The SYNIOSBEAM - CFT90 recoil thrower

Enderman you are surely not kidding here :wink:

Hope you could earn few $ with your ideas or this is going to be very expensive hobby investment.

Thanks! :slight_smile:

Haha thank you :slight_smile: It should pay off in the future, personal projects are really important to employers.
Or who knows, maybe I can start a business when I finish university, lots of options!

BUILD PROCESS - electronics


Spent many hours tonight soldering, got about 50% of the electronics done.
Battery carriers, balance and change plugs, and switches.








Nice garage. I couldnā€™t see where the beer fridge was. :slight_smile:
Diggin the work. :+1:

Haha thanks, I wish I had a garage with thousands of dollars of equipment like that.
Beer fridge is upstairs in another room :stuck_out_tongue: Donā€™t tell anyone though! Itā€™s disguised as a pop vending machine!

BUILD PROCESS - more electronics

About 50% done wiring now, and the body actually fits together well too, although it is not finished machining.
Planning how to fit and heatsink the drivers in the tiny 1 cubic inch of space I have left :stuck_out_tongue:

Only wiring left is attaching the voltage and temperature meters, pump, and LED driver to the white connector block.
And also the LED to the driver.

This week I will definitely finish the body and hopefully next week I can start working on the liquid cooling!





FASTAAAA! :wink:

Have you thought about polishing it to make it look fancy?
What about mounting the lens? Do you have O-Rings?

It will get black anodized when it is done machining and test-fitting everything :smiley:

The lens will go on top of the spider.
I plan to put some neoprene tape on the spider so that the lens doesnā€™t directly constant the metal, this will act as a sort of o-ring.
Neoprene will work better than an o-ring because an o-ring this large will have trouble keeping itā€™s round shape.
The neoprene sticks on like tape so I just need to put a strip all the way around the spider and that will make it water resistant :slight_smile:

Since only one side is adhesive I will also have 6 screws around the front of the light keeping the lens from falling out.
This also means the lens is easily removable.

Impressive stuff! Perhaps the folks of Mercedes are actually Illuminati? :smiley:

Subscribed! Will be fun to see itā€™s performance as compared with a Maxabeam.

I meant polishing it before you anodize it. You will still be able to see the difference.

Haha thanks :stuck_out_tongue: it does look like their logo doesnā€™t itā€¦


:slight_smile: Canā€™t wait!


Ah ok, I will try to remove scratches and stuff with a scotchbrite pad but I think the anodizing place also offers some surface prep before anodizing, maybe I can get them to polish it for me.
Do you think polishing will make a big difference compared to just brushed?

Do you own a maglite? Those are somewhat polished I think.

What are your thoughts on the Maxiem waterjet? Iā€™ve run an OMAX for a long time and Maxiem is what I guess you would call their value brand. The software looks to be almost identical which I would expect. Theyā€™re fantastically versatile machines that will cut just about anything, though I was defeated by a piece of carbide.

Yup, an old 4D one :stuck_out_tongue:
I think if I try polishing it then the flaws will become more visible.
Maybe for a future more refined prototype I can try doing that.
If everything is turned on a lathe and milled perfectly it would look best, which I didnā€™t do on this prototype unfortunately.


Canā€™t really give a good opinion since the one I used has been mistreated and screwed up plenty of times by kids who donā€™t know what theyā€™re doing.
But from my personal experience with this one, it is less accurate than the regular omax waterjets which Iā€™ve also used previously.
If you just need quick cuts at large size then the maxiem works great for that.

BUILD PROCESS - chassis

Almost done with the flashlight body, everything fits!
Only things left to do is clean up the surfaces with some scotchbrite and remove scratches.
With the body finished I can start working on the cooling and electronics.
Here you can also see the handle on the light, as well as the 6 screws which will hold the glass on the front.







Hmmmā€¦ Enderman I really did not think that you are crazy scientist but you obviously areā€¦ :+1:

:smiley: Thanks!
It will get more crazy, donā€™t worry.

My kinda guy!

BUILD PROCESS - chassis finished

So all the aluminum parts been cleaned up with a lot of scotchbrite pads to remove small scratches and hand oils.
I think it looks pretty good!
Overall this is as much work as I want to do on the body (at least for now) so I will start working on the cooling system and electronics.
If everything goes smoothly we should be able to get some beamshots next week! Iā€™m excited :smiley: