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The REAL Kryton GB round #3. Taking payments now.






it's the same logo.

Soooo, I've found out that dawn dish detergent is acidic. Hehe, I left the barrels to soak in a bucket filled with Dawn dish detergent to wash off the water spots left on them from the polishing in the flow through system, and to wash off the aluminum, and left them to sit for a few days as I was going through and polishing them in the walnuts. I would then pull one out and dry it off and throw it into the shells and low and behold I find a growth on the side of the barrel... turns out that it bonded with the aluminum dust and started growing back on the aluminum. Needless to say the places that teh growth occurred, I have nice little pock marks where the dawn has started to eat into the aluminum. With all of the delays in the GB thus far, I am just plain not going to deal with them as they are almost unnoticeable. they are less than 1mm in diameter and probably only 5 or 6 spots on each barrel. When I get time, I will take a picture to show you what I mean. Thus far I've polished a total of 12 of the barrels in the shells and as soon as the weather actually cooperates, I'll be starting the anodizing. We keep getting snow and winter weather advisories and since the place I'm anodizing is not heated, I have to wait for teh weather to actually be fairly decent. Still fear not, we are literally days away from the first anodized barrels.
 
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also shown is the failed attempt at laser engraving a polished aluminum host. Seems that everyone that has bare + polished won't have the logo on it. It just rubs right off.
 
The pockmarks are barely noticeable, and won't be at all on any anodized one except for clear. I don't want or need any discounts.

Plus, Kenom is probably pretty much breaking-even to produce these in the first place.
 
AJ_Dual said:
The pockmarks are barely noticeable, and won't be at all on any anodized one except for clear. I don't want or need any discounts.

Plus, Kenom is probably pretty much breaking-even to produce these in the first place.
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I he's in the hole after you figure time, electricity, headache, extra parts, etc. I appreciate all of his help and sticking to his guns. I wish he would just get a break from all of the recent problems!

Oh Kenom, if you want to throw in some of that AL powder mix, from polishing, I will test it and see how it works for fireworks (flash powder).
 
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Ken, I sent back the groove with the impacted 16340 on 4/26 for extraction + new lens. Let's call the repairs "regrooving?" MR
 
daguin said:
Hey Ken!

Have you decided on another switch?

Peace,
dave
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Excellent question!

I ordered a few "replacements" for my first run groove off of the link earlier in this thread but the ones I got where squared off on the button side and wouldn't fit in the tail of the Groove. Hopefully a quality switch can be found for these (and so I can get a replacement for my Groove mk1)
 
I have not. Every time I find a switch that seems to be a likely replacement, they just seem to dissapear off the map. It seems we are destined to use these crap switches.
 
have you contacted Eghemus about the switches he uses? those are really awesome switches.

i dont know if they have the shape fitted for the Groove though....
 
Xtrm2Rick said:
have you contacted Eghemus about the switches he uses? those are really awesome switches.

i dont know if they have the shape fitted for the Groove though....
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Some members have reported "blinking" in some of Ehgemus builds as well.

To be fair though, I have no idea how many (or even if) he has had to repair any of his switches.


anselm said:
This is my workaround for the failing switches:
http://laserpointerforums.com/f51/k...le-1a-switch-fix-inside-62364.html#post897197
Anyone can to it to his own Kryton with a little patience, but besides I'm planning
to get a whole bunch from DX and "upgrade" them all and sell them to you guys.:)
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How thoroughly vetted is your new work around. I am behind you on it, but have not really seen much testing data yet.

Peace,
dave
 
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daguin said:
but have not really seen much testing data yet.
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I am curious myself, I haven't done any heavy testing.
As of now, all I can say, the switch gets slightly heavier to click, and it doesn't
melt itself to death after 1 ~ 2 minutes.
Would a boring video of several consecutive 1min runs do?
 
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