/diy/ - Do It Yourself

A more final dimensional sketch--- I'm eyeballing it mostly, but using the graph paper to keep track of the eyeballing...

Lightsaber flashlight.

A dildo.

>>39973

Good guess but no. Think about 100 years before Star Wars.

>>39974

"Mighty /g/ in here"

Looks like a very bizarre bottle opener.

....and it looks like sys.4chan.org is down again so I can't post pics. Oh well. I'll try again later I guess.

Enough drawing. Let's start shaping some acrylic rod on the lathe...

>>39993
Are you sure it's not a dildo?

>>39993
4 dildos?
But really, I'm intrigued.

>>39997

Those are about two inches long... Unless I planned to lose 'em for a few days... it's not a dildo.

Oh, a pic finally went through, yay. Of course, it them immediately hits me with flood detection. ngh.

Aluminum pipe and bandsaw time!

6061 rod on the lathe... time to make a batch of slugs of the right lengths and diameters...

>>40000

Nice get. Good thread op.

Slug chucked unto the rotary table on the mill. This will be the end-cap that holds the power switch.

[took a lot of pics... this will have all the pacing of a Mary Worth comic]

>>40013
>power switch
Now, I just want to be TOTALLY clear here. You're telling me that this is, without a shadow of a doubt, NOT a dildo? Not even a stealth dildo?

This is clearly too simple to be a laser, yet too advanced to be a simple laser holder. I'd guess a LED lantern, but since OP says it isn't, I'll jus have to wait.

>>40028

I only said it was not a lightsaber. It does involve LEDs and lighting things up.

sys is dead again. I'll have to wait to post more pics.

>>40017

Guaranteed, without a shadow of a doubt.
[Guarantee void in Japan, srsly]

>>40039
Okay, but I'm watching you.

the cutting is actually even slower than the posting. It's not a very big mill.

>>40058

is that a self centering chuck?

As ghetto as it is, Harbor Freight router bits work great on aluminum and they cost less than a buck each.

>>40067
Yup. Sherline's mills are super weedy, but their rotary table and chucks are pretty good (if small).

Next slug, this will hold the bulb, power LED and electronics.

Electronics go here. Outer rim is only about 10 mils, but it will all be potted in epoxy.

Yeah, I actually machined a custom power knob. Cheaper than buying a non-plastic one and I wanted this to be ~ all metal.

Fluting it here.

turning down some schedule 10 6061 pipe to 1.200 to make the battery compartment

6061 makes crasy long continuous chips. I actually got one pass off in a complete piece, was almost 15 feet long.

Cutting the battery opening

Looks like pic posting troubles are over, yay.

Cutting the radius curve into one of the shades...

MDF jig on a metal mill: ghetto, but it's just a down cut into .050

I'm assuming this kind of stuff is involved in your line of work in some way? Always wanted machinery like this from days of screwing around with it in high school design classes, but it's way too expensive.

Damn OP, you have some cool toys!

First pieces come out of The Machine That Goes Buzz (the vibratory tumbler). It takes about a day for it to polish off the cutting marks, but I don't have to spend two hours doing it by hand.

dig the thread op

i'll hazard a guess. night light?

>>40093
>>40094

Was part of my upbringing, but not part of my work. None of this is expensive stuff--- it's all 'polished turds'. The mill I grabbed from Harbor Freight for $99 on sale. It's crap but with real bearings swapped in it works. The lathe was a similar reject I bought broken and fixed. The band saw I actually bought new, but I always wanted a band saw.

The scroll saw that cut the jig is actually my wife's :-) Her hobby is making jigsaw puzzles out of Luan.

the first kinda cool pic.

All the pieces awaiting final assembly laid out like an exploded parts diagram.

Obviously some sort of light.

Is the backing going to be mill-finish-matte or buffed and polished?

Regardless, I really want a mill.

>>40106
They've had a mill for $99, really?

