Thanks lads and good luck every one! I look forward to seeing the lathes at work.

As you can see i have already put in a venting hole

Slightly updated so i have ran into a few bumps lol.

I should also say this is only the inside of the torch it will have a different outer shell.

Its a rush to get this done

I cut both ends shorter
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made it flat and pretty on the threads took of heaps of stock
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20mm partition board
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This was meant to have a wooden outside but i dont think i will have time to complete.

Angle grinder makes such a difference much better then using my reciprocating saw on smaller stock easier to handle besides the sparks going every where. I cut some M8 bolts with the reciprocating saw it works like a charm on bigger item plus no sparks.

Yea i am trying lol. Just done 3 hours or so now. I will eat dinner at 10:30 and go back out. I ran into a few issues.

Making the heat sink and shelf
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Close enough right? lol
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Almost got it!
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press fit shelf lol mallet time
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Drilled wire holes and now i am trying to deburr them?
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Thanks for the tip! I ended up going .5mm bigger in size i was having trouble getting the wires through but they are 22 gauge lol. All that is left is the tail cap but it does work all be it dodgy lol

I glued the optics in place only way i knew how to make it work and be water resistant.
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Hahahaha don’t ask! This needs some TLC.
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Tested with a safer cell first lol
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Tested with a 18650 this time so much brighter.
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So i had to shave down a 20mm board i have no 16mm MCPCBs so i done this lattice bright first. I could not do this to BLF so i shaved down an alloy board XPL-HI even though it pained me lol
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The optics are random ones from Fasttech Ultrafire brand i think. So throw heavy!
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I really wanted to add some wood but i have none and i know nothing about wood so i will see what happens. I want to make this look prettier i will polish it up a tad but i like the rough look of the brass fittings.

Thanks don that is an awesome idea! I just bought a glue gun the other day lol.

I just cleaned up and 5 mins later it looks like this
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Needed to use my good soldering iron to get enough heat into the brass for the driver. 450 degrees Celsius
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Making the switch retaining ring from 1mm aluminum its easier then the 3mm pill i made.
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That is done i just have to widen the middle a tad bit
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This XPL-HI has seen better days lol. I am not sure where i got it from?
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So the light powers on so technically all that is left is aesthetic work. I want to add some tape here and there and maybe some plastic in case of shorts. I think its to late for wood but i may add wood in the future or another scratch build coming up maybe?

We need beam shots! I was thinking about running the XPLHI direct drive and just using a partition board but its on an alloy board so it wont last long.

Hahahaha i was fishing on the Haweskbury river at Brooklyn and i went past some ones house and they where throwing out some old tree wood and i was like on the way back its mine. Then when i was back in Sydney i remembered about the wood. It had a sign and all saying free wood that was my one shot lol.

Might as well add some fishing pics. This is Brooklyn NSW. These pics are a tad older when i went the other week it was raining but fishing time is fishing time rain hail or shine lol.

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Bliss!
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So mine is done for now! Its not what i wanted but it works and functions as a torch.

I stuffed up the tail cap kinda i could not decide what i wanted so i went for a more classic look. I think the rubber boot doesn’t suit the light. So i made another tail cap ending from scratch but didn’t like that so i cut out PVC instead of an aluminium gasket.

I painted the battery tube in and out so its none conductive
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I put some plastic around the driver as isolation
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I wanted to paint it red but then didn’t like it so i stuck with the primer but you can still see some red lol
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I will add beam shots tonight.

Beam shots here! Its actually better then i thought at around 800 lumens i am happy!

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Pics at the usual ISO800

High mode
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Medium mode
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Low mode
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Trees at 70m
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No point in posting the video now seeing as the comp is over.

This is the video on the build its not every thing i skipped some of the build and part 3 will be out soon.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 will be out soon been lazy!

I know its over but i want a light that works always and i can be proud of so i redone my tail cap. I stuffed the threads on the older tail cap i guess constantly rubbing brass and steel together wore the threads out. So this one i will shut the tail cap and leave it like that lol.

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