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I thought those ingredients were inherent, like eggs for breakfast J)
Well I hate to admit it, but I once build a light from galvanized pipe and a P60 dropin. It was so ugly that I dubbed it āthe fuglightā. I should have taken pictures before throwing it in the garbage can. What a hideous obamanation.
Iāll have to try some if the medicinal inspirational additives listed above before I break out the soldering iron again. Can I dowse a rag with xylene, toss it into a paper bag and use it as a creativity inducing inhalant?
You know the original light built can only be improved on.
Handmade and fugly is what yāall can expect to see from me. Thanks, O-L for thinking up this bit of awesomeness.
My thoughts exactly. 
Nothing like borrowing someone elseās idea.
Yes, but you could of had a V8, eggs Benedict, and a cappacino!
Mr Moose, fake, ruse builds will be considered grounds for DQ. 0:)
And yes, since the builds will all be posted, Iāll be on the lookout for good ideas to
steal industriously espy.
This is a great Idea Old-Lumens!
I hope I will find the time, energy and parts to make something decentā¦
If this becomes a success. I would recommend for the future (or maybe right away) , that the time frame becomes longer. As some here have already said, free time to do a build from scratch can be lilmited compared to the time It would take. And if parts are needed, well, sometimes parts from China wont even arrive within a month.
More people will be able to participate with a longer time-frameā¦
If this could become a montly thing, well, 12 unique builds a year! We all know only Old-Lumens seems to be up to such thingsā¦ 
Us regular mortals on the other hand, It will easily become too muchā¦ Ofcourse, one could always pass, but longer time frames, would automatically make it easier for more people to participateā¦ I thinkā¦ These are just my thoughts, I may be wrong.
Im probably up for the challenge though!
I thinkā¦ I have to shop some ingredients firstā¦
Halucinogenics mixed with some sort of liquid might be a good startā¦ Ill see how the brain-storming goes, and take it from there. S)
Thanks for the tips Rufusbduck!
What does this mean? What I think it means?
I may have to work my design around a Scotch bottle and a candle as there aint going to be anything delivered from China in the allotted time. Is this part off a ghastly plan to make people think? Panadol please.
We need some new comers jumping on board. Nows your chance and there is a cash incentive to make it worthwhile. This could be the start off a new career for someone with recognition worldwide through this forum.
My brain is whirringā¦
sweet! Well, I often hold my head in my hands, particularly when I realise I put something on the car backwards, so itāll be sort of hand held too The only problem Iāll have is holding off on this before the start date. Guess Iāll just have to LEDify a desklamp in the meantimeā¦
looking forward to all the great lights that are about to be born! Iād put my money on RBD personally, although I could always send him some 95% ethanol from the lab to ādistractā him J)
Really great idea Old-Lumens! This thread is going Sticky and Frontpage.
Hmmā¦.yesā¦yesssā¦.nothing like a competition to get the creative juices flowingā¦
I have so many ideas!
Currently, my main problem is deciding between all the ideas!
Once the decision is made, Ill get a new problem. Can I make it happen in a decent way.
Are we not allowed to start ātinkeringā with parts and such?? I would like to maybe start slowly, this weekend, because Im not sure I will use the āhostā that I am planing on usingā¦ (Relax, its not a flashlight hostā¦) And the best way to find if I can work on/with it, is to do a little work on it. I will not post anything about it.
I'd love to be in this one but I have too much going on right now to complete in a week. Can't wait to see the entries that turn up in this! 8)
Sounds like fun. I should be able to whip up something.
Ok then, I'm in, for the one without machinery. I will have a hard time not using the electrix sander though....
Well, good news then; it doesnāt start until the end of next week, and runs for three weeks
Iām pondering but I donāt see me taking part, although I do have a mule light idea brewing thatās been in the āI wonderā stage for a while.
One tip for people worrying about parts, you could aways strip a light as a donor then order the parts to replace, ie a c8 or p60 would be easy to replace the parts you borrow till the post man does the medical resup.
Well thatāll teach me to read things better. I will have to think this one out some more. Iāve had an idea tossing around in my head for some time now. looks like I need to seriously consider it as feasable.