>>40110

It's a light for sure, yeah :-) The knobs will be polished, the rest will get painted. I considered powdercoating and decided against.

Old pic of the mill when I had just finished building it out. It's a Sieg X1 under the upgrades I made by hand. The mill half built itself. Sadly, It cracked a pillowblock so I need to tear it apart and service it soon.

>>40114
>The knobs will be polished

>>40116
Cut that out, it's hard enough to not make dildo jokes as it is.

>>40111

This was about six or seven years ago... it was a deep discount sale and I think it was $99. I could be remembering wrong. What I remember for sure is it was more than half off what it was last time I saw it on sale and figured 'No way it could suck so hard 100lbs of iron with free shipping isn't worth that.'

Spent more than that polishing it up though. It was not a good mill at all, still isn't really, but solidly worth it.

....pic: getting ready to paint the white diffuser onto the bulb bodies...

Is it a dildo shooter?

From blank slug to diffuser bulb with painted reflector. Two coats white, one coat metallic for show.

>>40122
I'll be honest here, although I can tell what the finished product will look like pretty easily, I still have no clue what it is.

>>40121

heh. I'll have to try designing one of those. Can only imagine what my wife will think.

Probably "is that it? can't you make a bigger one?"
Or worse "It would look better painted black."

>>40119
I think it must have been at least $250. Even if it was the parking lot sale. The cheapest mill I've ever seen from them was $400 on sale.

I have a really good old drill press I'm seriously considering trying to convert to a mill, good bearings in the quill support, no play, straight shaft chuck or I can fit a router collar on there. The only problems I see are mounting it so there are no vibrations, and the myriad of other issues trying to make a mill out of something that isn't a mill. There's an official router attachment at least though.

More recent technology.

Ladies and Gentlemen, an Indus Star with a 3W 3100K Cree XP-G chip. They're nice.

test fitting.

>>40125
I'm guessing the light part is going to reflect off the back so no direct lighting.

>>40127

Oh, it was way less than that. It was either $99 or $199. This was when the X1 first showed up and the X0 was known as total crap.

Yeah, the problem with conversions is stiffness. This thing is 100lbs of iron and still flexes and chatters pretty badly. I've been considering filling the dovetail column with metal-filled epoxy to increase the stiffness. Or... I could just save up for a real mill.

LED bonded to the bulb with mediam CA, which bonds well to the LED epoxy, the Star PCB and the PMMa of the bulb. And cures optically clear with virtually no index of refraction.

Would anyone be kind enough to give a breakdown of basic machines to machine metal into shapes and where to find them? I know nothing about it but would like to. Or point to a beginner's guide? There have been so many times I'm doing a diy project and thought, "if only something shaped like THIS existed."

Electronics in the hole. This is the only expensive part. Two micropucks to power the bulb, one for low and two in parallel for high.

>>40135
Router mill
Metal lathe
(Band) Saw
(Belt/Disk) Grinder

That's about it.

>>40142
Also each of these machines is going to cost at least $200 on clearance. Most normally.

>>40135
Machinery's Handbook
WHOMP.
2000+ pages. Start there :p

oh god the suspense... great thread OP

>>40135

Metal bandsaw for fast rough cuts
Lathe for turning
Mill for shaping

Those are the basic machines. Most folks will have a MIG and plasma torch for welding/cutting too. I haven't gotten around to it, there are more hazards involved, so I just use adhesives and mechanical fasteners.

I also have a homemade wet/dry vibratory tumbler for polishing (pic related-- made out of a broken MiniSonic)

>>40147
>Machinery's Handbook

Thanks! Found it, downloaded it, reading it now.

Holy fuck OP. Are you a wizard?
You are very resourceful, good stuff.

C&K DP3T switch wired up for off-low-high operation. The dabs of white glue are to keep potting epoxy from getting into two teeny holes in the switch (ask me how I found out about that)

>>40156

My goal in life was to have a workshop as good as my dad's, and then better. Aaaalmost there. Need the welding chops :-)

Bulb electronics potted, battery spring in place

this is one complicated dildo...

