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

Rufusbduck · October 31, 2016, 10:41pm

All set to assemble the switch pill. Here are the two boards glued together(contact board has a notch for the led board). Here’s the backside, led is connected to the contact board after the switch. JB weld is used to isolate the metal bottom of the switch from ground(case). Will it fit? YES! Now to solder up a positive spring pad that I ground thinner and smaller from a 1-mode nanjg board. Then soldered it to the red wire and JB welded it in place. Sliding it into the battery tube it ended up pretty well centered. A solder dab on the locator/ground wire will fix it in place but that’s after the finishing us done, probably Sunday. All the rest of the brazing and fitting is done, woohoo.
Finishing up

MRsDNF · October 28, 2016, 2:01am

I love it and understand it for once. That is so novel. :+1:

MtnDon · October 28, 2016, 2:07am

Amazing! RBD’s work that is, not DNF’s understanding. :person_facepalming:

Rufusbduck · October 28, 2016, 2:33am

So far everything has tested out functional but it won’t get a current draw test until the very end when I hope to do beam & glam shots. I’m pretty psyched though.

DavidEF · October 28, 2016, 11:47am

Looks great, RBD! I’m excited too! I wanna see the beam shots and glam shots!

TexasLumens · October 29, 2016, 2:12am

Nice work….and a ton of it Rufus!!! Super duper innovative and beautiful even before finished.

Thank You For Sharing All This Work!!! TL

Rufusbduck · October 29, 2016, 2:34am

Thanks TL, when I modded a 502b last year with a cherry tube Steve suggested I make one all of wood so this year I went for it. Not quite all wood but a lot more wood anyway.

Old-Lumens · October 29, 2016, 2:52am

You’re psyched? I’m falling off the edge of my seat! I would say I love you but no one would understand, but I love your work for sure!

Hell, must be the med mads...

Rufusbduck · October 30, 2016, 2:19am

3rd of 4 coats of epoxy done so tomorrow night I’ll polish it up. Dry weight of host only is roughly 106g.

TexasLumens · October 30, 2016, 3:07pm

Beautiful Rufus!!! Tell us…me…. About finishing with epoxy. I don’t work with wood much but I am sure curious as to how you do that.

GREAT WORK!!! TL

FmC · October 30, 2016, 9:20pm

Have not checked in here for a while - this work is astounding!

Rufusbduck · October 31, 2016, 9:10am

Thanks FmC, this is the final build post, it’s all done. :weary:

Some final fitting and glue ups. I trimmed the front end threads to length. Glued 3 trits to the back of the tail cap cabochon. Glued thd switch cabochon into its holder. Also sanded out some scratches in the brass bezel and aluminum fins and polished them. PAfter the cabochons had cured I glued the larger one into the tail cap resting it in a flat surface so it will be sure to tail stand without rocking but still be as far out as possible. With all the parts now ready it’s time to put it all together. And see if it works. All seven modes work perfectly including batt check (Mtn17DD) but I’ll probably switch to 4. I’ll just show moon and turbo since the camera makes the rest look pretty much the same. The wall is actually a pastel green so tint is skewed. At seven feet the hot spot is roughly 7” across which is ok for such a small reflector even though it’s deeper than a p60 the OD is about the same. Size wise it’s a tad longer than an L2M but still has a thinner head so it’s pretty handy, especially with the thumb switch.