Thanks but, I'm trying the coins soldered first and the if not I'll buy a 19mm plug used for plumbing either brass or copper, seen that done and seems to work! Will post about how it's going!
Yea the end caps used for plumbing like the ones i used on my BLF project they would also work and you can cut them to size.
They have copper ones also i think.
If you get pennies make sure to get old ones, there isn’t much copper in them now! I believe it’s pre 1992 they were copper, now they are just plated steel. Apparently when they stopped them they were worth 1.5p in copper………if only we knew lol!
Well, I just went through our coin collection (saving up for years - 1p 2p 5p in a bottle) had 760g of pure copper coins, 1p and 2p. Easily done with a magnet
+1 here
Although I have a pill and a spacer from kiriba-ru (hence my post above) I will probably need a 3rd spacer but I’m having difficulties to get a “proper” pre-made material. So maybe this method can help a bit!
I tried to make it with 2 coins first which is 4,5mm kd triple with included optic! Seems like there is no 'play" space seems nice and tight! lol! 3 coins is roughly 6mm fits fine still! Should I use the 6mm eventho 4,5mm works too?
I made different heights with coins depending on the light I wanted to put this in. protected vs. unprotected battery.
One S2+ has 8+mm spacer for shorter, really tight batteries. Another only 5mm because I sanded away a bit too much.
Also depends on the springs you are using, which driver, what tail cap, etc
Anyways 3 coins is needed for proper fit! I sanded them smooth and solder them together aswell as solder the top of the pill, where it's about 1mm recessed, flush and sanded it smooth! Now the top of the pill is smooth like a hotplate!
I have done two spacers with coins and it all went well, but then I thankfully found kiriba-ru and his selection!
While making coin spacers is a ton of fun (“I did it on my own”) - you would also have to account for sanding time, soldering, drilling the whole thing and then cleaning. All in all, it is fun to do and a great workout but an actual copper spacer for a few dollars is probably the more economic solution.
Coins however also allow to alter the size of the coin and make different spacers easily - you could combine 16, 20, 15, 20 (and so on) and it looks like more like a heatsink rather than a spacer.