My sincere apologies Mr relic38. I honestly thought you were competing against me. I rescind all negative comments made and my vote will go towards your light and not another certain other member who has accused me of being on some sort off berries. My pain killers are 100% made in a factory. Cheers all.
I finally got in all my parts in… only took three weeks for the Parcel Smashers to get a padded envelope from Oregon to Texas. Fedex lost a package for over two weeks (delivery time was quoted as two days).
Hint, my reflector weighs over 3 pounds… 1500 grams for you Eurotypes.
Pheeew. I thought I had competition again. I panicked when I read the above. I went and checked, your in the hand built category. Lucky me unlucky other guys in hand built.
Rufus, you would be amazed what grows in the outback. Red dust and salt bush. I havent tried that combination. I’ll send a batch over and let you report back. Cheers guys.
The time frame for the contest is less than generous, but the notice especially seems short, if it was initially announced on 5/29 and to begin on 6/8. If its an annual contest, the time frame need not be arbitrarily short, but I digress. The links to the participants threads would be easier to follow if they were attributed to each contestants name as they appear in the “list of contestants” post rather than being scattered in a following post. I do like the concept of BLF build contests and will be sure to give it a go for the next one!
Well, it looks like the parts I ordered aren’t going to be arriving until after I leave for vacation, so I won’t even be able to start working on it until after the deadline. Hopefully I’ll be able to participate in next year’s build. Good luck to everyone!
With consideration to this being the 1st Annual Scratch Build Contest. Just like building a light, you give birth to the Idea first, then improve on it after finding it’s limitations. Next year will be a doozie!
I agree that the links beside the members names, acting as an extension, would indeed make it easier to follow. Some pretty dang cool builds going on here, interesting to me is the actual usefulness once completed.
Sorry to hear that Lunaras, maybe you’ll be able to build it anyway and of course get in a trial run with a build thread?
I was thinking we should have a scratch built driver contest. I know there will be less contestants. We could have a small group decide what the driver format should be. have a few set rules of what the driver sshould include, such as 17mm, 3 modes, no pwm. Though if this actually happens, we should be more creative than that
First time I ever did one of these things, but I probably would have still put a time limit on it. If/when there is a next year's annual contest, I imagine it will be quite different and hopefully, someone else will host and run it. I hope that our Admin will now think about having a contest like this each year. If I had to do it over, I would not have done it at this time of year. Maybe in late April or early May and I would possibly have posted a month ahead of time. I would probably also include a category for best modified factory light.