Do It Yourself Special Feature: Building a ROP

A ROP is known among flashlight enthusiasts as "Roar of the Pelican" and is a popular project using a 2D maglite as a host and some special parts.

If you have a 2D Maglite around you or can get one easily you may be interested in this Mod. Without any special skills needed, no soldering, no sanding, nothing you can turn your 2D maglite into a flashlight Beast with more than 500 lumen of power in your hands.

This article published as a special feature covers all the materials you need for this project, pointers to some places to get them and instructions for the job. Once you have all the parts it just take 10 to 15 minutes to build your ROP and the result can be very rewarding.

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Special Feature: On LEDs and Colors

When choosing a LED flashlight many times you are offered a choice of colors for the LEDs, there are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, cyan and many other colors for LEDs; the big question is how should you choose? When do you need an orange LED? What can be a good scenario for using a green LED?

In this small article we present the basic properties of the different LED colors and suggest some scenarios where that particular color can be useful. From Infra Red LEDs to the UV LEDs seen on CSI TV shows.

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Special Feature: Working with paracord

Paracord is an excellent material not only as a useful piece of rope that is not bulky but also to create interesting objects and crafts, the strength of the cord and the available colors make the options endless.

In this special feature article we will present some ideas, tips, links and examples about paracord objects.

We will quickly show how to learn some of the most used knots to produce fobs, lanyards, belts, bracelets and other useful and nice looking objects.

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