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
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.
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.
Bugger it! I don’t know why the second pic doesn’t show??? It comes from the same album.
Yeh, I burned through a couple of drill bits. One bit in particular was head and shoulders above the rest (12.5mm) but I didn’t pay attention to what it was made of when I bought it so I guess I’ll search google for what’s good for drilling titanium. The cutting bits I use are the carbide indexed bits and they were fine.
I’ve thought about joining that group just to see what it’s about but would rather not go through FB. Also I’m aware of what some torches go for on the other forum. I have some mokume waiting to be machined but anything I produce is not intended for sale on the outset.