Scratch made hunting light

I did a zoom in on these 2 pics and I see now that the camera was moving when the tk75 pic was taken :weary: Oh well, you get an idea

Hunting light

TK75vn

Mmm. Looks like ‘meat’ already on the table…

Well, I guess your friend won’t be missing any shots with THAT light! Good job, pinkpanda3310!

Nice job. I think your friend will be very happy, from looking at those beam shots.
Should be able to spot grasshoppers at a 100 yards :wink:

Looks good mate!

How many modes is the driver?

Thanks guys :beer:

Without having used it he seems happy so far. I gave him a link to this thread and that was the first beamshots he saw of it (he’s seen during daylight hours). The light may not be perfect but with all the parameters set at the start of the build I think I landed somewhere on the target :innocent:

The drivers ‘can’ be 4 mode by toggling through different connection points. He preferred a single mode so I hard wired both drivers at 2.5 amps. Driver 1 powering 2* xhp35 in parallel and driver 2 powering 2* xpg2 in series. I could bump up the current on the xpg2’s but I don’t know if the voltage regulator would handle the extra power output.

Whatya mean he hasn’t used it yet except for in the daytime? Its the weekend for crying out loud and its not been used. Get that whip out and tell him to get out there and give this light of yours a serious workout. We need info here man. :person_facepalming: :stuck_out_tongue: :slight_smile:

Lol, someone is holding up the program, as in, I still have the light in my possession :person_facepalming: :smiley:

Well thought thru process with excellent results, Great Job pinkpanda3310 and sweet follow up pics and video. It is so nice to see a polished craftsman at work. :beer:

“polished craftsman”….? That would be moose (MRsDNF). When I grow up I want to be a machinist like him :sunglasses: but thanks for the compliment anyway :beer:

You are far to humble pp. I concur with CNCman. :+1:

lovely work! Looks really solid.

For future projects where you need to cut a disk out from solid (or a large center out of a round) try grinding a trepanning bit. It’s like a cut off/ grooving tool, but ground for clearance under the cutting edge to allow you to plunge into the face of the material. Mine’s about 2 to 2.5mm wide and can cut about 20mm deep. Doesn’t take long, wastes relatively little material and it’s easy to tidy up the edges with a boring bar or turning tool.

Thanks for the suggestion Matt. Will definitely look into it on next occasion. :beer:

Nicely done PP, love the thought process and execution… now you can tell your buddy that you thought it’d look better with a battery tube on it and in your flashlight collection. :smiley:

Loved the idea of using aluminum plate clamped in the tool holder to mount the project on and use the lathe as a mill, will have to keep that in mind. :wink:

One of these days I’m going to have to mount my 6” 4-jaw chuck and see what I can accomplish. Steve tells me it’s easy, perhaps it would be easier than some of the wack things I’ve been having to do with my 5” 3-jaw…

Great work

Did I happen to mention that you are my long lost brother :wink:

That is in need of a new hunting light.

Thanks Dale. If your wack methods get the job done then they can’t really be that wack can they? Besides, I’m finding that 3 different machinists will use 3 different methods to get the same end result, so there is no right or wrong way. :wink:

MISSED…? MISSED, is that you…?? Hey how are you old buddy? Hang on, I never missed you. How come the ’lations only visit when they want something? :laughing: :smiley: :wink:

I hear what you’re saying PP, truly, I do, but succeeding doing it wrong is not doing it right. I was making the LOC (Light On Cash) adapter from a 1.5” long bar of 2.25” 6061, had it threaded onto the M8 pill and flipped it with the pill in the lathe so I could shape the new 6061 part, right? Dummy me tried a plunge cut in the middle of the bar and the cutting tool hung and spun the part off the threads where it fell onto the compound slide and somehow got traction and shot into my stomach! Like getting hit in the gut with a fastball. So I’ve officially been nailed by a flying part. Didn’t do any lasting damage to either me or the part, got lucky there, but it was one of those times that wrong was definitely wrong! lol

Hahahaha, it’s good to hear there was no damage but that was funny :laughing: :laughing:

I’ve had some mishaps too but nothing particularly striking (or funny), just work pieces working loose in the chuck and/or chipping tool edges etc… I’ve got a set of collets now to help with grabbing thin walled stuff but they only go up to 26mm. The larger stuff I’ll need to make up a mandrel. It’s all a learning curve :student:

Well then, this should also be amusing… I was building my Titanium/Copper EDC Quad and was machining the Titanium. I was going slow as I don’t have a coolant system, but the fine threadlike shaving was piling up on my cutting tool and I kept having to stop and remove it so I could see. One time I didn’t stop soon enough and the very fine ball of titanium wool caught fire! I knocked it off and it fell in my shaving’s box below the table top, right next to a gallon of WD40 with a low flash point! So I dragged the shavings box outside the door onto the gravel drive and left it there to burn. (About 10’ away from me, several feet away from the opening of the door. The door is an 8’x 12’ slider, only had it open about 6’.)

Bad day, right? Well, box of shavings still burning, several minutes later, broad daylight, a blamed skunk came by the box that was on fire and moseyed right into the shop with me! He literally passed by the burning box within about half a meter! (18 inches or so) I spoke to him, told him I was there first and no I wasn’t sharing any lathe secrets but he ignored me and went on into the shop behind me. Now what! Box on fire, skunk behind me… couldn’t even shut down the breaker box as it was over where the skunk went. I left the shop and cut off the main breaker in the house, but that also killed half the house current!

I went out and shut off the breaker and left the shop alone til the next day, where I continued and finished my EDC Quad in Titanium. Carefully listening and watching over my shoulder the entire time!

He must have been rabid, I found him dead on the shop floor several days later. Freaky!

(That light was this one, DBC-04, my 4th full build. Still wear it daily)

Impressive work!