RogueSkynet
Well-Known Member
This is my custom, screen accurate build for the CPU Chip Flask and Holder from Terminator 2.
Machined aluminium parts and borosilicate glass tube.
4-40 du-bro rods and rubber o-rings.
I still need to paint up a recast of an original chip and create a wall mount similar to how it is presented in the movie.
Here is my progress so far.
The parts freshly machined in aluminium, scaled from screenshots along with using a recast chip as reference for all the dimensions. To account for some shrinkage of the recast chip I increased dimensions by a few %. I will most likely get the resin chip remade a few percent larger in brass so it is cleaner....and metal. (A few Cyberdyne Systems vault key bodies are in the picture also.)
I had to tap the small holes in the end caps for the du-bro 4-40 rods that the chip will sit on. I then had to cut the rods to size. They are bolted into one endcap and slot into the other so the flask can be dismantled when needed.
Main holder parts bolted together.
End caps slot nicely into place.
Time to install the Du-Bro rods and o-rings. A little fact, Du-bro rods were used in production as pistons on the terminator T-800 jaw.
The glass tube was cut to size, but was slightly too long when I received it. The company cut it 1mm over, this was enough for it not to fit. I had to wet sand the end until it fit perfectly. It probably worked out better as I originally planned for around 0.5mm play. But as I got to fine tune it, it now is exactly the perfect size that it slots in with zero play or slop.
Perfect fit.
That is as far as I have got so far.
I will update as I get the wall mount and CPU chip finished.
Check out my other all metal Terminator builds. I have made a metal skull, metal bust and a metal arm.
Thanks for checking out my build!
Machined aluminium parts and borosilicate glass tube.
4-40 du-bro rods and rubber o-rings.
I still need to paint up a recast of an original chip and create a wall mount similar to how it is presented in the movie.
Here is my progress so far.
The parts freshly machined in aluminium, scaled from screenshots along with using a recast chip as reference for all the dimensions. To account for some shrinkage of the recast chip I increased dimensions by a few %. I will most likely get the resin chip remade a few percent larger in brass so it is cleaner....and metal. (A few Cyberdyne Systems vault key bodies are in the picture also.)
I had to tap the small holes in the end caps for the du-bro 4-40 rods that the chip will sit on. I then had to cut the rods to size. They are bolted into one endcap and slot into the other so the flask can be dismantled when needed.
Main holder parts bolted together.
End caps slot nicely into place.
Time to install the Du-Bro rods and o-rings. A little fact, Du-bro rods were used in production as pistons on the terminator T-800 jaw.
The glass tube was cut to size, but was slightly too long when I received it. The company cut it 1mm over, this was enough for it not to fit. I had to wet sand the end until it fit perfectly. It probably worked out better as I originally planned for around 0.5mm play. But as I got to fine tune it, it now is exactly the perfect size that it slots in with zero play or slop.
Perfect fit.
That is as far as I have got so far.
I will update as I get the wall mount and CPU chip finished.
Check out my other all metal Terminator builds. I have made a metal skull, metal bust and a metal arm.
Thanks for checking out my build!
