Very nice pinkpanda3310! Lathing a flashlight out of metal, let alone titanium, is something I could only dream of. Looks like it should be in Star Wars.
Watcha think your gonna come in here with a home made light like this and think no one would notice? :person_facepalming: 
I can’t see your second pic in post #13 pinkpanda3310. :cry:
…where Frugal meets with Flashlight!
I believe this is the title around here!
Not FancyhighqualityTitanium/Copperbling.com
…where the wife ask how much!
Nice build by the way.
I reckon there are lots of lurkers but I only so many commenters.
That’s odd :question: Lets try a different host
:zipper_mouth_face: Oops, my bad…… :laughing: :laughing: 
Cheers 
” pinkpanda3310 ”
Here is the link for a free 2D cad I use if you are interested. It is easy to learn and use.
Maybe pp is frugal by not having a wife? 
It’s a beauty!
Thanks CNCman, i’ll keep this in mind. I have a dream of doing a cnc conversion on the lathe one day but I have a hard time justifying it. I just get the feeling that it would not be a huge benefit to me because I do not make repeat parts (nearly always one off’s) and the dwg’s (I’m not familiar with cad/cam etc…) and set up for each part might take just as long as manually machining it from the start. Regardless of all that, the link you provided does look appealing
Thanks cabfrank
My wife is quite small (especially when she stands next to me), is that considered a frugal wife? Or am I the frugal one?
I have the multi colour tail switch that I ordered from Led4power now. So after thinking about it I wasn’t so keen on laying trits in there with such a bright tail cap.
….and I came up with this idea…
The drill bit walked a little and whilst it’s hard to see in the pic the line of holes was not 100% straight. So I cut a groove over them.
I stuffed the inside with blutac but I later found this wasn’t such a good idea. With the blutac blocking the holes inside I epoxied up the holes.
It took more effort than I was expecting to remove the blutac as the epoxy was doing it’s job and was sticking like shit to a blanket. Even after trying to clean it up the epoxy still looks ‘dirty’.
I cut back the outside epoxy flush with the body and reinstalled the switch. The ‘dirt’ is just as easily seen on this side. I don’t mind the epoxy is a little opaque but the dirty bits irritate the crap out of me. Really not looking forward to removing the epoxy and trying again :person_facepalming: :weary:
On the bright side I think it was a shit hot idea…
At the end of it all I might make a lanyard hole and call it done.
Nice idea. I use blutac a lot too, it helps if you smear a little grease on it where you don’t want it sticking. Lighter fluid dissolves it.
I would make a lanyard hole (or not) and call it done. It is amazing.
That’s a seriously good idea! Really like it. I would mill the epoxy, making the slot a bit wider and try agin. Will be worth the effort in the end.
Thanks for the tips CRX. I was thinking of wrapping the blutac in cling-wrap. Grease sounds like the way to go.
Thanks guys. I’m busy tomorrow so I might just enjoy the light as is for a few days until I get time to change it.
Nice build :sunglasses: :+1:
Fantastic build and a nice write-up describing the steps taken. Love the (w)hole idea!
That looks so sick pp. Nice work.
I re-did the epoxy. I still ended up with some bubbles but nothing too bad. I polished it a little this time but I’m not sure if I like it this way yet. If not it won’t be much to scuff it with fine sandpaper.
What it used to look like-
What it looks like now-
OMG titanium AND blinky colours!!! :+1: :partying_face: