Hello from the Netherlands

Hello from the USA! I’ve been in the electrical field my whole life. I worked as a technician in a stereo store for a few years. Then went on to wire and service offset printing presses up until I retired a few years ago.

Hi SpAwN and Borri! Welcome to BLF! :partying_face:

welkom - welcome

Very nice deals, have also de BLF A6 and Convoy C8…excellent tools !

Gearbest has nice storage boxes (brand: Fura)

Iwan.

Hi guys, thanks for warm welcome.

I have seen couple of you guys in some topics, nice to be here.

Believe me, my wife give up upon me after all those years with my hobby’s, so she won’t say much :stuck_out_tongue:

I forgot to mention, electronics is my hobby and I also like to work with mini mechanical equipment.

Here couple old pictures of my workbench/hobby room:

Wow!!
Impressive! That’s a very nice collection of tools and equipment!

A lot of potential flashlight making equipment.

Just WOW!
Apart from the large and extremely tidy workshorp, I’m especially jealous of that extensive Proxxon line-up! :open_mouth:

Oh man, that is a serious looking hobby room/workshop
That looks like you have already invested a fortune, looking at those DMM’s, and all those proxxon tools, do i see a small lathe? Where do you live? It seems you can make something :heart_eyes:
We should do a dutch meet-up sometimewith all fellow Dutchies

I like to collect stuff, the DMM’s and Proxxon’s are collection of past 20 years.

Buuuut, unfortunately the lathe is gone, one of my best friends was very interested in the Proxxon lathe so I sold it to him couple months ago. After being here I see a lot potentials for a lathe, but I didn’t use the lathe last couple years so I thought I can make my friend happy and maybe stop him whining about it, now he whines about the mill sooo…

But still got enough Proxxon tools, the lathe was actually little bit too small for most things I wanted to build. So who knows maybe I get another one with bigger center distance but still in small form.

Welcome .

Welcome aboard SpAwN. :smiley: That’s one amazing man cave you have there! :+1:

Welcome to BLF, I see you already have the flashlight bug, guess it’s too late to issue warning

Welcome… impressive room, a true techy. Cant wait to set mine up like that.

Welcome Spawn, I guess the fence is off the dam now :stuck_out_tongue:

Enjoy BLF!

Welcome SpAwN, and also Borri and iwandutchy. Wow, the last two of you are almost my neighbours! I feel the birth of a Dutch chapter coming. Let’s buy some more BLF GT’s, and we all will be outlawed.

Sorry friend, but this can’t be done :smiley: Specially after seeing those shelfs :open_mouth: Amazing!!!
I guess you’ll have to have another one for you future flashlight collection :smiling_imp: Eheheh!

Welcome and be happy here :+1:

Welcome to BLF SpAwN! Most impressive work room. Building lighted tailcaps is a fun challenge. I’m sure you’ve seen this link pertaining to lighted tailcaps, but just in case: D.I.Y. Illuminated tailcap.

Thanks for warm welcome again guys, I think I will spend a lot more time here than I suppose to :slight_smile:

I was thinking about the Vaping batteries I got, those are 40A discharge with lesser mAh since the flashlights I ordered doesn’t need anything near 10A, I decided to get couple LG MJ1 10A 3500mAh, I hope these will work okay and keep the charge long time.

Thanks for the link NeutralFan, believe me I read all 57 pages couple days ago :smiley: I even ordered some PCB’s from Oshpark, PD put a lot effort in those PCB layouts I am sure it will be good. I am not much of a SMD solder guy, but I have couple decent soldering stations (even one Proxxon, go figure :stuck_out_tongue: ) and a hot air rework station. But my eyes and hands are not that good as it used to be, but I am sure it will come around.

Here Proxxon soldering station for techies among us, it is pretty rare:

Thanks for signing up, SpAwN!

Welcome to BLF.

Also solder paste is magic. Or at least as close to magic as I’ve seen.

Great, I have enough of those :wink:

Just sign up for The FW3A a TLF BLF special, also eyeballing at the BLF Q8 if the price drops I might get one and it is not even useful for me… but it looks awesome :sunglasses:
Like I said before “Someone needs stop me!”