Even at night.
If they delivered at night, yes, even at night. But that would be as much due to my fathers newly acquired night vision goggles as any of my lights. 
So far, my furthest throwing light is 3/4 mile. Still working on bettering that from a single emitter. Might beat it when/if I pull off my plans with the Terminator, we shall see. 
What’s the max amperage an XM-L2 can handle? While the MT-G2 is awesome in the M8, it doesn’t throw really far. Not sure I’d want to change it, but it might be viable to have some options…
Extraordinary work. Thank you for taking the time to document it.
Wow Bucket, a really professional and beautiful project! Dale, I sure am jealous! That copper core truly compliments the olive green military look of your M8.
Bucket, would you be able to anodize the copper pills so that it blends in with standard M8's? :D
Once again, I thank everyone for the compliments.
Lothar, I have looked for a local anodizer for aluminum but have not found one yet. I have not even thought of anodizing copper. A quick search does not make it look promising.
Post #2 updated with the first of probably 3 videos. Note that most of the video is of the first, scrapped piece. So some measurements differ a bit from the piece delivered to Dale.
Might as well put it here as well.
I'm pretty sure you cannot anodize copper like you can Aluminum....not easily anyway. From experience, the best bet for stopping copper from tarnishing is either silver, gold or nickle plating. Silver still tarnishes but much slower than bare copper. It also provides exceptional thermal transfer properties, and is actually easy to do yourself (I have done it MANY times).
Gold and nickle both require extra pre-layers before the actual gold/nickle coating can be applied and are much more difficult than silver. I can't recall the specifics right now.
If you want to keep the nice copper look, polish with renaissance wax and try not to touch it lol.
Second video added.
very nice bucket, once i get a lathe ill hire u to come teach me
Congrat’s on the Mitutoyo’s, far superior to the vast majority, only Starrett is better to my knowledge. No, I haven’t worked as a machinist, but I was Shipping and Receiving Mgr. at an Industrial Supply house and got to play with some of the best. We were suppliers for some pretty major local companies, not the least of which was Mobil Chemical.
Love watching you do these, makes me long for the day (if I EVER get there!)
Certainly beats my $9 eBay ones! 
Thanks a lot for the videos, very informative to individuals like me.
I bout broke my finger on the desk! When that finning tool jammed the instinctive need to hit the kill switch overrides all else! Geesh!
Tedious nerve-wracking stuff there! But isn’t that fresh cut copper just the cat’s meow? I’m a copper addict, if I wasn’t before, I am now!
Yeah. Just prior to that I was thinking that copper wasn't too bad after all. Then "Doh!" I'm sure that you noticed that I didn't resume recording until after I was done with that part. It jammed a couple of more times and I learned to listen for a groan like sound that happened just before it would jam. I didn't have any brain power left over to narrate.
I'm off to work. Till tomorrow.
beautiful work Bucket and with a difficult material too! Does your grooving bar have lots of side relief? Both from top to bottom and front to back (especially) - the front to back relief makes it a bit more forgiving. When I’m slightly off with my cut off bar (ground from a piece of 1/4x3/8 HSS), it single point cuts until it’s back at the bottom of the cut. Then again, I’ve never machined copper, scary stuff from what I’ve heard.
Side relief is probably 10 degrees. Since it's so narrow, there isn't much to work with for side relief but there is some. Front relief is about 15 degrees.
Last video is done. Trying to upload it to Youtube a second time now.
Not working here or in You Tube
Yeah. I'm not sure what's up. I got the confirmation email from Youtube that it was ready. Giving it a few minutes. It might be on their end.
The video was there early when I visited this thread, it didn’t work then, but now its completely gone.
The You Tube elves are having fun with Buck. When he first tried it, the vid didn’t work. He killed it off and is trying to re-up it.