Can you spot weld aluminum?
Halliwax's weird V3 theory
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Can you spot weld aluminum?
Joek3rr
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In SethS book he has a picture with Mark holding the pre-Barbican
On page 28? The two pictures on the left are the Luke/vader shared stunt. The Barbican has always had a block/shoulder, just a modified one sometime after ANH.
Oh my gosh I found it in the gallery at the end. That's mislabeled. It's just another "stunt" graflex from the ANH era, with black tape on the top.
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Joek3rr
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Joek3rr
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Gotcha.
Anywho my theory still stands. I'm wondering if the reason Mark's using that saber is that the V3 is broken at that time. I mean we all know how much he hated using the Graflex's. Which is probably why they Obi stunts got used for practice so much. Though it could be something much less glamorous like someone just forgot to the V3 bring that day. Or they just randomly handed him that saber that day.
jorged123
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You can TIG weld cast aluminum. I've never tried it. I thought maybe aluminum would be too easily melted.
Maybe but alu is already a fairly soft metal, but after it's forged/cast, it drops in strength. I don't think any welding was done on this, otherwise it'd just melt. From my experience following the footsteps of the originals, anyway.
Image is blurry but maybe the emitter did fly off with the dueling rod? The way Mark seems to hold the saber, his hands don't hold onto the windvane; they're wrapped around the booster area and the grenade body.
I didn‘t post the video, but it is called „Star Wars featurette: The birth of the lightsaber“. The chopping is at second 5:45.
Couldn‘t even say for sure if Hamill uses a V3 type saber here due to the low resolution.
I had assumed it was the Barbican because Brandon mentioned it was around for ROTJ, and the line in the paint was where the block was. There's a pic of Hamill's stunt double with it too.
But yeah, pretty sure now it's one of the simple tube stunt sabers we have a couple pics of, including it being on the table in front of Christian in the archives.
You're in London? D*mn, I wish I could come over!
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Starting to think like previously mentioned.. maybe the emitter is still attached to the rod when it flys off the v3.. judging by the nipple on this rod.. the flying rod looks to have a much larger area in that spot..
Staring to lean towards the whole emitter flying off.. this would also explain its construction and how the emitter can’t still be attached..
Staring to lean towards the whole emitter flying off.. this would also explain its construction and how the emitter can’t still be attached..
That IS a very short nipple, enough to fill that shallow hole in the V3... and run down the whole neck into the body....cavity... is that the short blade? I was thinking the only short ones we see are a Graflex on Hoth and a Yuma, however that seems like a pre-Yuma-ROTJ blade.. Graflexes also needed a long stem inside... but as to whether the stem was threaded (into the core) or just a skinnier rod (pinched with a set screw in a core) I have no idea.
I don’t think the blade on the table is the blade for the v3. Because the nipple doesn’t match
BUT I wouldn’t be surprised if the blades well all constructed the same way
What I mean by that is the nipple acts like a stop, so the depth of the rod is the same length all the time
The nipple on the v3 looks kinda large and not as defined at the v2. Doesn’t look as though it has steps in the nip
I still to this day see steps in the Yuma Nip (blade nip) and I believe there is a grub screw in the nip on blade side as well
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