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The SS Minow
As some of you remember the show Gilligan's Island, what started out as a 3 hour tour, ended up being a life time endevore. Thus the name.
And of course being made from SS.
This is a 2 cell 18650 host. Most of the dimensions are similar to a C-6. The top and heat sink are a little longer. I'll explain below.
I also apologize for the size of some of the pics as I have been having issues with imgur and imageshack, plus I mostly use my phone for internet because I don't have it at home and have to use the computer at work to adjust the pics, plus I put this together just before going on vaction.
Started out with 304 SS stock
Beginning of first end of host body. I actually made a couple of changes to the CNC progam to pre-drill the hole just enough so I can thread for the pill which normally fits a C-6 and you can get from Survival Laser or others.
Finished host body.
Top for heat sink, I made 2; a little different. I prefered the one on the right. They are a little rough around the diamond cuts. Still have to smooth and polish.
Copper and alum. heat sink. If you'll notice the counterbore on the bottom, it is to allow for wiring or stacking of drivers. As most of us know there is barely any room in a C-6 host.
Tailcap.
Notice the taper. At first it wasn't as much and the lip where the switch goes was thicker. I didn't like it, and think this has a sleeker look.
532nm 80mW diode & driver.
This was something I won on e-bay. I want to put a 510nm in it later. But for now this is all I had.
I needed a sleeve to hold the 2 AA batt to run this diode. The smaller 1/2 pvc couplings for water fountain pipe worked to slide the batt in, but had to turn the O.D. a little.
Battery sleeve
Ohh, NOW I find some nylon. Would have been great for the batteries.
I needed a conductive spacer to make up the battery length, so I turned a piece of nylon and drilled a 1/8 hole off- center for the wire.
Making a battery spacer.
I flattened both ends and bent them over, heated them with my soldering iron so they stay in place. Now I have a good center point for contact.
Battery spacer.
Here it is....
Finished host
Rear of host w GITD switch cover.
Front of host
Powered up
I've been finished with this for 3 weeks now. Started back in June though. I've just been waiting to post this before I go to the PGI convention with Jeff a.k.a.-Flaminpyro, but I was trying to fix the pics before I left.
I left this past Friday. I will be returning on the 17th and sleeping with the dead for about 12hrs.
I'm going to get him to do a proper review on it and then see if anyone would be intrested in purchasing one. Oh, BTW, he wonlt be back until the 1st of Sept as he went to SELEM and visiting his daughter in North Carolina. Must be nice to be retired. I'm going to talk to him about price, and maybe Sinner as well since this is more his area. I can also make it in aluminium. They will come standerd with aluminum heatsink (more $ for copper), clicky switch, and a GITD cover. I will ask Jeff to help me set up a PP acount as well.
Not sure how fast I can make them as I am still on OT at work.
Also if anyone is intrested, I can make the extension tubes for the C-6 as in my first laser post. They also fit the 501B as well.
They will be plain(no color) as I don't have a way to anodize, but nothing a can of Krylon won't fix as I did mine.
Thanks for looking,
Paul
P.S. I would like to point out how great Jeff and.his wife are. Hanging out with them has been great. He also let me play with his White Fusion time machine. I could have played with it for hours had it not been for a seminar I wanted to attend.
As some of you remember the show Gilligan's Island, what started out as a 3 hour tour, ended up being a life time endevore. Thus the name.
And of course being made from SS.
This is a 2 cell 18650 host. Most of the dimensions are similar to a C-6. The top and heat sink are a little longer. I'll explain below.
I also apologize for the size of some of the pics as I have been having issues with imgur and imageshack, plus I mostly use my phone for internet because I don't have it at home and have to use the computer at work to adjust the pics, plus I put this together just before going on vaction.
Started out with 304 SS stock
Beginning of first end of host body. I actually made a couple of changes to the CNC progam to pre-drill the hole just enough so I can thread for the pill which normally fits a C-6 and you can get from Survival Laser or others.
Finished host body.
Top for heat sink, I made 2; a little different. I prefered the one on the right. They are a little rough around the diamond cuts. Still have to smooth and polish.
Copper and alum. heat sink. If you'll notice the counterbore on the bottom, it is to allow for wiring or stacking of drivers. As most of us know there is barely any room in a C-6 host.
Tailcap.
Notice the taper. At first it wasn't as much and the lip where the switch goes was thicker. I didn't like it, and think this has a sleeker look.
532nm 80mW diode & driver.
This was something I won on e-bay. I want to put a 510nm in it later. But for now this is all I had.
I needed a sleeve to hold the 2 AA batt to run this diode. The smaller 1/2 pvc couplings for water fountain pipe worked to slide the batt in, but had to turn the O.D. a little.
Battery sleeve
Ohh, NOW I find some nylon. Would have been great for the batteries.
I needed a conductive spacer to make up the battery length, so I turned a piece of nylon and drilled a 1/8 hole off- center for the wire.
Making a battery spacer.
I flattened both ends and bent them over, heated them with my soldering iron so they stay in place. Now I have a good center point for contact.
Battery spacer.
Here it is....
Finished host
Rear of host w GITD switch cover.
Front of host
Powered up
I've been finished with this for 3 weeks now. Started back in June though. I've just been waiting to post this before I go to the PGI convention with Jeff a.k.a.-Flaminpyro, but I was trying to fix the pics before I left.
I left this past Friday. I will be returning on the 17th and sleeping with the dead for about 12hrs.
I'm going to get him to do a proper review on it and then see if anyone would be intrested in purchasing one. Oh, BTW, he wonlt be back until the 1st of Sept as he went to SELEM and visiting his daughter in North Carolina. Must be nice to be retired. I'm going to talk to him about price, and maybe Sinner as well since this is more his area. I can also make it in aluminium. They will come standerd with aluminum heatsink (more $ for copper), clicky switch, and a GITD cover. I will ask Jeff to help me set up a PP acount as well.
Not sure how fast I can make them as I am still on OT at work.
Also if anyone is intrested, I can make the extension tubes for the C-6 as in my first laser post. They also fit the 501B as well.
They will be plain(no color) as I don't have a way to anodize, but nothing a can of Krylon won't fix as I did mine.
Thanks for looking,
Paul
P.S. I would like to point out how great Jeff and.his wife are. Hanging out with them has been great. He also let me play with his White Fusion time machine. I could have played with it for hours had it not been for a seminar I wanted to attend.
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