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

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.

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:


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.

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!!!

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:

Thanks God.

Thats scary.

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

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

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

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

:laughing: :laughing:

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!

Dund’d

One ping only…

Has the bronze/silver sheet turned up?

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.

If it’s going to be a few weeks there won’t be time :cry: .
There are only effectively 12 days left when you take out the holidays and non delivery days, and then you’ve got to make it and write the whole thing up.
I would quickly try to grab a substitute from somewhere or there is a good chance you won’t be able to finish, and that would be a shame.