They make flashlights out of “exotic” materials like titanium and copper, what about tungsten?
If you use a tungsten flashlight, you will know you are using a tungsten flashlight.
Everybody knows heavy stuff = high quality!
Tungsten is probably a terrible flashlight material. I want one.
May as well go for Osmium, the heaviest of heavy metals.
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My ring is tungsten carbide. Mirror finish, and almost impossible to scratch.
yeah but no
Ha! If you’re looking for a heavy and completely silly material for a flashlight, use LEAD.
This you can even cast in a DIY attempt and meanwhile contaminate the entire neighbourhood.
If you want to have the real tough stuff, use Unobtainium.
Totally indestructible.
Here's a pure tungsten flashlight, by Tofty....
Check out post #5 on this thread from yesteryear 2013:
Pure Tungsten sweetness.....
....and Tofty's Magnesium UV special
Aren’t those renders ?
Why not Silver?
The UV is, he actually made the others
Quantity of four, even for sale...
I’d definitely get a tungsten flashlight. I have a 4 inch tungsten cube that weighs 42 pounds
Why not plutonium? Also quite heavy, and it has a built in tracking mechanism.
Holy crap, I knew tungsten was dense, but I thought you were exaggerating. I just checked it, and 64 cubic inches of tungsten does indeed weight 42lbs!
That’s why. Tungsten is incredibly heavy and does absolutely make no sense in a flashlight.
With a melting point at 3410°C and 2.000,00 MPa Brinell it can be used as a diving light in molten steel, as long as the glass and the switch and all the internals are made of tungsten, too. The diver needs to learn some super powers before trying this.
Tungsten is a bad heat conductor, so that will be a burnt LED very soon.
So, where is the sense in makeing such a light?
Silver is a great heat conductor and a good electical colductor as well, so that makes sense, as long as one is willing to pay the upcharge price.
Mine are all made from aluminium - which doesn’t exist in the United States.
Ya Midwest Tungsten sells cubes and spheres of different sizes and materials. I love to see the look on peoples faces when they pick up the 4” magnesium in their left hand and the 4” tungsten in their right hand
Cool idea but I don’t know any manufacturer crazy enough to produce this only to sell half dozen lights. If the price is going to be 3-4 hundred dollars for an 18650 based light, how many would they sell?
Don’t drop it.
Dropping a light onto concrete, dissipated energy = m * g * h
Impact forces increase linearly with mass.
The tensile strength / density ratio of tungsten will be way lower than most common materials. Might be better than brass?
Ya some clowns on YouTube dropped the 4” cube off a giant tower into concrete