Titanium build

Flashlight Modding and DIY Parts
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Very original design, quality components, nice choice of materials, I really like it ! It definitely screams for trit slots in my opinion.

Excellent job !

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:+1:

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Nice work pp. The curves look real neat along with the copper pill band adding a bit of colour. What thread pitch do you use? :beer:

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Very nice!

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Amazing work. Looks great! :+1:

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Very Nice build :beer:

I curious about something, do you draw this up on CAD, paper, Napkin at dinner, just in your head, or on the fly ?

Love to see your Creations :beer:

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“Hourglass”

Nice work!

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Heck of a job on your first titanium chipping. The finish looks pretty good. Its even got a lighted tail cap. :+1:
Just food for thought, the Sunwayman V11R and the V10R will both except a lighted tail cap without having to add a bleed resistor.

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Wow, lotsa comments. Thanks guy’s :sunglasses:

After the hunting light I went back to 1mm threads on this one.

I started in my head but eventually had to chicken scratch something just so I could remember the dimensions I was working to

Yes, you’re right
 :wink:

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Very nice pinkpanda3310! Lathing a flashlight out of metal, let alone titanium, is something I could only dream of. Looks like it should be in Star Wars.

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Watcha think your gonna come in here with a home made light like this and think no one would notice? :person_facepalming: :slight_smile:

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I can’t see your second pic in post #13 pinkpanda3310. :cry:

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http://budgetlightforum.com


where Frugal meets with Flashlight!

I believe this is the title around here!

Not FancyhighqualityTitanium/Copperbling.com

where the wife ask how much!

Nice build by the way.

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I reckon there are lots of lurkers but I only so many commenters.

That’s odd :question: Lets try a different host

:zipper_mouth_face: Oops, my bad

 :laughing: :laughing: :smiley: Cheers :beer:

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” pinkpanda3310 ”
Here is the link for a free 2D cad I use if you are interested. It is easy to learn and use. :beer:

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Maybe pp is frugal by not having a wife? :stuck_out_tongue:

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It’s a beauty!

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Thanks CNCman, i’ll keep this in mind. I have a dream of doing a cnc conversion on the lathe one day but I have a hard time justifying it. I just get the feeling that it would not be a huge benefit to me because I do not make repeat parts (nearly always one off’s) and the dwg’s (I’m not familiar with cad/cam etc
) and set up for each part might take just as long as manually machining it from the start. Regardless of all that, the link you provided does look appealing :beer:

Thanks cabfrank :beer:

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My wife is quite small (especially when she stands next to me), is that considered a frugal wife? Or am I the frugal one?

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I have the multi colour tail switch that I ordered from Led4power now. So after thinking about it I wasn’t so keen on laying trits in there with such a bright tail cap.


.and I came up with this idea


The drill bit walked a little and whilst it’s hard to see in the pic the line of holes was not 100% straight. So I cut a groove over them.

I stuffed the inside with blutac but I later found this wasn’t such a good idea. With the blutac blocking the holes inside I epoxied up the holes.

It took more effort than I was expecting to remove the blutac as the epoxy was doing it’s job and was sticking like shit to a blanket. Even after trying to clean it up the epoxy still looks ‘dirty’.

I cut back the outside epoxy flush with the body and reinstalled the switch. The ‘dirt’ is just as easily seen on this side. I don’t mind the epoxy is a little opaque but the dirty bits irritate the crap out of me. Really not looking forward to removing the epoxy and trying again :person_facepalming: :weary:

On the bright side I think it was a shit hot idea


At the end of it all I might make a lanyard hole and call it done.