Ghostbusters PKE help needed

[howlingwind13]

For those of you who have built a working pke with servos...

I have the body kit from a member here, the hyperdyne light kit.

That being said I cannot get the resin wings to work with the light kit at all...just dosen't seem to fit. I tried selling the kit and and after non-paying bidders and people promising to send payments, I think I might just keep it. But the frustration is I'm not the best fabricator or prop builder. I make tons of stupid mistakes and end up screwing up the project.

Is there a way to make the wing covers? What did you guys do or what do you suggest?

HELP! please
mike

 

[masterjedi322]

Mike,
I'm currently working on a similar kit and ran into the same issue. My plan was to Dremel out the material in the wings so that the LEDs and circuit boards fit.

My backup plan is to fabricate new wings out of styrene.

Sean

 

[howlingwind13]

Mike,
I'm currently working on a similar kit and ran into the same issue. My plan was to Dremel out the material in the wings so that the LEDs and circuit boards fit.

My backup plan is to fabricate new wings out of styrene.

Sean

I tried to fabricate wings out of styrene before and they were too thick and bound up in the sides of the meter...:unsure I've tried to build this thing 3 times and always run into a wing problem...

 

[Rhett J Martin]

How thin was the styrene? If I'm doing the math right in my head . . .you'd need something like .20 or .30 gauge thickness.

 

[prototype7]

what about the good ole for sale sign trick? Never built one myself... Hotshot is probably the guy to talk to on this one. Just my 2cents

 

[howlingwind13]

what about the good ole for sale sign trick? Never built one myself... Hotshot is probably the guy to talk to on this one. Just my 2cents

Yep that's what i used, they didn't look good at the seems...so I used a sculpty putty...bad idea.


mike

 

[vaderman1701]

You may want to contact TheSt.LouisKid. He is THE expert on PKE wings. He makes the best ones out there. He is here on the RPF and on Proptopia (Heavy Ghostbuster Board).

Scott

 

[GuntahKela]

Are you using my kit?

This is how I fit the LEDs and wires with my kit. It's al fitted very snugged:

 

[howlingwind13]

Yep, that's the kit I'm using...the problem is my wing leds are mounted to circuit boards, which seemed like the easier way to go. But it's they just don't come together where all the wires bunch together.

 

[GuntahKela]

Ah, I see. My LEDs also came mounted on the board, but i could never get the board to work properly. So, I installed the wires to the LEDs directly.

If you decide to go on this route, you can follow exactly what I did in the pics.

 

[hyperdyne]

Does the board need to be smaller? If you can give me some feedback, I can try and modify the circuit boards so they fit better into the wing covers.

Wiring up the LEDs is your best bet as that gives you the most flexibility with the install.

 

[masterjedi322]

Does the board need to be smaller?

Jim,
I don't think it's that the board needs to be smaller, it's just that the LEDs don't exactly line up with the recesses in the wings.

I'll post some pics later to show you what I mean.

Sean

 

[hyperdyne]

ok, if its an assembly issue perhaps there may be a way to fix the LED pads or something else to make things easier to put together. Just let me know!

 

[howlingwind13]

Okay I spent pretty much all day (granted I'm not and ace prop builder) . I dremeled the light slots out more, and made them deeper. I had to dremel the lip on the wings around the light slots so that thery are really thin.
But it looks like I got the two wing halves to come together for the most part.
So just took alot of patients and test fitting. (after I did the first one the second one took no time because I knew how much I had to knock them down.).
mike

 

[masterjedi322]

Good job, Mike! How 'bout some pics?

Sean

 

[howlingwind13]

The wife's got the camera at work, I'll take a few shot when she gets home and maybe have her photoshop in what I did...
mike

 

[GuntahKela]

ok, if its an assembly issue perhaps there may be a way to fix the LED pads or something else to make things easier to put together. Just let me know!

Jim, are you making these PKE circuitry's again? People keep asking me for them.

 

[hyperdyne]

Yes I am. I have a batch of boards going out to the assemblers next week to be built up.

 

[howlingwind13]

In the first pic you can see by the yellow line that these were thicker...I cut them back so the board would fit inside.
In the second pic you can see I had to make the light notches deeper...
In the third you see how the half with the notches fits over the top of the board.


But after cutting the thickness back (pic one) I sanded the inside of the wing it self down. Which made the high parts...well higher, and then dremeled the light notches deeper.


On the second wing...( both wings were the same...not a right and left half, meaning that the lights are mounted to the same side on both boards) so that one I only made the light notches deeper...then had to cut slight grooves into the other half of the wing (because the led wires were in the way...

Hope this makes sense and helps somebody...

mike

 

[GuntahKela]

Yes I am. I have a batch of boards going out to the assemblers next week to be built up.

Aw, sweet! Time for another kit run! WheeeeeEEee!