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Balance pipes are $1,500.00...?
The Ultimate Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi Real Vintage Parts Lightsaber Group
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The post you quoted was 7 years old and prices do fluctuate on the parts over time as more things are found. Specifically the Rolls Royce engines.
Right now balance pipes are anywhere from $3000-6000 depending on what you're going for, and it's typically the most expensive part of the saber, although the booster has went up significantly and can often be in the $4000 range right now.
Right now balance pipes are anywhere from $3000-6000 depending on what you're going for, and it's typically the most expensive part of the saber, although the booster has went up significantly and can often be in the $4000 range right now.
PHArchivist
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Presumed these parts would be costly, but didn't realize to that degree...
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The bulk purchase of aircraft parts (and other junk I presume), probably cost the production far less that one a single "All Original" Obi-Wan saber would cost to build today...
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Quite possibly the most neurotic question in this thread:
The natural grain of the metal in a real GRAFLEX clamp - does it encircle the band, or run the length of the band?
The natural grain of the metal in a real GRAFLEX clamp - does it encircle the band, or run the length of the band?
The brushed finish of a Graflex clamp follows the circumference, same as the tube of the flash.
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Hah! THANK you for confirming!
The brushed finish of a Graflex clamp follows the circumference, same as the tube of the flash.
I'd tell you all why I asked, but it is sacrilege to this thread...
Ah, what the hell - using buffable paints and SnJ Rub n Buff (on my resin clamp portion), and want to buff in the correct direction.
(As all the while I'm settling for a "good enough" answer to the transistors
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(As all the while I'm settling for a "good enough" answer to the transistors
Since you brought that up... I would have cut the height of the pieces you used in half.
But that's just me.
PHArchivist
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Noticed the do stand a tad tall...Since you brought that up... I would have cut the height of the pieces you used in half.
But that's just me.
The are simple caps / on-off knobs for some little R2-D2 shaped LED lamps I had in the spares box.
Might hack them back off, shorten them, and fill the grooves...
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Would it surprise anyone that I already tore them off, ground them down (by about a quarter; not half though), and reattached...?Since you brought that up... I would have cut the height of the pieces you used in half.
But that's just me.
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