Luke ESB Saber - newly acquired part

[Sym-Cha]

yes ... yes plenty of pictures please ... instead of a thousand words



Chaim

 

[thd9791]

I don't know where the hell this pic came from, or what DV saber it's from but look! ILM used the thick portions of edge connectors!

 

[Sym-Cha]

That's probably the so-called DV Barbican saber with an MPP clamp ... as far as I know it has not been used on screen ... please correct me if mistaken :unsure

Chaim

 

[thd9791]

That board finally came. I've documented trimming it down here. This Roman clamp I have is unscrewed twice (or four flips) so if I have a fully tight clamp on a flashgun in the future, I will sand down the gold side primarily, and a little of the silver to make it fit and keep the ratio the same right?

Here we go!
http://imgur.com/a/OO4f9

 

[Sym-Cha]

Very nice ... and I finally understood what you meant ... very clear pictures ... by the way have you ever thought of becoming a 'hand' model ... such nice hands

Chaim

 

[OdiWan72]

What kind of pc-board is this?
How is it called?

thanks in advance,

Markus

So it turns out one of those boards doesn't work for this prop - and while I was dicking around trying to figure out how to add thin silver fingers and not mess it up, I realized that there was a board I wanted that got lost in communication (very bad business man, confused the hell out of me so I just took whatever he gave me) and I noticed the guy still had boards for sale. I asked him if this certain board was still around - I don't need the one I have left and he could get some $ for it. I offered a trade basically, to correct the sale. His only response was "pay me" over and over so I kept this one (I'll decide what to do with it) and I got another smaller piece. Ironically, it might have a better finger pattern than the one above, we'll see when it comes View attachment 356486

 

[thd9791]

lmfao Thanks Chaim - no I haven't, I play guitar religiously, so there's that

Markus - Honestly I have no idea. This board specifically has no chips, just a bunch of resistors and whatnot
I do know that whatever mainframe computers looked like back in the 70s...These were plugged into Otis Elevator computers and used to run the darned thing. The larger boards I have are nearly all chips.

I have yet to find schematics of elevator control centers in 1975

a big help would be if anyone recognized that red logo printed into the board!

 

[clancampbell]

What do you guys think of this? Any good? It looks to me like the silver traces might be too thin and short.....but it looks pretty nice!

Rich

 

[Sym-Cha]

Looks nice Rich, ... indeed the silver fingers are a bit thin though

Chaim

 

[thd9791]

That is a nice board! I'm sure, though, that the edge of a graflex clamp would cover any silver fingers if cut on the line of holes. You need a little more meat to work with

 

[roygilsing]

Hi all!

I finally created a tutorial for the Luke ESB hero prop at my WannaWanga website:
http://wannawanga.com/tutorials/luke-esb-tutorial/

Here's the result:


I hope you enjoy it! Please feel free to comment.

Roy