Closed: 3rd Annual BLF Scratch Made Light Contest

[Old-Lumens]

Good to see new members signing up. I hope more members will take the plunge, new or old. The more contestants, the better the contest. We want you.

[_the]

More build threads listed in post #1. More prizes added in post #0. Are we having more fun already? At least I am! :)

ATTN: Contestants! Would you please:

• Make the competition easier to follow by adding the following info to your build thread subject:
• • Your name: "MyName's entry to ..."
  • Category: "Hand Made" or "Machine Made"
• PM me when you create the build thread so that I won't miss it when adding links to post #1

[n10sivern]

@Kloepper Knife Works

Someone help talk me out of entering the machine made category. I’m seriously hampered with a lathe that can’t thread, but I’m still all itchy to enter even knowing I’d have to have a really strange design to avoid large internal and external threads.

Go for it Henry. Just make the pieces fit snug, then D&T them and screw them together to secure. This is a make the coolest light contest, not the most user friendly lost in the woods light contest. Regardless, I’d have a screwdriver with me in the woods. Hell, there is nothing going to be user friendly with my light.

[Kloepper_Knife_Works]

The way I’m reading the rules I don’t actually have to own the machines I use in the build, just be the one to program and operate them while they’re running my parts. A whole universe opens up for me if that’s right, I have A LOT of machines open to me at work and the local community college.

[_the]

@Kloepper Knife Works

The way I’m reading the rules I don’t actually have to own the machines I use in the build, just be the one to program and operate them while they’re running my parts. A whole universe opens up for me if that’s right, I have A LOT of machines open to me at work and the local community college.

You are interpreting the rules correctly. Go for it! :)

[Kloepper_Knife_Works]

@*the*

@Kloepper Knife Works

The way I’m reading the rules I don’t actually have to own the machines I use in the build, just be the one to program and operate them while they’re running my parts. A whole universe opens up for me if that’s right, I have A LOT of machines open to me at work and the local community college.

You are interpreting the rules correctly. Go for it!

J)

It’s on like Donkey Kong.

[ImA4Wheelr]

Oh hell, I'm in for the Hand-Made Category.

Scuba Tank Based Light Build

I build will be building a light based on a section of scuba tank. I sure hope the scuba tank is smooth and of consistent diameter inside. K50 and oxygen tank are in pictures for scale. [image] [image] Went from air conditioned house out into warm humid air. Had no cells in the K50 to burn off the fog. [image] The tank is 7.25"/184mm OD (Will be less after removing finish). I may be shooting for something like the below diagram, nut will likely have to scale ba…

[sinner]

oh man this is going to be exciting…

[Old-Lumens]

@sinner

oh man this is going to be exciting…

Especially since you are entering too, right?

[sb56637]

All right!! Thanks a ton to _the_ for helping organize this. Best wishes to all the participants. Have fun!

Sticky’d.

[sinner]

@Old-Lumens

@sinner

oh man this is going to be exciting…

Especially since you are entering too, right?

OL i will be participating in some ways.

[ImA4Wheelr]

Yes, thank you again for running this _the_.

Have another question. Please don't take my questions as attempts to get the rules bent. I will comply with what ever your rulings are. Not pushing for yes' to my questions. Just need an answer so I can plan accordingly.

Are screws allowed for Hand Made?

EDIT: Store bought screws, that is.

[_the]

@ImA4Wheelr

Are screws allowed for Hand Made?

EDIT: Store bought screws, that is.

Nut screws washers and bolts? Yes, that's definitely allowed in this weird contest.

[FmC]

In for the Hand Made category

FmC's Hand Made DIY 2015 comp entry; "WW2 Searchlight". Finished!

[image] [image] --------------------- Below is the real-deal, of which I intend to make a scale version. It won't be an identical copy - that's not my intention, but I aim to make it fully functional. [image] [image] I guess it will be more of a "spot lantern". It will be portable, but it's not something you are going to walk the dog with. -------------------------- Problem solving. * Decision; I was planning on doing a Recoil type setup, & this is still my preferred o…

[MRsDNF]

@Old-Lumens

@Kloepper Knife Works

Someone help talk me out of entering the machine made category. I’m seriously hampered with a lathe that can’t thread, but I’m still all itchy to enter even knowing I’d have to have a really strange design to avoid large internal and external threads.

I believe there have been guys that learned to thread on a lathe that didn’t do automatic threads. I am pretty sure it has been done.https://youtu.be/65sWv212kqoBet you could do it too.https://www.google.com/searchclient=opera&q=making+threads+on+a+lathe+without+automatic+threading&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=cutting+threads+on+an+old+manual+lathe&tbm=vid

Some of us less intelligent people still do it that way.

[Kloepper_Knife_Works]

And some of us even less intelligent people bought a lathe without working feed gears. Threading isn’t possible with my lathe except with taps and dies.

Fortunately as I found out, I’m not limited to using my lathe.

Are CNC lasers and benders frowned upon? If I used them I’d do all the programming and operating, and it’s in a machine shop, so it fits in your description of acceptable tools. No pressure, just checking.

[DBSAR]

my Scratch Build category build topic has begun: 3rd Annual BLF Contest - DBSAR's "End Of The World Light" -UPDATES-5 /09/09/2015

[_the]

@Kloepper Knife Works

Are CNC lasers and benders frowned upon? If I used them I’d do all the programming and operating, and it’s in a machine shop, so it fits in your description of acceptable tools. No pressure, just checking.

In Machine Made almost anything goes, so they are allowed.

[DB_Custom (Dale)]

Interesting, a machine such as a drill press is listed and then limited in the way it’s used? Due to whether or not it’s “labor intensive”?

I’ve used a table saw to cut off bar stock, even to reduce the diameter of bar stock by manually turning the part in order to get a shank that would fit in the drill press. Then I’ve used the drill press to spin the bar stock and manually manipulated the table to use a broken planer blade in a drill press vise as a cutting tool to turn the bar stock down and shape it, much like a lathe but in a very primitive manner. So would this type of usage be prohibited? Obviously, I can’t cut threads that way.

Get ahead of the work with the table and it can pop the chuck off the 25 yr old benchtop drill press from Harbor Freight, sending the part/chuck flying onto a concrete floor and making one scramble to keep toes clear. (ill fitting press fit taper chuck)

Recently made a .500 S&W MagLight with this technique, turning a 1/2” Titanium bar into a hollowpoint bullet for the reflector and pill housing, using brass threads cut off a plumbing fitting to screw this light engine into the .500 Mag brass. Would doing something like this be ok?

Made this 431 lumen XP-L V6 3D light for rdrfronty as a token of appreciation for making my Dad’s day with a gifted live .500 S&W round that he showed off to all his domino buddies. Even made an elephant skin sheath for it to keep dust/pocket lint out of the hollowpoint/reflector.

The actual primer is used to engage the omten clicky inside. Boring out the tapered walls of the brass was fun! The drill press method was used to inset the base of the ti bullet so the light engine would fit inside with the 10mm sinkpad and XP-L. Proxxon rotary to cut the hollowpoint.

(Just wanted y’all to know I’m still doing bullet lights. lol)

So, can the drill press be used in this way?

Don’t know if I’ll enter, trying to give some people some ideas

[Rufusbduck]

Link to a phenomenal waste of time I mean, prize light build thread.