WOW!! nice work. Whats the advantage of brazing the copper pill together as opposed to soldering it?
It’s stronger, a brazed joint is almost as strong as the base metal. Not as good as welding but far better than tin solder. A pill may get additional soldering for the driver or possibly a soldered in mcpcb and a brazed pill wont fall apart or leak solder from previous joints. If I had a metal lathe I would use it, this is the best I can do with what I have. Nothing wrong with others doing what they can with tin solder if that’s what they have.
Excellent work, RBD. Can’t wait to see the finished product! :+1:
Wow. This is looking real sweet RBD. Your patience needs bottling. :+1:
Sorry. It only comes as an herbal flammable though I hear with recent changes in the law it may get marketed to vapers. Just kidding, my supposed patience is only mislabeled OCD I’m like this most if the time. :person_facepalming:
Great work sofar, I wonder if you can recognise the sk68 after you’re done.
Fantastic job. Will be the most elegant Sipik 68 ever when completed! :+1:
Great job, fantastic mod all the way. Combining different materials results in precious, one of a kind gem.
Did you, by any chance, made a video or a tutorial on brazing? What materials (brazing rods, paste) do you use to join pieces together?
mad skills being showcased here. Lemme go put on some :nerd_face: & take some notes…
I’m keeping it pretty close to stock in shape but wood instead of knurling and maybe a different clip.
Tbh I’m not very skilled at brazing. If I were I wouldn’t improve as rapidly. I mostly braze with wire and paste flux using a MAPP torch but some small items can be done with paste alloy and a mini butane torch. It just depends on how much heat it takes to get up to brazing temp which for copper is glowing hot. There are plenty of vids by much more skilled people many of whom you’ll find modeling trains and such. The biggest difference is that the flux has to be completely removed unlike some soldering fluxes. A hot water quench breaks off much of it but the rest has to be removed mechanically or chemically. I use Fuze Clean FS in a small container. It’s reusable for awhile but apparently ultrasonic cleaners allow a lower concentration of the stuff. The units cost $30-$80 and a years supply(for me) of FS is only $15 so I’m not yet sold on the idea.
Thanks for all the comments guys. Who says modding and budget are going away?
Looks like a Sipik to me. 
Looks ORSM RBD. Love your work. :+1:
Nice! Very well done! It still looks like a sk68 alright 
Nicely done, entertaining read and project.
I especially liked the 16650 conversion!
Cheers,
Splott-Light
Thanks SL, both the brass sheet and brass tubing are K&S precision metals products sold online and in hardware and hobby stores. The brazing isn’t necessary, solder would do for any of this I just think of solder as a temporary connection and brazing as a permanent one.
Dude, that is pretty awesome! Take an ugly POS and make it a good light, I tried one and gave up…
A true textbook contradiction to the “You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear” adage.
Kinda passed this thread because I saw the pill fitted with coper in the “mod today” thread. Geez, even as I looked at the pics scrolling down one by one, my thoughts and anticipation of the next pic were never close. Direction it went was off by a mile from what I expected next.
Very nice work.
Great work, thanks for sharing!
That is amazing work…especially with the makeshift lathe. So much work into a $4 host, but end result looks awesome.