My Big Fat Ugly Red. . . (big pics)

[proud2deviate]

I decided to post this one to show what you can kludge together with little money, no appropriate tools, and no patience

My Big Fat Ugly Red started out with some .875" copper round stock I bought off the 'Bay. I used a 3/4" repair coupling and some machine bushings to bore a not-too-off-center hole for the Aixiz module (very tight press fit. I used a 2 foot cheater pipe on the vise handle!) I soldered on a pipe fitting (not sure what size,) and ground out the threads to mount it on a Fenix L2D body. I drilled and tapped it for a set screw to keep everything together. The positive contact is a piece of copper pipe that I hammered flat, isolated by a bit of plastic from a Skoal can. The Big Fat Ugly Red uses a Rkcstr driver set at a conservative 415 ma, two protected 14500 batteries, and an LPC-815 LOC diode with an Aixiz glass lens in front of it. I can run it for quite a long time before it starts to get warm, about three minutes. Provided are pictures of the build, with some bathroom beam shots (smoke added.)

Enjoy

 

[Gryphon]

Well atleast it wont over heat, nice job

 

[toogoofy]

nice
that is quite abit of heatsinking you got there

 

[Hemlock_Mike]

Big, Fat and ugly ??? No. That's where many of us started or worse. You have done a good job finding hardware parts to fit. That's how I do it !!!!
Don't stop now. Your next one will be a real winner but at least you can say, "I built it" !!!

Congrats to a new builder.

HMike

 

[nikokapo]

Big, Fat and ugly ??? No. That's where many of us started or worse. You have done a good job finding hardware parts to fit. That's how I do it !!!!
Don't stop now. Your next one will be a real winner but at least you can say, "I built it" !!!

Congrats to a new builder.

HMike

Listen to this man, he speaks wise words!!

Don't forget to take a towel! Er... to use glasses!

 

[rpaloalto]

Nice job
I like how that massive copper heatsink is exposed like that. It's kinda got that SteamPunk look going on.

 

[jander6442]

without having a lathe one must do what one must do... I would say keep going on this idea. Have a look at my pics on my profile page it might give you some ideas.

PM me if after that you think I could help. It would be my pleasure. Thumbs up on the build BTW!