Through a stroke of luck a friend who works at a scrap yard snarfed me a few bits of 16mm titanium bar.
No idea what grade or anything but ey, its titanium amirite
(its not all mine but he got me some of the longer sticks)
So its got me thinking what do I want to make out of it?
A torch obviously but what kind.
I'm thinking a single lithium 10440 cell for the power, I'd like to go bigger but the 14500 sized cells make for too thin a wall section (lots more power though) .85 of a mm with the 14500 Vs 2-3mm with the 10440 cell?
Do you think .85mm Ti is too thin for an EDC?
I always like throwy lights so I'm thinking an XP-G (of course ;->) for the main emitter with a tight tight lens on it something like a Lisa2-clip16 real spot +-13 degree.
Just to add some difficulty to it I'm also thinking a side emitter with a nice wide beam would be useful too I'm thinking it'd be handy for things like finding keyholes and such so it shouldn't need to be too bright, so how does a nichia raijin sound?
Would be good for moonlight modes as well I'm thinking?
Any suggestions about what to make the lens for the side emitter out of i'm thinking a bit of acrylic siliconed in would do the job?
No idea what grade or anything but ey, its titanium amirite
(its not all mine but he got me some of the longer sticks)
So its got me thinking what do I want to make out of it?
A torch obviously but what kind.
I'm thinking a single lithium 10440 cell for the power, I'd like to go bigger but the 14500 sized cells make for too thin a wall section (lots more power though) .85 of a mm with the 14500 Vs 2-3mm with the 10440 cell?
Do you think .85mm Ti is too thin for an EDC?
I always like throwy lights so I'm thinking an XP-G (of course ;->) for the main emitter with a tight tight lens on it something like a Lisa2-clip16 real spot +-13 degree.
Just to add some difficulty to it I'm also thinking a side emitter with a nice wide beam would be useful too I'm thinking it'd be handy for things like finding keyholes and such so it shouldn't need to be too bright, so how does a nichia raijin sound?
Would be good for moonlight modes as well I'm thinking?
Any suggestions about what to make the lens for the side emitter out of i'm thinking a bit of acrylic siliconed in would do the job?
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