Ervin's try (2nd. Annual BLF Scratch Made Light Contest) update 6/23/2014 finally beam shots of my new thrower

Page works fine for me Ervin, nice build and I hope you win.

There are a lot of multiple views of the same part. Given the number of pics in my build I have a hard time criticizing this but it is where you might be able to pare down the size of the thread without much loss of detail. Documenting these DIY builds adds a ton of time and having to edit as you go makes it even harder but when I stop to take a shot I go ahead and take several but before I upload I pick through the days images for just the ones I want to use and delete the rest. I should delete more. Posting the new work can often take an hour or more and usually happens when I should be sleeping which causes more errors. Ultimately Jerommel is right in that it’s on us to make our posts as user friendly as possible. I was asking about this at the beginning of the contest knowing just how many images are generated in a build but didn’t really understand much. Photobucket does slide shows so maybe just a bare minimum of pics in the thread with a link to the slide show is the way to go. I still don’t completely understand PB yet so every image I’ve uploaded is all in one album which is crazy and unmanageable.

thank you ImA4Wheelr I am very controlled in movements and its unusual for me to make accidents of any kinds. I have only risked once during this three months with one solid cooper wire that put it in my drill to polish it, that was an big mistake. the wire was to long to hold its form and from the big torque (very high rpm numbers of the micro drill ) it lose the straight shape and it bend from one side and i was simply lucky to not get damaged somewhere. when rotating it touch something on table like a kick it hard like an golf stick that kick the ball and some small part that was in table i still don’t know where there are. they just simply vanish. i managed to power of quick the drill very frightened by what happened in a fraction of a sec. next day i bought some protective glasses for the eye, and make sore to not put long straight object in the drill anymore.
ah and forget, have ruined once my jeans bu the drill too but the skin was safe, …. uhm and some fingers fell very hot during grinding of cooper :bigsmile:

Jerommel will try to delete some more photos … really tough situation for me this….

Chrome and 300kbps handles it fine on a 5yo comp, except for 1 pic for whatever reason.

Definitely worth taking the time to look through em’ all though, a TON of tiny details in this light. The further I scrolled the more I kept thinking “this is ridiculous… and awesome” :stuck_out_tongue:
I can’t imagine how long it took to put this whole thing together.
Bravo Ervin.

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I’m sorry Ervin, I’m afraid I can’t do that. :bigsmile:

Wow. You have the patience of a saint. That’s one amazing build right there, great pictures too.

That looks like the eye of Sauron

What an amazing effort. Such an enormous amount of work into every little part and there are so many little parts. Well done. The light is no longer at the end of the tunnel. Its on the unit three streets away. The throw looks to be real winner along with the light itself.

Wow - a ton of work in those last updates. Great determination.

…not a bad beam either!! :beer:

Yes, i agree, and maybe because it’s so many pictures, you really enter Ervin’s weird world of flashlight building.
Fascinating. Organic.
He really does NOTHING like how i would have done it ! :party:

And it seems it’s just me who has problems with the first page, so i guess it’s just another computer ageing problem…

Holy smokes. It lives! :-) I love the mad design and the great determination. Looks like something that is not meant to be invented before 2040! Out of this world! What a show :-)

SICK! And it works and seems to perform too. :party:

Congratulations on your MAD creation!

Wow, what a beam. Really good follow thru on the build. It’s tough to keep all those copper parts and solder from becoming undone, great job.

Nice work condensing the images Ervin. It did seem,to speed the load time for me. Did you use the advanced post editor to do left and right images?

I’ve never thought of using both an aspheric lens and a reflector together… Very interesting idea, and it shows that it works very well too! Nice job.

If you mean for bulk images its just an option from the host.
Just a small update. Make a funn video too in my phone, i am likening being a move director lol :stuck_out_tongue:

Well done Ervin. I like it a lot.

Thank you Bucket really appreciate.

Still on the streets away from home and work, and posting again from phone but wanted to take advantage from some free moments to say a few things.
First i feel to ask sorry for my bad language skills i try as allways to improve but lattely it seems my post quality have taken a hit and this because i have been too tired or with little time and away from my pc to edit properly. I will try to improve but dont wait miracles in this regards :stuck_out_tongue:
Sec. Since i am in the way to my home now as we speak i feel confident i will have time for some last touches here and there and also for a last mini review of my flashlight.

Third,again Thank You All for the support, for reading and the good words, we builders allways take the chance and thank OL for making this possible but i think this time to thank you all for just take the time reading and follow too, because if not for you i will not have taken this seriously and probably there would have been a minus one flashlight made from scratch. So just as to know when we finish something there in the finished product are a lot of component one part material and one parts ideas thoughts and feelings and in my build the ‘magical’ tone and fillings are from you who support it. So when you see the photos and the strong beam from this flashlight just know that the magical aura that sorround it is your bits and contribution in this build…
Ps, if the last sentences do not make any sense to you, just ignore it :stuck_out_tongue:

It looks like you have brought the support wires and stressed skin web farther forward to support the section where the solder joint is in the front circular wire. Very neat!

you have a strong eye Fritz, and indeed the whole structure is stronger now. the build is full with similar things that i don’t have time to comment in the first posts.
regarding first ring, something strange happened about a week or two ago. i let my flashlight on the working desk ok and go home and the next day that particular joint on the ring you are speaking about just was broken by itself… at first i thought how is that possible(its not that easy to brake I had make it with an shape like an open Z sort off that joint) but when i think a little about it i see it was the reflector fault. when i focused it i pushed very hard inside and that was a strong stay for reflector but resulted in much tension in the joint. way it break during the night that is still a mystery to me :stuck_out_tongue:
but now really is a strong structure the bronze sheets with some sort of transparent epoxy from the outside and from the inside angles(invisibile from the eye) with normal epoxy make it way more stronger than what it was before. in fact all soldering joints i have reinforced with transparent epoxy. also the reflector is being hold in place diferent way.
if u think about it making some sort of half sphere or similar to the reflector shape from metal with hand tols, that is not something easy. now that i am thinking about it all others are avoiding doing it. what u see is my solution how to achieve it. its not easy but i cant think of a more easy way to do it right now.

The work of a sculptor, really great light and original. I would have to say your light turned out nothing like I thought it would in the beginning, it turned into a beautiful work of art.