DBC2, EDC Quad XP-G3, now DBC-04 with XP-L2 and Carclo quad optic

Nice Dale. You and that little lathe will / are becoming good friends. There isn’t much that’s more enjoyable than just building something as you think of it. I don’t get to do that too often but I sure like it when it can happen. Nice clean work. :+1: Keep it up. Dan.

Thanks Dan, appreciate it. I thought of you more than once when I was doing this one, rest assured! :wink:

Two things Dale. Take more sedatives and send me some. Love the light especially with the no tailcap in sight.

What a beautiful creation. Congrats. :)

I like this picture. Kind of looks like you're in zero gravity and the parts are floating away.

Steve, I got the brass ring in tight with no holes drilled by using the point on a cutting tool. It had a sleek look that I wanted to keep, but the dang rubber post inside the boot was too long and the light wouldn’t tail stand without changing modes! So I had to drill the little holes so I could unscrew the retaining ring and get the boot out for that simple shave mod. Sure looked sleek without the tweezer holes. Oh well, I’ll probably put some LED’s and potentiometer on the switch board, it’ll give it that one more special look.

Showed it off tonight to a couple of Special Forces guys and they were totally freaked by the output and size. Got out the Trustfire TR-J20 and the guy was showing me money, wanted it bad! lol (13,500 lumens)

Ran it walking the trash can down to the road, pretty much a 10 minute walk, then those guys and the ex-cop neighbor used it for a while, ultimately came in to a cell down to 3.7V even though it’d been on for most of 30 minutes. So it works out really nice, carries easy, isn’t prone to slip even without gripping it firmly due to that double ridge in the middle. All in all a very handy light. The Khatod optics really make a difference, offering throw that the Carclo’s just can’t do.

Man that is beautiful… When is the production run? I need one ASAP. :slight_smile:

interesting that you put the lighted tailcap board in it, yet you don’t want a lighted tail cap. SO that means this is for someone else :wink:

Amazing build, I like it a lot :+1:

really awesome work, I will use this as inspiration to do a multi-emitter build one day…

This is how I screwed my boot retainer in without screw holes on a light similar to yours on the rear end.

That light looks amazing. Only thing I woulda changed is add some grooves or knurling just so that it looks different than the tail cap.
Extremely nice build!

What a beauty Dale, are the two beamshots photo taken under the same setting? Amazing how much more light the kathod seems to put out! is this the 25mm 10° version?

Wow, that light is beautiful. I wish I had even a quarter of the skill you have Dale.

Nice work.

Nice little beast.

That looks nice with the copper. Makes me wish I had a lathe.

Ha… I see what your sayin’:slight_smile:

Looks like an awesome little light. It’s fulfilling to see the works of your own hands, hey?

Very impressive light
Amazing looking and shining!

>> The crazy thing is, I did this while coming off a double dose of the sedatives I sometimes have to take. I mostly remember doing it, but the time it took seems kinda foggy. lol Just wandered out there and did it.

Well done. Really nice. I do not remember what would have happened if you had taken something more enhanced :partying_face: Flux capacitor?

K.

Nice try Pat! :stuck_out_tongue:

I was drugged Tuesday, from Monday nights issues, DHL brought new Cutter T-Pad quad boards Tuesday around 2:00 in the afternoon and I had just gotten the new XP-G3’s last week. I felt the need to use the new boards so I grabbed up the components needed… I’ve got small Omten and large Omten switches, but I don’t have switch boards sitting around. I only had the lighted board because someone was nice enough to give me a couple to play with. :slight_smile: At any rate, I grabbed what was readily available and headed out to the shop. I didn’t even take a rubber boot out there, so I guesstimated how thick the overall stack would be with the switch pcb, switch, cover plate and boot, cut the necessary pocket into the end of the battery tube and threaded it. Winging it, as it were. I remember pilotdog68 saying these pcbs were very robust and I didn’t need to worry about a through-board bypass, so it made sense to use one here.

The sedative I take is Ativan, used to sort of reboot my system. I have stress and/or cold related muscle spasms (medically referred to as a Conversion Disorder), if I get chilled it can happen and I can get a chill from a breeze on a 105º day when I’m sweating. Difficult to know really just what starts the process, even after nearly 16 years of it. I only take the sedative when the spasms make my head shake violently side to side. This has occurred often enough that over the years that now I get an instant splitting headache and Monday night it was bad enough to make me nauseous. So Tuesday, I had the micro concussion feeling as well as the left-over sedation… groggy, bit of a stagger, probably shouldn’t have worked on the lathe at all. I didn’t go out til like 2:30PM, but then I didn’t come back in til just after 8:30! Lost all track of time, but had TexasLumens’ voice nagging me about safety and keeping fingers and such. lol So yeah, I was making the effort to be careful, but did start getting hurried considering the time and that I hadn’t eaten and darkness was taking over. (the rats move into the shed at dark, and possibly a skunk, so I try to be gone…) I live in the country, there’s cattle fields surrounding the shed and hay stacked outside one wall, heck the adjoining section of shed is a stall and hay loft! So the varmints are to be expected, even if it’s a bit eerie.

As far as mad skills or the use of the lathe, it’s Justin’s fault. It’s all Justin’s fault. :stuck_out_tongue: Him and his crazy Scratch Build Challenges. That’s where it all started for me back with the .50 BMG flashlight build. So his challenge started it, now the lathe that came from him (and BLF) and so it goes, isn’t that always how “mad scientists” get created? :stuck_out_tongue:

Appreciate the compliments, really I do, am humbled.

When you learn to do things, you also criticize your work. Shoulda done this, coulda done that… and sometimes you re-do things that should have been left alone! I now have to take this DBC2 back apart and address how the driver is mounted. I need to make a threaded brass retaining ring to hold it down firmly and make better ground contact and will probably have to cut some threads off the end of the battery tube to keep fitment proper. (Sounds simple enough, right? I’ll probably have to seat the driver a bit deeper in the copper, so I’ll have to be cutting down into the hole where the threads are, easy to mess up copper threads by the way!)

Scary, as I really really like how the light is right now. But you know, it’s an addiction…