sonic screwdriver Dr who

"those plans are completely off as far as acurate dimensions are concerned"

eh...close enough for government work...and to be fair...i'm doing a hardware version...i know it's not going to look anywhere near as nice as your's (which i would love to buy but simply can't afford)...but it'll still look nice on the shelf...

out of curiousity though...how far off are we talking?...1/8" (or more?.?) too wide? too narrow? is it too long? too short?...i resized the picture so that the scale is the right size (i assumed they meant 1.0, 2.0, etc or decimeters instead of centimeters) and the measurements seem right to me...handle is 7/8" wide, exterior shaft 11/16" wide, interior shaft 5/8", outer rings 3/4", total length (including head) is about 8 1/4"...are those horribly wrong?...if so...would you mind giving me more accurate dimensions?...

...skott
 
tool long too thick.

hardware version huh nothing wrong with that. I do that stuff once and a while. I think of the hardware store as my second hobby store.
 
I do wish to clarify the isuue of the baorrowed image from (TML) it is going to be removed and updated. I apologize. the design of the fisrt one seen in the pics I posted is a near mirror image of the TML design again I apologize. this one is mine. the limited run of 24 is being constructed from plans I drew back in the eightys. the are similar in design but then again almost anyone could watch the show and sit dwon to do a rough sketchy plan as to how it works. again I apologize
charlie
 
Originally posted by boatbuilder1@Mar 18 2006, 10:37 PM
I do wish to clarify the isuue of the baorrowed image from (TML) it is going to be removed and updated. I apologize. the design of the fisrt one seen in the pics I posted is a near mirror image of the TML design again I apologize. this one is mine. the limited run of 24 is being constructed from plans I drew back in the eightys. the are similar in design but then again almost anyone could watch the show and sit dwon to do a rough sketchy plan as to how it works. again I apologize
charlie
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Apologies accepted. I appreciate your response but must confess that I would have liked to have had it sooner and while I still was communicating my displeasure privately.

Whether or not a nearly identical mechanism was independantly developed by you or was copied from mine is ultimately irrelevent to me. Karstva is doing what friends do, looking out for me and since, to our knowledge no one had a functional SS mechanism like it before mine was produced here, he called it like he saw it. I do find it interesting though that this is the fourth nearly identical one produced that I know of since mine was designed, but as I said, ultimately it doesn't matter since I expected it to be copied after it was revealed anyway (especially on the RPF) and was resigned to it. Water under the bridge.

My major problem was the pic of the Pertwee one I painted for Karstva being used without permission and in such a way that it could be said to be a representation of your work rather than mine. I have had my work stolen twice before by RPF members who thought nothing of doing it and showed no real remorse for their actions and have had others use images from my portfolio (even before the internet) and passed them off as their own work. So you can imagine how irritating it was to see my pic taken and used without permission (I do have the "no right-click" option on for a reason).

Tim L.
 
You can also see the handle bevel (and the hole that goes through it) and slot in "The Ark In Space" Ep1 and "Carnival of Monsters" Ep3 (I think). The eimitter in Carnival looks like it could be the bullet without the back cylindrical part, leaving, basically, a cone with a threaded hole in the center.

Someone had posted (a long time back) a pic of a chiropractic activator gun that was very similar to the SS. Perhaps the handle was a tool part that the props guys combined with an activator gun.

Tim L.
 
OK here's where I wish I had the PAL versions of the discs, to eke out that extra bit of resolution. :lol

But here's the best I can do with these from "City of Death".. Here's the first appearance of the prop, where the Doctor is trying to break out of Scarlioni's dungeon. In one of the shots, it seems like the head of the screwdriver (the bullet and the round halo part) is knocked completely askew, up about 45 degrees.

As part of the action in this scene, Duggan takes the screwdriver and KNOCKS it against the dungeon door. This could have damaged the prop, or at least jarred it out of alignment I suppose...

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Here's the prop's second appearance, a very nice closeup as the Doctor breaks into the gallery where the TARDIS is parked.

Note the black band at the end is askew. Is it a rubber band..?

Also there seems to be a HOLE near the top (or screwhead, hard to be sure). Tom Baker easily handles the screwdriver one-handed, and is only pulling down the sleeve part a little ways in these shots.

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Also note that the "bullet" is mounted pretty far back... the mounting screws that are attached to the round halo part, are closer to the rounded tip than to the flat back.


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Lastly Romana uses her screwdriver to break into the cafe, but it's too far from the camera to make out details.

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- k
 
Another fine Screwdriver scene, from the Pertwee episode "Carnival of Monsters."

Pertwee plunges the sleeve one-handed (apparently using just his thumb.)... and as you can see the travel is very short, compared to the prop used by Tom Baker in "City of Death". Also note the black spiral line on the yellow part, is just graphic line tape.

Also the "bullet" part in the head is not so much a "bullet", as it is some sort of stepped cylinder with a hole in. But the Screwdriver famously takes different head-attachments, so this one is the "scaring off stop-motion monsters by setting off explosions" attachment. :D

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- k
 
The Screwdriver makes some dramatic appearances in "The Pirate Planet"... note the "split head" with screw.

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Tim
Thank you for excepting my apology you don't know how sorry I am. as you say water under the bridge I would like to put this in the past far ago past again my apologies. I was not aware of your responce until late last night I was out of running errands.
if you would like pm me and I can send you copies of my plans.

charlie have a great day you deserve it
 
Nice screen caps very nice. Now I am confused, that band is askewed nice catch.
That is weird I wonder why rubber band ? That would help with the grip and use of one hand pull down, but it doesn't appear to stand proud of the main body IMHO it looks like a depression. The small hole in the top I beleive that is a set screw or grub screw to hold the conical top on, I remember seeing a pic of the stepped band in the middle having a set screw hole as well. This could speed up the construction process significantly. Think the main slider turned with just the rings and grooves, the the top and mid stepped ring added during final assembly. Also I see the bevel at the botton cap is not as wide as I had though, I did mine with nearly 1/3 cut off now with this new evidence it appears more like a smaller bevel maybe 1/5 of the width. The action of the pertwee version is much like the baker version except for the outer sleeve, its almost like the outer sleeve comes down and engages a step or notch then pulls the inner sleeve down to reveal the ring heads mount and rod. at least that is how I see it I did not like the way the conical top looked on mine so I turned it down and hadded it just like the origianl as a separate part
charlie
 
Nice work Charlie.

I realize you're still working on it, but I'll refer to my blueprint I just made (previous post), regarding hole placement and the relative size of the head and the screw in the head (which I think is a flathead screw if I'm not mistaken...). But as always I defer to the Screwdriver experts who have come before. :D

- k
 
see the pic
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the question asked was will my replicas have them? well it wouldn't be a replica with out them would it. and that would not be me the perfectionist

charlie
 
Wow. a straight-cut slot, revealing the interior?

Hm....

I think the "red cross" on the grip ring (and possibly even the "screw hole" you're seeing there) are just paint scraps remaining (assuming that ring had been painted and most of it has worn off). Perhaps evidence that this is the same prop that Pertwee used, just with the colorful deco removed?

I wonder if that grip ring might be knurled.... :unsure


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