phillbarron
Active Member
Looking around, it seems like no one's identified the white box greeblies from the ANH belt. Apologies if that's not the case and everyone except me knows what they are. If so, this is a really pointless post.
I was procrastinating the other day, trying not to do any work and started idly wondering what they might be. They look like relays and aircraft relays seem like a good bet given how much of Star Wars was made from aircraft scrap. Scrap suggests old and I thought they might be British. From that starting point I whiled away a few hours on Google and came up with these:
Have these come up before?
Okay, so they're the wrong colour, have (probably) too many prongs, no writing on the short side or dimple on the long side ... but the shape and size looks close.
A bit of investigation told me they're vintage RAF parts, produced in the '50s and, importantly, covered in some kind of rubber paint.
Maybe they're white underneath? Maybe there's a range of these a d one of them is the correct one?
Further googling found this:
Which looks closer, and this:
Which might have a dimple and who knows what kind of prong configuration?
So I bought one and disassembled it.
And discovered ... it's not the right one.
The one on the right is a resin replica I inexpertly assembled.
The one I bought is silver under the coating and has the same prong config as the second one I found. It's not right, but ... it's kind of close.
A coat of paint and it might just work. The size is a little large at 5x4x2 cm, but it looks and feels very Star Wars.
It would need bigger pouches on the belt, but I don't know ... what do you think?
If nothing else, maybe they can help someone else get closer to finding the real thing?
I was procrastinating the other day, trying not to do any work and started idly wondering what they might be. They look like relays and aircraft relays seem like a good bet given how much of Star Wars was made from aircraft scrap. Scrap suggests old and I thought they might be British. From that starting point I whiled away a few hours on Google and came up with these:
Have these come up before?
Okay, so they're the wrong colour, have (probably) too many prongs, no writing on the short side or dimple on the long side ... but the shape and size looks close.
A bit of investigation told me they're vintage RAF parts, produced in the '50s and, importantly, covered in some kind of rubber paint.
Maybe they're white underneath? Maybe there's a range of these a d one of them is the correct one?
Further googling found this:
Which looks closer, and this:
Which might have a dimple and who knows what kind of prong configuration?
So I bought one and disassembled it.
And discovered ... it's not the right one.
The one on the right is a resin replica I inexpertly assembled.
The one I bought is silver under the coating and has the same prong config as the second one I found. It's not right, but ... it's kind of close.
A coat of paint and it might just work. The size is a little large at 5x4x2 cm, but it looks and feels very Star Wars.
It would need bigger pouches on the belt, but I don't know ... what do you think?
If nothing else, maybe they can help someone else get closer to finding the real thing?
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