Some people prefer lightweight hosts, but I like them with some weight and room, large heat sinks and ability to accept 26650 batteries and I love them. This doesn't look like it will hold the big batteries, but has a lot of mass for sucking up the heat and a lot of surface area to transfer it to the air. I'm a fin man though, like lots of deep fins.
You just hang tight then, FinMan. I finally got my mill, and I've been practicing. As soon as I get my dirty little hands on a rotary table, that BigAss Fin™ host I designed in SketchUp will see the light of day...or, the light of a laser, as the case may be.
And I'll make it to fit 26650's...just for you!
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And, errbody else...I haven't stopped makin' em, I've just been keepin em! :na:
I was just tellin Rich today in PM that when I saw that host come on the market, I got all nostalgic and stuff, and almost bought it back myself.
Only real problem is time...who would one talk to about switching to metric days...100 hrs each? I could do with 100 hour days! :crackup:
Rich...you mentioned the fact that there are no threads in the focus knob. Are you tellin me that you cut M9x.5 threads in your knobs? Say it ain't so! I haven't tried to cut any that small, but I can imagine it's a total BITCH, and up against a shoulder like that too!!?!! Especially since this is the US, and my lathe doesn't even know how to SPELL metric, much less cut those tiny threads in that language. That knob was meant to have the small knob from a module pressed into it.
-G
