Hercules Help

[BrewCityMusic]

Well, my slightly used Hercules 350 arrived today and works like a charm (review, photos, specs, etc soon to come after I address a few things) - BUT the previous owner lost the adjustment key and the safety lockout for the tailcap. The laser arrived with a simple jumper in place in the tailcap so it works fine, my question is has anyone disassembled one of these and could give me some pointers as to whether I would be better off replacing the missing parts through Laserglow or would it be a fairly simple, RPL-Type mod to replace the adjuster and/or the lockout (I would like to be able to throttle this thing WAY back for basic use if I can)?

Thanks in advance if there's anyone out there with experience on this, Before anyone else asks YES anything black or dark or even not-so-dark immediately smokes or explodes when hit with this, unsharpied matches passed through the beam at 25ft light immediately, through a CD case in a matter of seconds, and your skin will burn NOW if you're an idiot like I was and try to test it against the beam.

Gotta love big silly toys!

 

[AusLasersSuck]

nice

 

[phoenix77]

I've got a 473nm BLUE & a 593.5nm YELLOW on the way. Can't wait to get THOSE BABIES [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif] Enjoy that HERC, DALE. Please be CAREFUL with that thing, rob

 

[mmykle]

@Brew Man... 503mW peak? Ur a lucky guy!

@pheonix Your getting a blue and a yellow laser? How the holy hell can you afford that?

 

[lasersbee]

Well, my slightly used Hercules 350 arrived today and works like a charm (review, photos, specs, etc soon to come after I address a few things) - BUT the previous owner lost the adjustment key and the safety lockout for the tailcap. The laser arrived with a simple jumper in place in the tailcap so it works fine, my question is has anyone disassembled one of these and could give me some pointers as to whether I would be better off replacing the missing parts through Laserglow or would it be a fairly simple, RPL-Type mod to replace the adjuster and/or the lockout (I would like to be able to throttle this thing WAY back for basic use if I can)?

Thanks in advance if there's anyone out there with experience on this, Before anyone else asks YES anything black or dark or even not-so-dark immediately smokes or explodes when hit with this, unsharpied matches passed through the beam at 25ft light immediately, through a CD case in a matter of seconds, and your skin will burn NOW if you're an idiot like I was and try to test it against the beam.

Gotta love big silly toys!

Hey BCM...
    nice new toy...    
What are you using to test the output power of your lasers... :

Jerry

 

[BrewCityMusic]

Well I WISH I had a LaserBee Deluxe BUT for now I've got a buddy who is in like his 13th year of working on his Masters at UW-Whitewater who measures stuff for me now and then (that's why a few of my toys are still unconfirmed, my "other half" feels I tend to have too much fun when I run up to the campus to see him!)... They have a Coherent of some sort if I recall correctly.

The Herc specs came right from LaserGlow, I emailed them the serial number and whatnot and they were VERY quick in getting back to me with the original specs on my 350.

Oh - and the good news is the guy I bought the Herc from found the keys and the lockout piece so they're on their way WOO HOO!