EDSG 5th Annual BLF / Old Lumens Scratch Made Light Contest (Handmade) Pipe Dream

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Thanks don that is an awesome idea! I just bought a glue gun the other day lol.

I just cleaned up and 5 mins later it looks like this :frowning:
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Needed to use my good soldering iron to get enough heat into the brass for the driver. 450 degrees Celsius
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Making the switch retaining ring from 1mm aluminum its easier then the 3mm pill i made.
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That is done i just have to widen the middle a tad bit
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This XPL-HI has seen better days lol. I am not sure where i got it from?
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So the light powers on so technically all that is left is aesthetic work. I want to add some tape here and there and maybe some plastic in case of shorts.
I think its to late for wood but i may add wood in the future or another scratch build coming up maybe?

We need beam shots! I was thinking about running the XPLHI direct drive and just using a partition board but its on an alloy board so it wont last long.

Hahahaha i was fishing on the Haweskbury river at Brooklyn and i went past some ones house and they where throwing out some old tree wood and i was like on the way back its mine. Then when i was back in Sydney i remembered about the wood. It had a sign and all saying free wood that was my one shot lol.

Might as well add some fishing pics. This is Brooklyn NSW. These pics are a tad older when i went the other week it was raining but fishing time is fishing time rain hail or shine lol.

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Bliss!
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Nice shots .havent been fishing since i left gladstone in central queensland.
Bit jealous.

So mine is done for now! Its not what i wanted but it works and functions as a torch.

I stuffed up the tail cap kinda i could not decide what i wanted so i went for a more classic look. I think the rubber boot doesn’t suit the light. So i made another tail cap ending from scratch but didn’t like that so i cut out PVC instead of an aluminium gasket.

I painted the battery tube in and out so its none conductive
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I put some plastic around the driver as isolation
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I wanted to paint it red but then didn’t like it so i stuck with the primer but you can still see some red lol
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I will add beam shots tonight.

Beam shots here! Its actually better then i thought at around 800 lumens i am happy!

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Pics at the usual ISO800

High mode
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Medium mode
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Low mode
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Trees at 70m
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Congrats on finishing the build :+1:

s. I reckon you could do with a larger lawn mower :wink: :stuck_out_tongue:

I love this type of build edsg. The creativity used to build a light like this has to be admired.
I spot more than a few trips to Bunnings here. Did you ask them for sponsorship? :slight_smile:

Looks super strong, like you could run it over and not even flinch :smiling_imp: Nice smooth beam too.

No point in posting the video now seeing as the comp is over.

This is the video on the build its not every thing i skipped some of the build and part 3 will be out soon.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 will be out soon been lazy!

Sometimes when I wander through the plumbing aisle at a hardware store, I wonder what kinds of lights I could build with the parts. Now I know!

Thanks for posting this up on a rainy day :+1:

I liked the sections with power tools the most :smiley:

Nice vids and love the commentary Chris. Thanks for posting it up. :slight_smile:

Cool! Thanks.

I know its over but i want a light that works always and i can be proud of so i redone my tail cap. I stuffed the threads on the older tail cap i guess constantly rubbing brass and steel together wore the threads out. So this one i will shut the tail cap and leave it like that lol.

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You wore it out? Nice effort. :slight_smile:

I think so it was a bit weird from the start it wouldn’t thread on proper you had to angle it and now the original tail cap wont even hold the retaining ring in. The new one holds the retaining ring fine so i guess it wasn’t really me but maybe to much playing around with it made it worse?

Steel will wear away brass right?

Might have just been a dodgy cap to begin with, there is usually some variance in the thread cuts with these type of fittings. Electrical lock rings are the worst, always a couple get tossed from every new box.

Like CRX said. Could also just be very large tolerances in the threads as well.

I know this is way late, but obviously I saw this from the 2020 contest posting and was browsing through the links provided by the OP and, I have to say, this is amazing. I am a newbie, I am slightly “handy” as in a have a SMALL, home shop woodworking shop and some basic metal tools and have only been into flashlights for 6 months but I wanted to consider this contest, and you have inspired me to maybe give it a go. I still know very little about electronics. Amazing Job!