Alright folks, went to Shaner electric, who managed to find ballasts for my dads 70s bathroom bulbs and they guy looked at the 3 D print and sighed. He has no idea, his best guess was a micro switch and without part numbers he wouldn’t be able to even search.
so, yea I got the parts from shapeways. The control box is the only thing I ordered for this saber and is actually solid plastic, not a shell! Not half bad, and I’m tempted to use it without any other options.
i used VHB tape to stick on some 9cm grips, roughly scaled from the visual dictionary’s dimensions they typed out.
I used a gold colored bread pan to cut a brass disc (yes really) and with a dreamer cut off wheel...it came out looking pretty similar to the prop itself. That’s one of Roy’s d rings popped on there as well as his grips! I drilled all three once, riveted them together and then did the second hole from the beginning.
i used the old MOM pictures to line everything up and the holes on the prop really don’t line up in a like ESB fashion. I noticed when I started laying the t track on, the ones up top are centered and the ones on bottom are off to a side, like t was upside down or something.
weirdzzz anyways next comes the control box, a shroud and the d ring...the other one.
ooh! The motorcycle tire valves came and they’re too small, so I’m sticking with my original ones.
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I used a dremel. I do not make dreamers cut my lightsaber parts