New Elstree Studio documentary with discarded Graflex.
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Pixelpiper
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I live about 5 minutes away from where the Robertson screws were first manufactured, right in the hometown of the inventor P.L. Robertson in Milton. The school directly behind my kids' school is named after the inventor.
I don't know how common a robby screw was in the UK during Star Wars production, but I have a hard time believing the prop department just had them kicking around and didn't have a blind/pop rivet gun and rivets.
I don't know how common a robby screw was in the UK during Star Wars production, but I have a hard time believing the prop department just had them kicking around and didn't have a blind/pop rivet gun and rivets.
...and drilling and popping a rivet is a heck of a lot easier (and less time consuming) than drilling and tapping screws.
I call Occom’s razor on this one...
OK I double dog dare you to go all the way with that replica and take a welding torch to the bunny ear end.
I couldn’t do it. I didn’t have the heart to drill the d ring hole,I glued it on,cut the head off of a rivit and glued it on as well. Glad I did because I would have had to buy a new vintage folmer today.OK I double dog dare you to go all the way with that replica and take a welding torch to the bunny ear end.
I don’t blame you one bit.
Zoomed in on the high res pic from Graflex bank of Mark Hamill looking down the saber emitter, Im seeing two highlights (rivets?) on the d-ring. Also shown is the zoomed in toe pic that Victor Antonios posted on the Graflex Addicts facebook group. Coincidence that both show highlights resembling double rivets? NOT saying this the same saber as the one just found, but that the hero is using the same style double riveted D ring as the newly discovered stunt.
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Drew Baker
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That is interesting. Thanks for looking into that!
Exactly, thanks for highlighting those
AnubisGuard
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Crazy to think that the Icons replica may have been right after all about the number of rivets, even if they were wrong about the orientation.
I was hoping that’s what you were talking about
If these graflex’s do all have double riveted d rings...
This proves to me roger is a 100% fraud and never assembled a single lightsaber...
He discovered the 3 cells no doubt.. but from them to his friends shop, and the friend assembled them..
If we can 100% prove the hero’s on screen have double rivets, I’m sticking to my theory of Roger lying about fabricating the lightsabers himself...
This explains his incorrect statements..
If it is, then the bottom half and/or the bracket itself would have to be rotated 180 degrees from how it is in the toe pic, based on the clamp position in the cave photo. The area being pointed out should be the bare bottom of the stamped endcap.
Been looking at the toe pic, and I’m still seeing one central rivet. I think that lower “rivet” highlight people are seeing is actually the light reflecting off of the d-ring and onto the bottom lip of the flash, or vice-versa.
The idea that the bracket—especially this much smaller bracket seen on the Elstree prop—would even need two rivets is strange. At first glance, you might think that the ESB bracket had two rivets because they were trying to replicate the original film’s props, but no—the Kobold piece already had two holes. Two rivets on the tiny Elstree bracket piece seems a bit like overkill, and also goes counter to the Graflex case d-ring theory.
Those are small rivets, i think the creator.. who ever it is
Thought having 1 small rivet in the table would still allow the d ring tab to spin (and in some cases I’ve worked with, yes)
That’s why he punched in 2 crudely located rivets
It amazes me how different a English rivet looks compared to a US rivet...
My significant investment in single rivet ANH D-ring mounts dictates that the answer to the two rivet question MUST be that all other lightsabers, other than the Elstree Graflex, were single rivet D-ring mounts.
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