Tom Baker Sonic Screwdriver SHOCKING EVIDENCE!
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Did you get round to doing this phez?
phez
Sr Member
Yes, well I machined it out of a piece of copper plumbing tube I had laying around :lol but you can see the size scale of the parts. I am fairly sure Russ's sonic is dead on with the smaller halo. The bullet looks correct to me so I think it is possible that the 1/2 inch magnet is likely what was used on the origenal.
NOTE: The 3/4 magnet is WAY too big (it is the size of the whole halo in my pics).
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Yes, well I machined it out of a piece of copper plumbing tube I had laying around :lol but you can see the size scale of the parts. I am fairly sure Russ's sonic is dead on with the smaller halo. The bullet looks correct to me so I think it is possible that the 1/2 inch magnet is likely what was used on the origenal.
NOTE: The 3/4 magnet is WAY too big (it is the size of the whole halo in my pics).
That halo looks spot on with Russ's bullet. I think the magnet should be a tad longer though for SA. Looks good. I want one that size.
With a smaller halo, longer magnet, slightly narrower grooves on the slider and a smaller additional one on the base, I think that it would be the most accurate version to date.
Straker
Sr Member
I also think that there should be a small spacer between the halo and the neck. I installed one on my older model and I'm really very pleased with it.
Ectropy
New Member
Agreed, with the addition of the rounded convex bottom as seen in these screen captures:
Pic credit: phase pistol
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karstva
Sr Member
I have also noticed that from this screen cap the bullet is not flush with the emitter ring..it extends a hair past it, I am not sure if anyone has mentioned that before in this thread?
Agreed, with the addition of the rounded convex bottom as seen in these screen captures:
Pic credit: phase pistol
Pic credit: unknown
greatwazoo42
Master Member
They probably "tarted" the old girl up a bit to take advantage of the show being in color. Remember it was the early '70's and everything had to be eye-popping.
It has been mentioned, but more interestingly with that bit of info, you can tell that the halo was very very small in diameter to be able to disappear that far down the end. Something I hadn't thought about till you brought it up again.
karstva
Sr Member
I figured it had, as we have quiet a few sharp eyes here but good call on the emitter ring as well. yes I does sit fairly deep into the shaft. That being said..could it be that the ring size changed as later on it didn't sit as far down in. Or did it remain the same and just the set point of the shaft changed
but good call on the emitter ring as well. yes I does sit fairly deep into the shaft. That being said..could it be that the ring size changed as later on it didn't sit as far down in. Or did it remain the same and just the set point of the shaft changed It has been mentioned, but more interestingly with that bit of info, you can tell that the halo was very very small in diameter to be able to disappear that far down the end. Something I hadn't thought about till you brought it up again.
greatwazoo42
Master Member
"They" (I'm guessing either the Beeb Props Dept or the outside contractor artist that the Beeb hired) probably just put a blind screw back in that little hole in the cone section so that it would catch on the bottom part of the head assembly instead of knocking into the ring.
phez
Sr Member
Looking at the scene from the side you can see that the bullet sticks out a bit in front of the halo. I bet the magnet is just screwed directly on to that. That would give it the extra length in the front that we see in the later screen caps.
What I am interseted in is what Asp9mm has mentioned. If the magnet is 1/2 inch (a good bet) that would mean that the halo was likely cut out of 3/4 inch tube (standard size). If that is the case I think the sonic may be a little bit bigger than we think.
Straker
Sr Member
I figured it had, as we have quiet a few sharp eyes here
Well it's been some time since i jumped back in and i hate to bump a thread (no i dont) but I had an idea to take one of the recent Pertwee style sonics that Russ made and readjusting it so the emitter halo sits lower down like in these screen caps. i think it would be as easy as milling or drilling the little shelf in the neck piece down a bit so when it comes back up it covers more of the bullet, and then shortening the internal shaft by the same amount that you milled off inside the neck to preserve the position of the handle and activation sleeve positions as how Russ set it up. It might work well.
p51
Sr Member
Here’s mine. My Dad made this for me when I was a kid, probably around 1984 or 85 I'd think, when the peak of the Dr Who (PBS driven) frenzy was going full strong in the US. Dad has a goofy sense of down-home humor, he always referred to it as the "Sonic nose picker"!
It’s made out of solid stainless steel! This was made to the drawings in the Dr Who Tech manual (which wasn't to scale) and approximated for size based on observations of the real one in Tom Baker's hands on TV. It weighs a lot, I'm sure you could use it as a handy weapon if you had to. I never realized there was a diagonal slot at the end until just recently.
At one point I had painted the head end, but when Dad took that part apart to add the stainless covering for the screw holding it together (and replacing the screw with stainless as well), he stripped the paint off. I'd actually lost track of this when I went into the Army, and one day a bunch of loose items I'd lost track of showed up from my folks, there it was. Trust me, I haven't lost track of it ever again.
It’s made out of solid stainless steel! This was made to the drawings in the Dr Who Tech manual (which wasn't to scale) and approximated for size based on observations of the real one in Tom Baker's hands on TV. It weighs a lot, I'm sure you could use it as a handy weapon if you had to. I never realized there was a diagonal slot at the end until just recently.
At one point I had painted the head end, but when Dad took that part apart to add the stainless covering for the screw holding it together (and replacing the screw with stainless as well), he stripped the paint off. I'd actually lost track of this when I went into the Army, and one day a bunch of loose items I'd lost track of showed up from my folks, there it was. Trust me, I haven't lost track of it ever again.
greatwazoo42
Master Member
That is fantastic! I would treasure the hell out of that not just because it's a sonic but it's a sonic my dad made. A friend of mine back when I was in high school found out I was a Who fan and asked his dad to do one for me out of wood on a lathe. I still have that one.
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