Recent content by jbtm

Let me know a location and I can run a estimator via usps. Usually when shipping over seas ( finland was my normal ) the costs are a bit upwards of 15 to 25 but weight and location depends. Im use to hundreds but thats because shipping 60 pounds of electronic goodies to finland xD. Hes tought...

Well..Various things i can offer for sale...I'm more trying to figure what stuff people are interested in...instead of just posting a multiple-thread FS FS FS FS and have things be duds or sells. So simple. If you have an interest for the item....PM me, and we can talk price. If your into...

Yeah ive pointed a 1W through them before and had no light pass through...the light just got absorbed by the lens. They do make multiple models because I saw some of theres that can block 445 are rated for looking at a 10W dot on the wall and others 100W dot on the wall.... maybe its just me...

Thanks for the words ^^ I'm more/less just surprised it came out, period. Going off the fact that my school's first year class, the most advance thing we did was turn diameters to specs, Thread reliefs, and cutting big diameter threads with big tooling. The class never went over how to make...

USA yep yep!!! Thanks, Faaaaaar different layout than they were before by far. But good to see they're still up and going. You guys have any opinion on their products/quality? I've never handled very many glasses, I was reading a thread long ago awhile I was waiting for my arctic order, way...

Some updates on the host. So, Got the lathe all cleaned up and working. Now we just lack tooling. Just a parting tool, at least. We have cutters, and a boring bar. Then of course my DIY thread cutter which, works perfectly. Seen here, I redid the threading, MUCH cleaner. So....The...

Hello! So... Working 3W 445nm laser. I've been out of the loop for over a year now, slowly coming back lightly. Well, I recall ages ago that the pair that came with the WL arctic -- are crap. The laser's "dot" on the wall, at a distance, is still fairly bright...even when it was a 1W laser...

Yeah, by far it was the best aluminum i ever machined. it took me a matter of minutes to turn 8 inches of 2" stock down to 1.5" diameter with only a few passes, and i had no strings to pick up, it was just a massive pile of tiny broken chips that were simply sucked up, easiest clean-up job i...

You know what... under further review...this laser host wasnt made with 6061-T6 aircraft grade AL. I did some comparason searches of 6061-T6 vs 7075-T6 and seeing people say 7075 chips break extreamly short, shines easily with surface finishes etc, this 'HAS' to be 7075-T6 aluminum, which...

*bump* As an update to this post for those who may be wondering 'what happen to the build, is it done?' etc. Here's some info. So as some of you know i finished college back in november 2013. This lead me with no access to machinery to finish things up. Our maker space recently got a lathe...

Would it not be overkill crazy if this was a laser pointer? xD It's not done yet. Still got lathe/mill/drill work to do. That as well as laser cutting stencils to do some artwork on the 2 outermost pipes :) This was also made from solid stock, and all the screw-together-points ( 3 ) are all...

Guess until I get my diode I start the next project. Light saber that'll run Crystal Focus :3

Thanks, I'm still working on a couple focusing ring designs. One way is the lazy 'threading' method where it would stick out if unscrewed far. My other idea was still threads, but having a nut inside basically that has 2 rodes that move it up/down. Then the focusing ring can spin for infinity...

Been quiet lately I know. I've been busy gathering stuff to make a lightsaber after i finish this. Oddly I'm still waiting on dead diodes etc that were shipped snail mail and its been >3 weeks. Hopefully they arent lost or something. Anywho. I cannot really do much more here besides make my...

Taken with Canon EOS T3i -- I take credit for all the images. Grand Rapids Flooding - Imgur <-- Mass Flooding Album ( Be sure to see the Before/After! ) Though, Lately I havent put a lot of my photography online, and some of it has been getting rather fuzzy ;)...