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Ti Triple L -- a little, long light

PhotonFanatic

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Thinking of making one or two of these, in Ti, of course:

14680TiLight.jpg


Would be 120mm long and 21mm diameter--using an AW14670 rechargeable and a McClicky tail switch.

Comments welcome.

Added 7/14/10 -- second version of rendering:

TiExtendedAALight-3.jpg


Finished the light on July 25:

TripleL-Final-3.jpg


Please see post #17 for more photos of the finished light, and the specs.

BTW, the light is sold.
 
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csshih

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Re: A Loong Light--Maybe

man, that thing would look good even without the colors.. I love the design.
 

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Re: A Loong Light--Maybe

IMO , Design is cool , but , color coordination is questionable.

Can I have the estimated price of it ?
 

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Re: A Loong Light--Maybe

Ti anodized colors are pretty limited, but predictable. A rendering really does no justice to the actual colors, however.

Even with no anodizing, the light would look fine, I think.

I would expect to sell this for around $800-$900 dollars. While it looks pretty basic, and easy to make, the drilling on the interior, long and skinny, isn't the easiest to achieve--it just takes time and patience.
 

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Re: A Loong Light--Maybe

That is beautiful! I actually like the original more, but they are both gorgeous! Reminds me a bit of the colors on the light that went to India...
 

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Re: A Loong Light--Maybe

Personally speaking, 2nd is much better .

One of my motto is " Simple design is the best design ."

Anyway.. awesome works of Art .
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Re: A Loong Light--Maybe

Might as well make this a WIP thread, too. :devil:

Although after that nice rendering, these photos probably won't be as attractive. :p

So far, I've bored out the battery tube enough to accept the 14680 battery, but I haven't done the McClicky switch bore and threading yet. The threading was done on both the top of the battery tube and the head, so the pieces do fit together:

14680TiLightWIP-1.jpg


The discs have been cut on the battery tube, but not the grooves, since the discs will be anodized in gold, at a higher voltage than the blue colored grooves.

The head, on which only the discs will be anodized, had both the discs and axial grooves cut at the same time. The axial grooves will be masked off when the discs are being anodized.

14680TiLightWIP-2.jpg


The bevel will be machined after the battery tube is completely done--in order to match up the diameter of the battery tube with the diameter of the narrower portion of the head bevel.

14680TiLightWIP-3.jpg
 

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Re: A Loong Light--Maybe

Since this is a spec light, not one promised to a customer, I can take my time on this one. :devil:

Today, I did find a little time to work on it, though. I decided to anodize the discs, so all I had to do was to mask off the one groove that I had cut near the tail of the light and crank up the voltage in the anodizing electrolyte, until I got the gold color I wanted:

14680BatteryTubeGoldDiscAno-1.jpg


Once the discs were anodized, I just cut the grooves, which, while they look as though they could already be anodized blue, are really just the bare Ti.

The grooves will be anodized next in blue.

For now, this is a pic of the two pieces together:

14680BatteryTubeGoldDiscAno-3.jpg


In case you are wondering what happens to the gold on the surface of the light--that will be further machined--just take a skim coat off to reveal the bare Ti once again.
 

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Re: A Loong Light--Maybe

A little more work today. First I masked off the flutes on the head, in preparation for anodizing the discs blue, which would be done simultaneously with the anodizing of the thin grooves on the battery tube.

Here's what they looked like after anodizing and the removal of the masking:

14680TiLightWIP-4.jpg


Not very pretty yet, eh?

Next operation was to cut the flutes in the tail area:

14680TiLightWIP-5.jpg


Once the flutes were cut, I skimmed the gold anodizing off the battery tube, and then screwed the pieces together:

14680TiLightWIP-6.jpg


If you look closely, you'll see a boo-boo on the fluted tail end--evidently I was in a bit of a rush to get the piece off the collet and to clean it up, but I managed instead to put a good gauge in it. :shakehead

Fortunately, there's enough metal there to turn it down and clean it up.

And here's a close-up of the battery tube's discs and grooves:

14680TiLightWIP-7.jpg


Still a little masking compound lurking in the discs--they will be cleanly thoroughly later.
 

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Re: A Loong Light--Maybe

Today's work consisted of working on the head of the light--putting in the bevel that joins to the battery tube was the first task. Job done:

14680TiLightWIP-8.jpg


Then I needed to remove the stub at the top of the head and put the bevel in, too:

14680TiLightWIP-9.jpg


Finally, I cleaned up the scratch that I accidentally made and the two pieces are done:

14680TiLightWIP-10.jpg


This felt pretty light in my hand, no pun intended, so I put them on the scale--only 1.9 ounces; and the battery weighs 1 ounce by itself.

Next up--make the light engine, install the McClicky, etc., and call :poke: jch79 to see if he really wants this, or not. :devil:
 

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Re: A Loong Light--Maybe

I am back up for this ! If the price is not going to too higher than expected..
 

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OK, she's done! And I decided to give it a name--the Ti Triple L, i.e., a little, long light.

TripleL-Final-9.jpg

TripleL-Final-4.jpg

TripleL-Final-6.jpg


Some final specs:

  • Battery--AW14670, 3.7V rechargeable Lithium-Ion
  • McClicky switch
  • Seoul P4 emitter, bin U3SVNH
  • Mini FluPIC driver, three output levels with memory
  • Khatod 17mm stippled reflector
  • 2mm thick mineral glass lens
  • O-ring sealed
  • Dimensions: 21mm diameter, 120mm long
  • Weight: 3.4 ounces
  • Material: Quad 2 Titanium
  • Anodized discs and grooves
  • Lumen output estimated at 140 lumens on high
And one photo that didn't come out as expected, but I like it:

TripleL-Final-10.jpg


BTW, the light is sold.
 
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