G'day from Australia

[warmurf]

Great to have another Aussie on board. Enjoy, and keep an eye out for Vinh lights. Something for you to look at after enjoying some stock lights.

[wedgetail]

Thanks again guys, great feeling here. Vinh’s lights look pretty awesome, they must be one powerful unit!

@xv-750

Sounds like a nice little place you’ve got there - You’ll find lots of help here for anything you want to build.

I used to live in the Gulf Country about 120km NNW of Cloncurry.

Up there in the mid ’60s the best lights around were carbide lights. Things have improved a bit since then.

Nice, Stayed on some stations north of Julia Creek a while back, not quite your way but fantastic country.

@ImA4Wheelr

Welcome to the forum widgetail. You’re in a dream situation for a flashlight enthusiast. I’m only on 14 acres. It’s still pitch black at night here, but area lighting is steadily moving it way towards my property. That saddens me partially due to this hobby, but mostly because I love seeing the glorious night sky. I imagine you can see the Milky Way  clear as day out there.

Do you have a metal lathe? You said “turn” a couple times.

Well that’s mankind advancing on the wild… Happening everywhere. Yeah we can see the milky way pretty clearly when it’s about, I try not to take things like that for granted. I agree an unpolluted sky is a treasure, but it’s no coincidence we’re out here
Well I’ve got a 6’ bed lathe at work (40m from the house), and someone gave me a much smaller lathe which I’m yet to commission at home. So yep I’m only limited by my imagination (and that of the forum’s!)

[texaspyro]

@MRsDNF

Hi and welcome wedgetail. Sounds like a nice place to get lost. At least you wont be bothering the neighbours with your lights. Looks like you need to add a large thrower to your list of wanted lights. Say hi to the Roos for us.

Advice: stay away from this (^) dude. He’s one sick bastard! 0:) Oh, and keep him away from the sheep, too…

[MRsDNF]

@texaspyro

@MRsDNF

Hi and welcome wedgetail. Sounds like a nice place to get lost. At least you wont be bothering the neighbours with your lights. Looks like you need to add a large thrower to your list of wanted lights. Say hi to the Roos for us.

Advice: stay away from this (^) dude. He’s one sick bastard! 0:) Oh, and keep him away from the sheep, too…

Sorry Texas. I'm not a Kiwi. Sick yes. Wanna pay my medical bills. Bastard, according to my adult children yes. Ask me and I'll tell you I'm a tough bastard.

Wedgetail, if your into things that go bang texaspyro is your man.

Please keep us updated on your machine work. Theres a thread somewhere about what your doing in the machine shop. Here it is.

Whats your machine shop making at the moment and stuff in your workplace.

After Mattaus thread on his new pill and the talk of what his machine shop was making I thought a thread on the subject would be interesting, to me anyway, hopefully there may be a couple of others out there interested as well. [image] These are transmission adaptors for what I dont know. Each one started as a block of aluminium and machined on a five axis mill, at least I think it is. [image]

[Chloe]

Welcome to BLF, wedgetail! :party:

[202bigmike]

wedgetail ; Hello and Welcome to the BLF !

[wedgetail]

Thanks agin guys.

@MRsDNF

@texaspyro

@MRsDNF

Hi and welcome wedgetail. Sounds like a nice place to get lost. At least you wont be bothering the neighbours with your lights. Looks like you need to add a large thrower to your list of wanted lights. Say hi to the Roos for us.

Advice: stay away from this (^) dude. He’s one sick bastard! 0:) Oh, and keep him away from the sheep, too…

Sorry Texas. I’m not a Kiwi. Sick yes. Wanna pay my medical bills. Bastard, according to my adult children yes. Ask me and I’ll tell you I’m a tough bastard.

Wedgetail, if your into things that go bang texaspyro is your man.

Please keep us updated on your machine work. Theres a thread somewhere about what your doing in the machine shop. Here it is.

Whats your machine shop making at the moment and stuff in your workplace.

I find a few people get aussies and kiwis mixed up in the whole sheep love topic. Bloke I used to know in the UK was always cracking sheep jokes at me and I had to keep pointing out I wasn’t a kiwi

You I’ll keep you updated, however after having a look at that thread I’m embarrassed to show my work - the bar is set very very high! Not sure I’m quite up to some of it…

[Rayus_susan]

Hello and Welcome to the BLF !

rayus_susan@yeah.net

[MRsDNF]

Alls good on the machining side. We can all appreciate the efforts put in. I started by buying a AA host first and put a driver and led in it to build my first light to give me an idea on the basics on how a light worked and what went into it. I gave it to my mum. After that it just snowballs.