2AA Maglite 90 degree Swivel head mod - The second attempt works! Beam shots are up

Great stuff yet again, I love watching something like this come together.

Seriously? OL you have far to much patience. Watching with great interest.

Cool project OL! Have you taken one apart before or are you freestyling this mechanism from that creative brain of yours?

Free style. Don’t have a clue as to how to do it. Just winging it.

Nice. You + Winging it = Awesome. Looking forward to watching it unfold. Maybe you’ll need bring back another copper duck foot for this one like you did for the one you gave SB :slight_smile:

Nope, maybe Bigfoot this time.

Most likely a clip on this one.

Anybody thinking its even remotely simply to get as close to 45 degrees on that cut freehand as OL did should try this just to have the joy of throwing away a $10 light. As always watching, learning, and hoping to figure out how to imitate the original.

this is light is going to be awesome. any idea yet on what led you are going to use?

this should be interesting :slight_smile:

That has got to be one of the finest works of flashlight home engineering and mechanical build I have ever seen! You are my hero… :open_mouth:

I can't wait to see what he does for the 2014 buildoff contest thingamajigger! :D

Most likely I will either use a Nichia 219 or an XP-G2 at 1.5 amps with a TIR optic.

I will not be in the contest. I am running it and I will be a judge, but not a builder.

RBD, really the cut is not as hard as it looks. Truthfully, I never thought it could be done, but I haven’t messed one up yet. I tried a miter box one time and ruined two bodies before I went this way.

I’ll take your word on that. You have a good eye, better than most and it shows.

When is this “Buildoff thingamajigger” ?

I agree. Not only the vertical angle, but the blade will lay over slightly too. I always need to leave lots of space in a cut, about a minimags.

That looks great, good idea!
I’m excited to see progress. :wink:

Nice work so far, Justin. Looking forward to your progress.

Look in the new contest forum and see for yourself… I had a teaser thread up on it since the first of the month. The sign-up starts the first of March and the contest starts in April.