hey it's norm and it's Adam Adam a couple of weeks ago we showed your
everyday carry but one thing you didn't have on you was your flashlight right I
mean I have like 15 or 20 different flashlights and I'd pulled one out of
the collection to use as my everyday carry but the one that I had normally
been carrying was lost it is a jet beam I have since gotten
another one but I have a problem with this jet beam it does everything that I
like in which it means it goes on and it goes off I don't need anything more
fancy in a flashlight right it's an LED flashlight enough lumens you're good
precisely however in the pulling it out of my pocket and using it it has a
recessed button yes and I don't like a recess button I like a proud button in
engineering when you have something sticking up over another thing you call
that proud I want a proud button so I'm gonna use
circles on your thumbs yes I'm going to use this beautiful machine here my old
room lathe to modify this flashlight and make it better and so basically you're
going to mount this in the lathe and trim off how much no actually it looks
like maybe 3/16 of an inch oh yeah okay shall we get started yeah that's good
so batter goes out battery goes out now I'm gonna pull the I'm gonna pull the
switch here I'd never pulled the switch on one of these before when I did it
before on my other one I just did it hot and because I was pressed for time and
it was kind of dumb yeah you don't want to break off that button no okay so
there's the button so right there the actual physical button is still inside
the plastic part the physical not just on that all cover yeah but so I've given
myself room to move and deburr and all of that stuff cuz what you can see is on
the side there's these two little tapped holes I'd like to lay this down to below
those so I don't have anything sticking up all right this is stainless they
don't often machine stainless depending on the kind of stainless it could
machine like butter or it could be a little bit problematic let's find out
it is really key when using the lathe at your tool height is actually dead in the
center of the object that you're turning
that's machining quite nicely all right I'm gonna bring some coolant into this
mix I've got a cooling system built up into the lathe there we go
if I could have told my young self one thing okay there would be many things
but one of them would be use more cooling fluid
okay that looks like it's pretty good right I'm pretty happy with that all
right so I'm gonna set this that distance that's gonna be my
it's going quite well one of the reasons you want to use
cooling fluid is that it keeps the temperature of the cut consistent it
doesn't allow the material to work harden at all your material gets really
hot it's actual properties can changing both your cutting bit and the material
that you're cutting and screw everything up
yeah and you can see it's spraying liquid everywhere it's a messy process
there we go all right so let's see how we did there
god damn that looks great okay so now I've cut off basically a
washer off the end I've got it to where I want but I've got a little bit if you
feel it you can feel a little bit of a burr oh yeah you don't want that I want
to remove that because I want it to be comfy so when you're operating the lathe
you first set off from zero and then you figure out how much you want to cut and
then it depends I am rarely lazing things that need to fit precisely into
other things that already exist so I end up doing a lot of my work from zero and
to zero okay but I also have doing a lot of it just total seat of the pants like
there's enough people like that all right
Beauty okay now what the same thing on the other side so I'm actually going to
reverse the direction of my lathe and then come into the other side
Oh
Jesus fell out but I think I caught them all question is in what order
okay I'm just going to hopper and sometimes I put it back together
perfect
that goes on that I'll wager this comes out through that what do you think yes
and so I just wanted to make sure that the ah they do have a specific
arrangement okay now that I see what that is
machine can do it so can you got it alright Adam a little bit of a scare
there yes I thought I screwed up the switch but I didn't know pop that back
in the other clicks back in pedal button goes on top give a nice beveled edge and
a proud button hopefully hopefully I'll be the proud owner of a crowd button it
actually works when I'm done with this
okay that's in battery battery and and hey we got light hold on let's just make
sure it goes on and off there we go all right now I've got the button see that
the buttons nice and proud yeah first is our bet my pocket the hole for the other
perfect nice little project another piece of your everyday carry now it's a
nice ideal flashlight you're that great thanks Adam
thank you back want Escom see us next time bye guys
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