Blank firing Blade Runner Blaster - Advice needed.

[funboy1013xx]

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[joberg]

Not your fault dude...besides, the Sidkit and Siderio/Michelle is an accepted prop around here (and at Propsummit also). No banning hammer here...move on and keep on building

 

[funboy1013xx]

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[Dtrasler]

I can't fathom taking on something this intense. My hat is off to you! Following this build with interest and the greatest respect.

 

[H0llyw00d]

You guys are the awesomest thing... ever...

 

[H0llyw00d]

Man... I suck so bad at paint it's sad really:

But, since all my props are "as issued" and weathering comes from playing with them it evens out in the end:

I was pretty pleased with how sanding down the inside of the grips went. Sanding wheel, 100 grit, 200 grit, 1000 grit, polishing wheel :

the proportions are almost like the donor was made for the prop:

Oh, and you will have to grind out a notch in the receiver for the hammer to pass through:

I kept trying to form the trigger guard since I can't install the 2nd trigger until the guard is on there and after my third JB welding it was officially fixed until it was broken. Luckily @BR12819 sent me some aluminum and some steel stock (you rock, brother), so with a couple of vice grips and a couple of days of upper body workout I'll eventually get it beaten into submission:

 

[Noeland]

If you're just gluing the second trigger to that metal, it's probably never going to be on there very strongly. JB weld has never worked for me in that regard. You might need to drill and tap into the trigger, and drill and tap into the frame, and use a grub screw to connect them, and then add some steel stick, or bondo steel putty so you have something much less brittle than JB weld.

 

[H0llyw00d]

If you're just gluing the second trigger to that metal, it's probably never going to be on there very strongly. JB weld has never worked for me in that regard. You might need to drill and tap into the trigger, and drill and tap into the frame, and use a grub screw to connect them, and then add some steel stick, or bondo steel putty so you have something much less brittle than JB weld.

Thanks, man. Oh, no I intend to screw the second trigger to the frame (similar to the Hartford design in your pic), but in order to know where best to put it it needs the guard in place to determine symmetry. I filled in the notch I Dremeled in the frame with JB Weld and tried to form the trigger guard I had broken with the heat gun together but it's impossible to bend with the existing break already in it. So, gotta make a new trigger guard... sucks...

 

[H0llyw00d]

Why is nothing ever easy? The dimensions are all wrong on the trigger guard but I think I'll do the wiring next. I'm sore from wrestling with that steel bar for freaking hours.

 

[H0llyw00d]

Thanks again, @BR12819 for the bar stock, man. That trigger guard can take a serious beating and definitely adds a dimension regardless of how I still have much work to do.

 

[funboy1013xx]

just like a "real world" gun, you'r adding custom accessories. I could imagine a bladerunner going to a gunsmith and asking for "something alil more robust" in the trigger guard, especially with 2 trigger's.

 

[H0llyw00d]

just like a "real world" gun, you'r adding custom accessories. I could imagine a bladerunner going to a gunsmith and asking for "something alil more robust" in the trigger guard, especially with 2 trigger's.

Yeah, the trigger guard is growing on me. It has to make a 4-5mm forward advance that requires it to either flatten out at the bottom or dip low in its curve...

That prop is a pretty thing

 

[H0llyw00d]

Looks like the hero opts to flatten out the bottom.

 

[H0llyw00d]

Then I guess that is what I'll do... dang it :/

 

[Noeland]

HEAT. Hold a hair dryer on that bar for 10 or 15 minutes and bending it will be so much easier.

 

[joberg]

Paint looks good from where I stand yep...flatten trigger guard

 

[H0llyw00d]

HEAT. Hold a hair dryer on that bar for 10 or 15 minutes and bending it will be so much easier.

Awesome! Thanks! Will do. I was wanting an anvil in the "never-thought-you-would-feel-that" department.

 

[H0llyw00d]

Well THAT was an aggravating way to spend a Saturday. In a moment of clarity/frustration I ordered a few 1/2" x 1/8" x 6" aluminum bars (duh). No more working with steel for this guy... :

Hoping to do a low light firing test this evening... muahahah!!!

 

[H0llyw00d]

I was so excited about pretending to make Daryl Hanna flop like a fish, both my daughter and I forgot to put TP in our ears:

My cameraperson lost motivation... I swear if she wan't union...

 

[Noeland]

Hope the aluminum works out better for you!