4th Annual BLF/OL Scratch Made Light Contest- Hand Made 10/31 finished

Thanks for the update TL. It may well of been aluminium the steel wool was used on.

I have almost all of the pieces for the tail cap ready. I have some stuff coming that inhibits the flow of brazing alloy which will hopefully prevent it from wicking into the threads beyond where I want it as it did on MkII. Until that arrives a copper shelf for the pill and a step for the driver would be next along with more work on the switch module. With the pill finished I could make it up with the led and driver. Head assembly could occur at any time now as well.

I think the steel wool will work on a lot of metals. I use it on copper and aluminumā€¦. even on some stainless steel, just not where I might want to patina or anodize. :wink:
TL

The pill will get a dab of thermal grease which is dark grey anyway but the tail cap piece is both more used and more visible and gets a dab of clear silicon which will inhibit patina.

More pill pics starting with 1.8 mm copper sheet. Brazed to 21/32ā€ brass tube After a hot bath Drill, filed, and sanded And brazed into the threaded portion Now the tail cap. It has a brass sheet bottom piece with another centering washer, a section of threaded copper, and a short piece(2.75 mm) of internal threaded brass. The white stuff is the braze stop mask. This is where the small wood piece goes, thereā€™s another part similar to the pill above that will give it a recess for the spring on the inside and a bit of bling on the outside Yup, works here too.
Failed retainer ring

Wow. Just lots & Lots of nice work!!! If I need something brazed I know who to call!!! :wink: I sure enjoy every image and watching the process!!
Thanks Rufus!!! TL

+1 This stuff is amazing to me. :smiley:

What the others have said. Stunning work. :+1:

Weird, images arenā€™t loading properly. The other day I thought it was because my post was too big but this is only one picture loaded the same way Iā€™ve done a hundred times before.

Even strangerā€¦ I clicked on the photobucket link, copied the direct url and it worked.

Looks nice!!

I just ordered this on a canvas print. It should look good on the wall. Mrs will shoot me though. :slight_smile:

Photobucket has been screwy for awhile. I reckon they did an update and things went backwards. For awhile it would take 5 minutes to upload a small picture and I had to do one at a time otherwise it would just hang. And thats with a paid account. :person_facepalming:

I can get it to work fine anywhere but in that post so I deleted it since MtnDon has it up. Even worked in this post as well. Maybe Iā€™ll try adding it to #185.
Edit - worked everywhere but in one post, exceedingly strange.

Gremlins possibly?

The generic scotch brite sponge I tried pretty much disintegrated on contact with the rough copper threads with little effect so instead I tried the quick loc Dremel sanding/buffing wheels that are made from similar but tougher stuff and that worked better. Thanks for the tip TL, it pointed me in the right direction.

Youā€™re welcome Rufus. Thank you for all the sharing of your work. It takes a lot of time to do all of the images and posting. I am happy to send you some of those pads if you like. Thanks again for all your beautiful work. TL.

Tried to make a retainer ring with a brass disc and a section of the threaded copper. I also cut the pill to size and milled a driver pocket for it. Unfortunately the copper part is too soft and poorly threaded to work reliably so Iā€™ll have to use a brass threaded piece instead.
More switch pill and head assembly

Well thatā€™s a nuisance. Lots of work have gone into making that little ring. :frowning:

Ouch! It hurts to put that much work into a part and have it go south. Looking nice though Rufus!! Hang in thereā€¦. there is an end to every projectā€¦.although sometimes we wonder WHERE!!! :wink: TL

Once again itā€™s going down to the wire.