Brass and Bronze lights? Let's see them!

[DaFABRICATA]

How is there not a brass/bronze/aluminum bronze light thread?
Please post your lights here as I know there are others who enjoy them also.

These were all made on my manual machines.
The lights shown are a small triple Nichia 219b mule, a larger 18650 triple reflector XM-L2 turbohead light, a Zebralight based SC52w, and Nitecore based EX10.

 

[jclubbn5]

bronze hanko trident

 

[emarkd]

Well this thread started off with a bang. How about a little budget intervention?

 

[archimedes]

Spyglass custom torch, created by @calipsoii , is one of my absolute favorites

His incredibly detailed build-log thread is a CPF masterpiece ....

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?373167-Build-Log-The-1-5V-Project

 

[Str8stroke]

Does Brass plated with Nickel count? hehe :lolsign:

 

[eraursls1984]

Tim, why discriminate against alumi-bronze? I thought you were better than that.

 

[Thetasigma]

Hmm, well if you insist.

Red metals, I'll leave it to you to guess which is which.

 

[eraursls1984]

Hmm, well if you insist.

Red metals, I'll leave it to you to guess which is which.

From left to right
Aluminum Bronze, Brass, Copper, Beryllium Copper, Aluminum Bronze?
Or
Aluminum Bronze, Brass, Copper, Beryllium Copper, Beryllium Copper?

 

[Thetasigma]

From left to right
Aluminum Bronze, Brass, Copper, Beryllium Copper, Aluminum Bronze?
Or
Aluminum Bronze, Brass, Copper, Beryllium Copper, Beryllium Copper?

First one but you have the Copper and BeCu backwards, so it is,

Al-Bronze, Brass, BeCu, Copper, Al-Bronze.



and now to add to the confusion, here are BeCu, Copper, and Al-Bronze below, both in the same order two weeks apart.

This shows part of the reason Al-Bronze is my favorite red metal, it is damn consistent once it acquires its patina. It photographs differently in different lights, but it pretty much stays the same.

 

[PolarLi]

The big brass.
Francis marine searchlight from 1955.

So long story short, I restored it, and installed a 19000 lumen, 350W UHP projector lamp, a 200mm electroformed reflector, and some electronics.
It make 55,000,000 candela and have a ANSI FL1 range of 14.8 km/9.2 miles.

Ballast and PSU:

2800 meters to the target:

Edit, added a picture.

 

[Eric242]

NICE and well done PolarLi :thumbsup:

 

[jclubbn5]

PolarLi Wow that's awesome!

 

[irongate]

The big brass.
Francis marine searchlight from 1955.

So long story short, I restored it, and installed a 19000 lumen, 350W UHP projector lamp, a 200mm electroformed reflector, and some electronics.
It make 55,000,000 candela and have a ANSI FL1 range of 14.8 km/9.2 miles.

2800 meters to the target:

My hat off to you, you did a very nice job restoring that light. Beautiful, that Brass looks out of this world.

 

[Thetasigma]

The big brass.
Francis marine searchlight from 1955.

So long story short, I restored it, and installed a 19000 lumen, 350W UHP projector lamp, a 200mm electroformed reflector, and some electronics.
It make 55,000,000 candela and have a ANSI FL1 range of 14.8 km/9.2 miles.

2800 meters to the target:

I had almost forgot about this one, beautiful restoration and upgrade work sir. My hats off to ya.

 

[PolarLi]

Thanks guys!

I can share a fun fact about that finish. I spent several days sanding the brass down with various grit sandpaper, mostly because the light had unfortunately been sandblasted before I got it...
then 10 hours of machine polishing, and a couple of hours of hand polishing.

Thetasigma: I can't see your pictures, may be some server issue?

 

[staticx57]

You won the thread with that light.

 

[irongate]

Thanks guys!

I can share a fun fact about that finish. I spent several days sanding the brass down with various grit sandpaper, mostly because the light had unfortunately been sandblasted before I got it...
then 10 hours of machine polishing, and a couple of hours of hand polishing.

Thetasigma: I can't see your pictures, may be some server issue?

Do you use anything to keep it so polished?

 

[jaya_man]

My only brass with copper on the side

 

[jmoyat]

Okluma Brass Tiny DC



And my keys

 

[Thetasigma]

Thanks guys!

I can share a fun fact about that finish. I spent several days sanding the brass down with various grit sandpaper, mostly because the light had unfortunately been sandblasted before I got it...
then 10 hours of machine polishing, and a couple of hours of hand polishing.

Thetasigma: I can't see your pictures, may be some server issue?

Google Photo issues, doesn't always show for whatever reason. I re-embedded them again and they seem to work now.