while retaining the 6v power source?
Great Review & Vid I just got a Vintage Light for the newbies ELEKTRO LUMENS BLASTER III LUXEON STAR LED FLASHLIGHT by WAYNE JOHNSON . I have retrofit some Vintage US Navy Battle Lanterns to INCAN & 4C cell Battery pack and some other Lamps .
I got those cheap zoomie Amazon flashlights. I found out the hard way some are wired in parallel & some series. The parallel actually is brighter & I'm guessing these used a better chip. However it sucks that these need to be charged in the light (No data on the battery). Any ideas on how to mod the circuit to use series? I already burnt 2 up trying.
I found a vintage BIG BEAM TELEDYNE MODEL:166 FLASHLIGHT at a newly opened business in my home town that sells ANTIQUES. I asked the store owner if the flashlight worked and she said she did not know but it looked to be in very good condition and after inspecting it closely and seen all the components were in excellent condition so I seen no reason why it should not work if the bulb was good and if I could get a battery to fit.
I BROUGHT it home and took the insert out of the PLASTIC MADE IN CHINA FLASHLIGHT I Purchased from DOLLAR GENERAL. The DOLLAR GENERAL FLASHLIGHT uses 1 big square battery or
4 AAA 1.5 VOLT BATTERIES that are installed in a adapter that comes with the flashlight... and to my surprise I pushed the on/off button and it came on.
WOW! I'm super amazed! That was very entertaining.
Just a question with your temp testing at 0.3A. It seems like you just turned it on and you took the temps immediately but maybe you cutout the inbetween video segment. It wasn't obvious. I'm just surprised with that much heatsinking, you can't do more than 0.3A.
Hey there. What are the other flashlights shown? Especialy the one with the domed lense.
This is awesome. I have so many old Vintage lights from the hammered brass Winchester to old daylo's. Will have to try this once. What camera do you use for beamshots. Just curious.
I use my 5DII for the beam shots, and an M50 for the rest.
Nice mod!
What is the GUI firmware flashing tool? I'm just using the AVR command line at the moment. Is it much easier to use?
Snarky, I am using Atmel Studio 6.2. with an Atmel MKII. They are the only tools I have every used. Atmel 6.2 was pretty easy to learn for just flashlight code and editing existing code. Sadly I have never been able to get it working correctly on windows 10 so I keep a windows 7 pc in the house for it. Atmel Studio 7 is even worse, it works with nothing ever, at all, even a little bit LOL.
I cant believe it. I have the exact antique EverReady flashlight that I see in this video. Hopefully
you know how old it is? Have you upgraded it?. The lantern upgrade was great Thank you, Ody
Hi Ody. I've not done much research on the other lights yet. I will be upgrading them though. This Friday I have a video showing 2 more upgrades like this I did last week.
i wish i got the skills you have
That's fuckin awesome man.
How many volts is the leds on the noctigon ?
Well done!! Hey I am in the hauling business and I come across all kinds of lights all the time. If you want more old school lights to play with send me an email.
We done 🇺🇸
2 cool
Hey, you didn't mention what voltage it's running at. Did it originally have a 6 volt lantern battery and you're using 8 D cells to produce 6 volts on the 3 LEDs? Or was the lantern battery 12 volt and the eight D cell batteries are all in series? I only remember 6 volt Lantern batteries. Where they also made in 12 volt?
Also, was that single 7135 hanging in there even though they are only rated to 6 or 7 volts?
It's 8 series (9.6v). I think the lantern battery would have been 6V. There are 2 bulb types that are "for" this light. The ones I got were 6.2V so waaaaaaaaaay over driven with my D cells in there. I had to put 2 dummies in for the factory beam shots.
The power went out at my house while I was editing this video, so I ran it a few hours then, so far so good. I don't think the 7135 chips will be a problem. Back before the zener mod was invented we used to run these using what was called the "poor mans multilux setup". Basically running 3 leds in series buy putting the driver AFTER the first LED.
So, this guy knows electronics, software, and machining. What does he do for a living?
When I removed a 7135 from a qlite, seems like one of the pins is detached from the chip itself, so instead of 3 pins on one end, only 2 stay on. Is this normal? I need to move 7135s from one side to the other so the retaining ring sits flush on the driver on an s2+
Sometimes the chips can break. I use flux on them, and get a fairly large tip on my iron so it makes as much contact all at once as possible. Getting the whole chip hot quickly helps reduced force on it so fewer chips break.
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Can you please tell me The best throwing flashlight for $75 or less. And the best throwing c8 flashlight. Thank you very very much
The best off the shelf C8 I know of is this goo.gl/CFd7kW
Best thrower under 75 is a bit tougher. I actually can't think of anything off the top of my head that would be monumentally better than the C8 under 75 without modding it.
Hey Matt so I was wondering if you still do these kinds of retrofits, and if you'd be interested in doing one on a kind of special light that i own
Hi Colin, right now I'm not able to take on any new modding projects. Hope you understand :)
@@Lumencraft- yeah man that's alright thanks for getting back to me
Neat! Are you still making DX80 video?
Hi Jordan, I may be making some kind of a video with it, but mine died. I was in the middle of making the review and the driver quit. The company did offer to send a new one when more stock came in, however that was a while ago and I didn't hear back. I never contacted them about it again because I have been so short on time anyway it would just be another thing that needs doing..