>>40142

Oh yeah, grinder. I mostly make small stuff out of aluminum so I barely ever think about that (can't grind aluminum, it's gummy and the dust is bad for you).

...switch potted....

Test firing!

>>40162
Good stuff. I have a mig welder, oxy/acetylene/propane kit, and a plasma cutter.
I want to get into machining next. Been reading mechanical engineering books too. My long term project for the next year or 3 will be a custom motorcycle frame, with custom suspension, for a big japanese motorcycle engine.

...and a test fitting before bonding it all together.

>>40135
If you;re in the US, check out the machinists classes at you local community college. You can get training and access to machine tools for very little money.

>>40169
so......its a light? a fancy, badass light that shines outward?

>>40168

Heh. Going for some crazy Akira stylee? :-)

....baking the enamel...

>>40172
No you dumbass he built a real lightsaber faggot shit smear eat a dik mutdda fukka!!!!420xxXXsefirothxXX
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<3MCR+Linkin Park REEL MUZIK!
Fr33 W33zy!

>>40175
I could see you making a bitching replica portal gun.

>>40172

you have 90%, there's no way to guess the rest, there'll be a pic soon :-)

...the switch is 'wired' to the bulb via adhesive copper tape. The solder joints aren't sexy, but it's not exactly trivial soldering cleanly to a broad flat copper surface without baking everything nearby...

>>40177
No, portal gun would be mostly clay, then plaster forms, then vaccuform or fiberglass.

>>40176
shitstorm incoming
i was just asking. and fuck no i dont like that music!

...finish up the battery compartment by lining it with adhesive felt...

>>40175
Actually, I sort of am. The rider's seat is going to be very low slung, with the rear wheel behind the rider rather than under. Tricky part is transferring power from the front engine to the back wheel. Gonna need a clever arrangement of chains/shafts/gearboxes, certainly.

>>40180
And?

>>40183
Can you even ride a motorcycle?

This would handle like an even worse chopper.

>>40180

Unless it was functional, but that would go in /g/ :-)

...the first five, assembled and lit...
I also finished some rechargeable NiMH cells to match the lamps. Cut off the plastic 'powerizer' shrink label, pop off the white positive insulator cap, dip in 'plasti-dip' like a primer, panit, trim and replace caps. I think they look nice. A regular old Duracell would work too.

>>40184
And the majority of parts for a portal gun aren't efficiently made by milling.

>>40186
Yep. I've owned 5, current bike is a gsxr1000.

>>40189
So you have a sportsbike and you want to make something that handles like a chopper except worse? I don't get it at all.

Anyways, you should start off with a goldwing engine, put a new shaft between the tranny and the fork shaft, then drop the seat low onto the shaft.

>>40183
>>40189
http://negatendo.net/kmc/en_feet_forward.htm
examples of feet-forward motorcycles. shit low res pics but should get the idea across.

So OP just made light handles for his motorcycle(s) in a badass Tron style? I HATE YOU OP FOR BEING SO COOL!

>>40187

It's finished, and I still have no idea what it is, apart from some kind of stylized torch.

>>40189
So you have a sportsbike and you want to make something that handles like a chopper except worse? I don't get it at all.

Anyways, you should start off with a goldwing engine, put a new shaft between the tranny and the swingarm shaft, then drop the seat low onto that shaft and move the swingarm back.

...here's the answer to the [not much of a] mystery.

My wife is a big quilter, I collect antique machines and keep her and her friends fed (yes, we actually use these machines. They're more reliable than modern machines and cheap).

We've been teaching classes and taking handcrank machines. Which are actually great for learning, but since non-electric, no lights, and the lighting in the room usually sucks. So I'm making lights. Lights worthy of these beautiful, indestructible 120 year old cast iron behemoths.

