JoshK's Machine Made Light for the 8th Annual BLF/OL Contest

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:+1: Sorry for the tangent. My mind wanddddddddddddddddddd

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Mine too :person_facepalming:

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Alright, back at it today. So obviously if I put that MCPCB inside a plastic shell it would overheat and then melt my flashlight. So we need to go metal. Let’s look at those options. This is model is hollow as shown above.

Obviously copper would be best, but at $756 plus shipping that would be a poor choice. Steel for $116 might be acceptable if it were guaranteed my design contained no errors, but there are no such guarantees. Furthermore, all that gets you is a powdery piece of metal. This old SLS printing technology from 1988 has a very rough surface that makes large threads suck, and small threads don’t even print.
So from this pricing I can see the path forward is a hybrid design. With a plastic body, but a metal tip. I may even plan to solder the LED direct to the body on two contacts to avoid the issue of how to attach the MCPCB securely.

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What’s that thing AVE on youtube says about the tip?

The Steel price of $23 is pretty good, but I wouldn’t be able to solder to that. The Brass would probably solder fine, it costs $77. Even so, with shipping and one re-order this might cost nearly $200 in the end, and that’s not counting other parts and time. That’s not a good price either.

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Welcome to the RED Zone, mid south is Hot too, maybe worse with little air flow.
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Nice drawing and planning :+1:

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The nice thing about doing most of the work at the computer is I can be in the house rather than out in the garage. When I saw my wife hydro-dipping out on the deck I decided to try my hand at it. :stuck_out_tongue: My hand got covered in paint. But check out my YT play button in red/white/blue :partying_face: It has issues, but it’s my first attempt ever.

Then we went in the pool.

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OMG :open_mouth:
Looks like your fingers have been shredded in a blender. Sure that’s not blood ?
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Whatever you do, don't turn on the garbage disposal...

Ahhh!!!

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Ha, it does look gruesome, but it’s just red/blue paint and water. I might do this again for Halloween on purpose :slight_smile:

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Thanks God.

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Thats scary.

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My wife agrees, this looks good (from a makeup-gore perspective). I thought I was about to read a post about you dropping out due to some accident. I am glad that is not the gore it appeared to be.

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I’ve definitely had my share of nicks and cuts on my hands, but luckily nothing that ever amounted to more than a modest scar.

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Oh that’s a nasty pic. A workmate crushed his fingers the other day and it looked pretty similar :confounded:

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This was your inspiration for the design…?? What exactly are you intending on lighting up?? :laughing: :laughing: … :person_facepalming:

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I always say, the place a flashlight is needed most is “where the sun don’t shine”!

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:laughing: :laughing:

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I finally got a proper an image hosting account today. Dropbox doesn’t seem to work for everyone, and hosting them on my server is cluttering the logs.
I almost chose imgur, but they required me to put my personal cell phone number into their database. NOPE. We all know those things get hacked all the time.
So I chose ImgBB.com. It seems nice. It doesn’t have any basic editor features though, like correcting a sideways image.
I went back and updated my posts with ImgBB links, but there are quoted links I can’t edit. Can I get some help guys? Here are the posts and links you need to know to make it a quick job. It would be much appreciated.

raccoon city - post#27 - https://i.ibb.co/vzt4hJ4/hand.jpg :+1:
Scallywag - post#31 - https://i.ibb.co/vzt4hJ4/hand.jpg & https://i.ibb.co/sQ9GjWw/button.jpg :+1:
pinkpanda3310 - post#34 - https://i.ibb.co/GQz1ppB/sup.jpg :+1:
Scallywag - post#35 - https://i.ibb.co/GQz1ppB/sup.jpg :+1:

Thanks!

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Dund’d

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One ping only…