Recommendation for lathe work?

I’ve seen some great works on this forum and was hoping you guys could recommend me a member of our community for some work I’d like done for a small build. I believe what I need is someone who is good with a lathe.

My goal is to make a shorter p60 light, possibly to run on 18500. The idea is to take a p60 host body, cut it down and rethread for the tailcap. Then maybe some small detail work.

chicagox is good with the lathe, also VestureofBlood

still want one of DNFs bottle jacks, but hes from down under where the toilets flush backwards. do the clocks also spin backwards down there?

Hi,

Have you checked out the SolarForce L2M?

http://www.solarforceflashlight-sales.com/product_detail.php?id=485&s=2&t=FB

I don’t have one, but I think it will take 1xCR123 or 1x1640 and has various tubes available.

I have done something similar without a lathe. Cut a section out of the middle, then bore the two end pieces to press together over a section of copper pipe. The pipe is completely hidden when it's put back together. Obviously works best when the design has a feature you can use as the mating point so it's least visible.

Thanks for the recommendations. I actually own 2 L2Ms and run 18500s in them with shortened drop-ins. I wanted to be able to run an 18650 though and still shorten the host.

No, not backwards but the 12 is at the bottom and the six is at the top so they have to stand on their heads to read the time

I can’t comfortably grip a shorty L2M (except with an S4 tailcap) yet it’s still not small enough to slip into pants pockets. I reckon an 18500 P60 body would about split the difference between ideal OAL and useful compactness.

The guys Pulsar recommended do good work.

Dont worry about the cuckoos or clocks running backwards or the water spinning the opposite way running out off the bath. get you dates right guys. Todays date is the 30.6.13. NOT 6.30.13. There are quite a few guys in the states that do lathe work. Chicago X has been a little quiet lately.

Dont worry about the cuckoos or clocks running backwards or the water spinning the opposite way running out off the bath. get you dates right guys. Todays date is the 30.6.13. NOT 6.30.13. There are quite a few guys in the states that do lathe work. Chicago X has been a little quiet lately.

+1 to ChicagoX… a real craftsman and a great guy.

+1 to chi x and

+1 to sorting your calendar’s out, what kind of idiot puts the month before the day? Seriously day/month/year - ascending order of time, its dead simple, sorr it out.

+1 vestureofblood, does really nice work.

Old-lumens has a neat video showing how to mod a tube called “human lathe” I think.

So then why is it universally/globally accepted to be Hour/Minute/Second - descending order of time? Shouldn't it be

year/month/day/hour/minute/second or

second/minute/hour/day/month/year?

:)

PPtk

I’m happy with that, as long as it’s consistent. Although having another Brit call someone out over units of measurement is a bit rough - in a land where speed and large distances are measured in miles/ miles per hour whereas small distances are in metres and mm. Petrol (gas? hurrumph) is measure in litres and beer in pints, bananas in kilograms and people in stones (!). Having lived in half’n’half UK, metric Australia and NZ and fully imperial US, I don’t know whether I’m coming or going, or even how far I’ve gone in the process :slight_smile: