Kresty's Dagobah Fusion Generator / Reactor / Furnace - whatever you want to call it.
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Well, I applied some rustoleum hammered metal stuff on the primer, and played around with the cord... I keep breaking the little posts off, I should've used better glue. This is a draft photo, but it shows the fake cord.
Well, I applied some rustoleum hammered metal stuff on the primer, and played around with the cord... I keep breaking the little posts off, I should've used better glue. This is a draft photo, but it shows the fake cord.
We ended up replacing the end with some Lego though to attach to L3-G0.
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For the top coils we used 4' of 20 gauge bronze-ish craft wire (thought copper would be too bright). That's a bit too thin, so I have 1.5mm wire on order. 1.5mm is about perfect (somewhere between 14 and 16 gauge) as I had a color to play with, but it's the wrong color. So, we're waiting for that to arrive from China, but in the meantime we coiled them up by hand.
We wound the 4' of wire on a 3/8" diameter (about 10mm) dowel, and that looks about right to us. It also produces about as many coils as I counted on the photos. It proves to be a bit difficult/tiring to wind, so we ended up putting a screw in one end, attaching the other to the chuck in a drill, and then using the drill slowly in reverse (for the direction I'd been hand coiling them). It worked to hook the wire around the screw to start it, but took a little practice to get decent at it. For the 1.5mm wire the drill technique is nearly required!
Somehow I don't seem to have a photo of the coiling process. I'll try to fix that when the real wires come in.
For the top coils we used 4' of 20 gauge bronze-ish craft wire (thought copper would be too bright). That's a bit too thin, so I have 1.5mm wire on order. 1.5mm is about perfect (somewhere between 14 and 16 gauge) as I had a color to play with, but it's the wrong color. So, we're waiting for that to arrive from China, but in the meantime we coiled them up by hand.
We wound the 4' of wire on a 3/8" diameter (about 10mm) dowel, and that looks about right to us. It also produces about as many coils as I counted on the photos. It proves to be a bit difficult/tiring to wind, so we ended up putting a screw in one end, attaching the other to the chuck in a drill, and then using the drill slowly in reverse (for the direction I'd been hand coiling them). It worked to hook the wire around the screw to start it, but took a little practice to get decent at it. For the 1.5mm wire the drill technique is nearly required!
Somehow I don't seem to have a photo of the coiling process. I'll try to fix that when the real wires come in.
Re: Kresty's Dagobah Fusion Generator / Reactor / Furnace - whatever you want to call
And, the "final" fusion reactor. We took it to the premiere at the Pacific Science Center (because we could).
We still want to make the coils thicker, and need to do something about the posts snapping off, but we're quite happy with it! (The hoses stick out a lot on the bottom, so it's hard to move it without breaking them.)
Another photo with the droids at the Pacific Science Center.
And, the "final" fusion reactor. We took it to the premiere at the Pacific Science Center (because we could).
We still want to make the coils thicker, and need to do something about the posts snapping off, but we're quite happy with it! (The hoses stick out a lot on the bottom, so it's hard to move it without breaking them.)
Another photo with the droids at the Pacific Science Center.
Re: Kresty's Dagobah Fusion Generator / Reactor / Furnace - whatever you want to call
Thanks all! Lara did a great job painting, and I'm really loving that hammered metal spray paint as a starting point for things like this.
Working on cleaning up the wiki page with better (and more accurate) instructions (not done yet) for others to follow - it's pretty straightforward.
Thanks all! Lara did a great job painting, and I'm really loving that hammered metal spray paint as a starting point for things like this.
Working on cleaning up the wiki page with better (and more accurate) instructions (not done yet) for others to follow - it's pretty straightforward.
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