The 6th Annual BLF / Old Lumens Scratch Made Light Contest

1st Machine Made competitor joined! Please welcome Flashy Mike: 6th Annual Scratch Made Light Contest - Flashy Mike's machined project

At the very least I have to post in here, right? So, perhaps I will make an attempt to find my brain and see if there’s still something rattling around in there by way of ideas for an entry…

… I’ll be back.

You have shown us all here that you have more than rattles in your brain Dale. Your one of the wiz’s with all things flashlights here? :+1: :beer:

Thank you Steve, but the past year has been difficult and the past month has been brutal. Rattles may soon well be all I have left…

That sounds bad. I hope everything works out okay for you. :cry:

Justin used to say… it is what it is, y’all know I ain’t got sense enough to leave modding alone, regardless of how I feel. :stuck_out_tongue:

Lanterns are popular this year, first three entries….

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I WON’T be building a lantern. :wink:

I’m thinking of making a thrower, using the 200mm condenser lens from Edmund Optics, maybe with the focusing aspheric I removed from a Canon ultra wide angle lens. Just have to figure out if I can make the 4-jaw chuck work on the lathe and what materials I need to get as compared to what I have on hand. Haven’t decided on emitter, thinking about the SBT-70 for it’s round die. That would, of course, reduce throw considerably but would give a fantastic pattern and possibly 2000 lumens from a 3V emitter. I can’t see much over a mile anyway…

Sounds amazing Dale. I hope I have internet access OS. :+1:

hope we see some realy nice builds again this year.
unsure at this stage if I will enter anything.
all the best to all

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And another BUMP. :slight_smile:

Too many things going bump in the night around here! Dang near shot my monitor! :stuck_out_tongue:

Oh, and uh, a friend gave me some bits and pieces, absolutely gorgeous bits and pieces, that may have me going a different direction in this build. :wink:

See what my friend gave me….

Mokume Gane and Titanium Damascus, both about 30mm x 40 mm. So, a new challenge is born… what to make with these 2 gorgeous pieces of exotic bar stock?

Oh wow! :heart_eyes:

Well, those are pretty… What can you make out of two 30mm x 40mm pieces? They’re a bit short and wide for most flashlight shapes.

Could be a set of ten keychain-sized 10180 lights, or maybe combined for a 26350 thrower, or maybe split up for three 14500 lights.

Could make the Timascus into a head and tail, and the Mokume-gane the mid-section, adding a portion of pure copper for the pill. Quad-bore the Mokume-gane for 4x14500 in series and make the light a triple or quad XHP-35 mini-powerhouse!

Or just a 30000 lumens camping lantern …

:smiley: That would be something Dale’s style :sunglasses:
Those are some pretty nice pieces! I don’t know what you’ll do, but I’m sure it will be classy!

Good luck! Looking forward to see your thread as well :+1:

Y’all are killin me! :laughing: