Those are my favorite flashlights too. Simple & easy and the clip is really good. If you’re soliciting ideas, I’ve always wanted one like you have there that also had a bright red light for when I don’t want to ruin my night vision.
I'm always open to ideas! Having a red as well would be great! A feature I would also love, rather complicates things but deserves more thought. Thanks!
Ugh, I know (ask my tools, getting heat out of the cut is always an issue)! Likely a copper core for the driver sink with a thin wall transition to the outside Ti tube... thankfully not dumping a bunch of heat so it should be ok.
Inductive charging would be a nice feature. Perhaps a modular design with the charge connection built into the tail cap so you could swap it out. Could change between usb, induction, or a no-charging option easily that way.
All would be cool but would likely be down the road kind of additions, I'm sure I'll have my hands full just building a well functioning light sans all the charging complications!
The Manta Ray C8.2 with XHP70.2 would be the perfect donor for the head because the machine work is flawless and the light is dirt cheap and you could build just the tube for the battery and the tail cap which would save you a lot of money on labor and materials and you can still triple your money on it
I missed the last one, but wow, just caught up. While you are having fun making these, I’m really enjoying watching! Thank you for sharing! I loved the video of the thread milling on the mill! So satisfying! What brand cutter do you like for that? I’ve some stainless I want threaded and I’ve already ruined two pieces with a normal threading die. Figure better to just set my die grinder on my tool post of the lathe, set the gears and let it rip.
Thanks! For most of the lathe work I like micro100 tooling but I believe the threadmill I'm using is from McMaster...seems to be working well (purchased a gang of them and only break them from handling it seems)!
Cool! Sealed designs and lithium scares me (ie.bomb) but a designed weak point in the event of catastrophic battery failure would suffice...I'm sure you would know the ways this is accomplished!
Oddball question: You mention thousandths and ten-thousandths of an inch. I was under the impression you were in Canada. Do you think/program in metric or do you do it all in inches/imperial? I'm an outlier here in the U.S. doing everything in metric. I wasn't a metric guy until just a few years ago when I started down the Fusion 360 and machining path. Now, it is my default way of thinking of these things. I can translate in my head just fine for estimating but I definitely think natively in mm for dimensions I'm working with. It is nice that here in the U.S. I can design things to be some meaningful mutiple, like 25 or 50mm in one dimension and the suppliers all carry 25.4 and 50.8mm stock so I have just enough to machine it from. ;)
Ugh...bane of our messed up measurement system. I think in both usually (machining is imperial and printing drops down into microns and mils)...large distances go back into metric and volume is always metric! Some tools are metric and some imperial but I keep the machines in imperial as I learned machining with imperial leadscrew machines so it sticks better in my head. What a cluster lol.
@@CurtVanFilipowskiYep. It’s funny. I’m fond of telling machinists that we’re all using metric, but the imperial units guys just use weird multiples. Most of them think an inch is equal to 25.4mm, not realizing that 25.4mm actually defines an inch since we got rid of our physical standards and just defined inches in millimeters. So we all use metric. ;). I am enjoying your “how the sausage is made” video series. It’s great.
Shhh...don't let the Americano's hear ;). There is a really cool video floating around (maybe a Tom Scott one) showing the evolution of the standard 'meter'...rather intersting. The 'Perfectionist' is also a really cool book on the subject of precision over the years and highly entertaining to read/listen to!
