This describes how I feel about it as well. The sort of “faux-vintage” look that so much EDC gear has been going for lately, with the brass, copper, distressed leather, etc.
This is gorgeous. A custom power bank housing with built-in quad emitter flashlight. Love it. Did you make just one or have you made a few? Any build topic on it? :sunglasses:
I made a little set for my 2017 Old Lumens contest entry. Just rechargeable, no powerbank functions but it has a UV array too as well as the quad & red emitters.
so copper works great for all these flashlights that get handed back and forth all day to and from ill strangers…
just saying
why is that so important?
i mean it also is killed by cardboard but i wouldn;t want a flashlight from cardboard
The smell is sweat and oils interacting with the metal, not dying micro-organisms. Which are only about 2% of an average person’s body mass… 35% would mean the bacteria in your body weigh twice as much as your skeleton lol
Copper kills germs but let’s not get carried away. It isn’t magic. It just causes them to degrade more quickly than they would on a lot of other surfaces. It is called the oligodynamic effect. It’s also part of why copper tends to smell. (It’s degrading or reacting with organic materials deposited on the surface, such as the oil from your skin.) It’s cool but it can still take hours for all the germs to die. Consider the circumstances that would be required such that your flashlight being made of copper was the determining factor in you not getting this or any other virus.