I have a Harbor Freight store conveniently close by and stop there on almost a weekly basis and can always find something I want. There is usually a conversation like this:
Me: (picks up item) Wife: "What do you need that for?"
Me: "For my stuff..."
Wife: "Oh. For your flashlights."
They usually have some really awesome deals in their coupon flyers. Right now, they have a 800 Watt generator for $89 after their coupon; my brother has one and it works great. I'm going to buy one for backup power for the well pump...
I'd try to keep it that way .I know how nasty copper gets after 3 years of being under the sink with water dripping down the side of it ..I'm not sure about clearcoating it and then heating it and cooling it .
Guess the trick is to do nothing let it tarnish and see how hard it is to spiff it back up to showroom condition again
I assume a little polish now and then would let it dull and gain a nice patina with time, the wear points being smoother and shinier than the other parts.
Which now reminds me of the bronze statue of Peter Pan in London's Kensington Gardens. The base is covered with cute forest animals, while the rest of the statue is that dark chocolatey brown you would expect from a bronze - the animals heads are all shiny from a hundred years of children stroking them :)
ALways loved the simple look, such as the F22, and this is simply just right. I just hate the idea that the metal will tarnish. Fingerprints on a more permanent level!! EEEPPP!!
My all time favorite is the original Jetbeam E3P.
Great to hear the non cool whites are coming into fashion! As always, its something that needs to be seen in person before you can really comment on whether you like it or not.
So does the pill assembly/dropin slide down each time the battery is replaced and then it's all pushed back into place when the new battery is inserted?
just saw this thanks to old lumens linking it. ingenious build.
i think it'd look super cool knurled (technically, you don't HAVE to use a lathe...but you could probably buy a lathe off craigslist for the cost of a hand knurling tool lol). I can just imagine what full knurling would look like after weeks of edc - sort of multicolor probably...
> pill assembly/dropin slide down each time the battery is replaced
You can solve that by finding a little rubber ring that will fit snugly behind the pill inside the tube — that was the solution for the same problem with M@g AA dropins sliding back out.
I’ve always wanted to build a flashlight, but don’t (yet?) own a lathe…
Now, my first build will probably look like this (minus the perfection, plus some beginner mistakes)!
I’m late to the party, but this is a gorgeous light! Might just try one my ownself, my last build of a triple impressed my aunt so much with it’s output she wanted one really bad, and she loves copper. So sometimes certain things just kind of go “click” and that’s that!
Thanks Match, another great build even if it’s been in the woodwork for a while.