...I sense disappointment, but that's OK. We can have a motorcycle thread. I ride too (98 Shadow VT1100T)

>>40193
>>40198
I have no illusions of how such a bike would handle. I just like the idea of a low slung feet forward bike.

>>40201
*clap clap clap clap clap*
Very nice OP.

>>40201

I'll just go on thinking they're lighted dildo shooters. Much cooler.

>>40201
Haha, that's pretty awesome though.
What sewing machine is that? It looks a lot like the one my mom has.

>>40201
you are a god among men in the workshop. hats off.

>>40201

A light to go with a sewing machine. I don't think anyone expected that.

Very nicely made, OP. I wish I had the toys that you have.

>>40201
now make yourself tron handlebars for your bike.

>>40201

Can't say I'm disappointed with that. I still use a footpedal grinding wheel for profiling blades.

>>40201
On a side note, you have a REALLY small thumbnail. Are you a hobbit?

>>40201
My mom's got a few big japanese sewing machine with huge electric motors and foot pedal clutches.
I don't sew, but I appreciate the machinery and the skill.

One more to show the rough position. I'm heading down to the workshop to make the magnetic mounts tonight. I haven't quite thought them through as thoroughly as the rest.

They run 12 hours on low (.3W) and about 5 on high (.8W). The batteries charge in two hours.

>>40210

It's a 1928 Singer 28, Singer's 'budget portable' of the time. It only weighed 35lbs and cost half as much as a car as opposed to almost as much as a car. 28s are damn spiffy little machines.

>>40217

Naw, just weird genetics. I get it from my dad, my sons are the same way. I bite my nails too, makes it worse (but they're like that even when I don't).

>>40201

>. o O { in my mind it's still a teledildonic jizzulator }

>>40230

"Doesn't vibrate, has sharp edges... ooh, but it does light up!" And it runs cool, so no internal easy-bake oven!

It can feature in the next /h/ X-ray thread.

>>40223
Oh nice, I would take a picture of the one we have but it's in a bedroom with sleeping people atm.
Ours is a singer too but it's a bit larger I think and flips into the table it's on.

>>40214

Already sort of did that for my wife and me years ago :-)

>>40241

Took a while to find the old pics. Long running over-fascination with LEDs. This is when the Luxeons were still the biggest badasses in the LED world...

Very nice, OP. Very nice indeed.

Didn't have time to read through thread. How is the heat off the LEDs? Those look like 0.5A arrays?

>>40252

They're XP-Gs rated for 1A/3W. I'm running them 300mA max and at 300 mA the bare stars in open air don't get hot enough to be uncomfortable to touch.

To keep the chip life high, the whole lamp body is a heatsink. The LED and all the aluminum body parts are bonded with Arctic Alumina thermal epoxy and the electronics are potted in thermal potting epoxy, so heat transfer is good.

tl;dr: "barely gets warm"

>>40249
damn those are delicious lights.
i need to find/make something like that

>>40260

I didn't have any fancy tools when I made those. They're entirely a hacksaw/dremel/screwdriver/glue job.

Cool. Those high brightness LEDs can get hot. Go above 1W and you cant just rely on a heavy ground plane to pull away the heat fast enough. Good thinking on the thermal epoxy.

Well stocked machine shop, beautiful sewing machines, ultra commuter bike. Very glad to see folks like you on /diy/, rather than the kids who read life-hacker and make wallets out of duct tape.

>>40261

Oh, actually, I did have the world's crappiest drill press. Which brings us to important advice for any DIYers here:

NEVER BUY POWER TOOLS FROM SEARS

Srsly.

>>40264
>Very glad to see folks like you on /diy/
This. I have been so pleasantly surprised by this board.

>>project
→cost around 150 $
>>Fuuuuuuuuuuuu.Jpg

also dumpster-diving thread
>>31410

>>40331

More like $40. But yesh. Half of it is the micropucks, which are far more expensive than they need to be, but it's still worth saving the time of making your own Joule thief.

>>40334
Oops, that was me.