The Ninja - Star Wars Vintage Parts Hunting & Props - UPDATE - Vintage Junex Sabrina 23 Carpet Sweeper
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Good question, I do not I picked these up on the RPF without doing any research, please let me know if they are in-accurate & I will correct my post and toss theses out as junk and hunt the accurate PL Connectors lol!!
ah! sorry Ian! well, i don't know if there are any close up shots of IG88 out there, I'm not finding anything clear so far. That's why i'm basing my comment on the ESB scanner part. It's in the same movie and is the same part, so I'm assuming they used the same for IG. That being said, as usual, there are a lot of variations on those parts, so it's always possible they used different connectors everywhere.
Thanks for the heads up, now to get hunting.
After Matthieu highlighted, I checked and they are PL-259-A Connectors they have the wrong profile, that'll teach me to be lazy and not research & hunt myself.
Vintage PL-259 Connectors
I picked up 17lb of old connectors looking for accurate PL-259 connectors for my IG-88 display, ended up with a nice haul of male connectors with a few variations, I also have to re-sort looking for the accurate smooth edge connectors used on FX-7 Medical Droid shout to Chris lonepigeon for the info on these connectors.
Bulk Lots:
Male Connectors:
Variations:
I picked up 17lb of old connectors looking for accurate PL-259 connectors for my IG-88 display, ended up with a nice haul of male connectors with a few variations, I also have to re-sort looking for the accurate smooth edge connectors used on FX-7 Medical Droid shout to Chris lonepigeon for the info on these connectors.
Bulk Lots:
Male Connectors:
Variations:
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Vintage Graflite Flash 3-Cell Black No.2773
I finally picked up a clean vintage Graflite Flash 3-Cell Black No.2773 been looking for ages for a clean flash at reasonable price to use for the X Wing Cockpit Graflite, I picked up the decal set from Chad TatooineMachine way way back...
This will look awesome displayed with the vintage Flight Helmet Hybrid Red-5 X-Wing Helmet Dustin newmagrathea is building
Graflite Flash 3x Cell Black No.2773:
X Wing Cockpit Graflite Decal Set:
I finally picked up a clean vintage Graflite Flash 3-Cell Black No.2773 been looking for ages for a clean flash at reasonable price to use for the X Wing Cockpit Graflite, I picked up the decal set from Chad TatooineMachine way way back...
This will look awesome displayed with the vintage Flight Helmet Hybrid Red-5 X-Wing Helmet Dustin newmagrathea is building
Graflite Flash 3x Cell Black No.2773:
X Wing Cockpit Graflite Decal Set:
woodywaverider
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Thanks for sharing, never seen one that already came in black, didn’t know they even existed.
Yeah not the easiest flash with attachments to find in nice condition at a reasonable price, way back I picked up a cheapy but it ended up full of battery corrosion.
I do believe the black Graflites originated with the Army and later became available to the public. Probably explains their rareness? Not definite on that tho. I’ve seen the full Army kits usually containing a black one. Just picked one up myself. Nice find
Yeah that's correct these black Graflite 3-Cell Flash that have Graflex around the band were originally part of military camera kits supplied to the US military, the kits changed over the period of issue, here's examples;
Vintage Junex Sabrina 23 Carpet Sweeper
Firstly a big shout-out to Jeff Robert Miller on FB who posted the discovery of the vintage Junex Sabrina 23 Carpet Sweeper which has a plastic push button used on many props & screen dressing (not sure if Jeff is a member on the RPF)
Secondly shortly after Jeff posted his discovery, my good buddy Kevin ModelBuilder contacted me letting me know he needed one for his builds, so the hunt was on, unfortunately timing was bad and I was on vacation thinking more about cold beers and beaches then Star Wars hunting but eventually I got my beer goggles off and hunting goggles on and hunted this vintage Junex Sabrina 23 Carpet Sweeper, it took some negotiations but eventually we got it shipped to Kevin in the US
Firstly a big shout-out to Jeff Robert Miller on FB who posted the discovery of the vintage Junex Sabrina 23 Carpet Sweeper which has a plastic push button used on many props & screen dressing (not sure if Jeff is a member on the RPF)
Secondly shortly after Jeff posted his discovery, my good buddy Kevin ModelBuilder contacted me letting me know he needed one for his builds, so the hunt was on, unfortunately timing was bad and I was on vacation thinking more about cold beers and beaches then Star Wars hunting but eventually I got my beer goggles off and hunting goggles on and hunted this vintage Junex Sabrina 23 Carpet Sweeper, it took some negotiations but eventually we got it shipped to Kevin in the US
ModelBuilder
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Amazing Find!
ModelBuilder
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Here are some more pictures of the Junex Sabrina 23 Carpet Sweeper. It’s a beauty! Glad to add this to the Collection! Thanks again for the help hunting this down!
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