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.
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.
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. My hand got covered in paint. But check out my YT play button in red/white/blue It has issues, but it’s my first attempt ever.
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.
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.
It will be a few weeks until it is due to arrive. I took the cheapest steel option they had, they call it “polished bronzed-silver steel”. That’s going to be an interesting material to check out. It’s been years since I ordered anything from Shapeways, and I have never ordered anything but plastics from them before. This is going to be a first for all of us to explore.