Tom’s ROTJ Luke Yuma Stunt Lightsaber

tom did you ever find a tri-ring for this? i am having a hell of a time trying to find tri-rings. and if i do find them you need to purchase 2500 of them at a whack....
 
Wow I’m glad I’m not the only one with this tri-ring problem. Amazon has some, they come in a set of 4, but I think they are too thick...

I did some work for a guy who owns a rope factory (they actually supplied the rope for pirates of the Caribbean 1-2-3) they have all kinds of clips and fasteners for mountain climbing, I’m riding my bike out there tomorrow to see what they got I’ll report back


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I have an update! halliwax invented an adapter. That’s right, the Yuma shot, with the stunt blade that has a little thick spot above the nipple... may be an adapter.

he lathed two diameters, the Internal diameter of the nipple and one slightly larger than the nipple. He then bored out the larger section to fit a (I think) 5/8” blade. It’s copper pipe and he lathed a little cylinder of aluminum to slide in the base for extra support. I started by superglueing this chunk inside, flush with the end.

i then drilled and tapped 6/32 set screws. They’re tiny, maybe 1/8” long, but they look shorter. I drilled and tapped with the adapter empty so I could twist the tap through. Granted, I screwed up hole #2, so I decided to make it a triangular set-up instead of two set screws. I then took a dremel ball cutting bit and made dimples for each set screw, and a gouge for the lightsabers nipple screw. A gouge because with one dimple the adapter was tilting up and out of the nipple! This larger cut out prevents it from going up or down.

before sticking the blade in, I squished JB quick weld into the adapter, and hammered it onto the end of the blade. Some JB squished out the incorrect extra hole and filled it.

took a metal file and sandpaper and ground it flush. Also sanded the surface of the blade.
 

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Damn tom!! That came out great!!! I like the tri angle setup, that thing isn’t going to budget at all now!!


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When you guys can create such an elaborate stunt-rod ... a mere tri-ring would be no trouble at all to bend from 2.5 mm wire ... especially when it doesn't have to be completely symmetric or evenly angled in this wonky STAR WARS universe :wacko

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I nay do just that! The tape has been applied as well, its a littke sloppy around the socket but i had to slit and overlap the tape to get it to be flat. I may redo that section. In order to help the tape stck i did it perpendicularly to last time. 13-14 strips wrapped like a column, since the tape glue had stength that way. It tends to peel back when not in its original roll orientation. What do you guys think?
 

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It's a little scratched up, but I have a tri-ring on here now. It's an "antique" color, because I wanted the darker look without the rust. I had to drill out the original hole by an extra mm, and that was such an experience. Eyeballing the drill bit against the face of the cube, and sliding it underneath was nerve wracking! the corners area bit scratched, I got excited and forgot to wrap my pliers.
 

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here's another picture or two from today I found. I didn't work at home so in packing everything up for the car ride home (recent snowstorm here) I kinda forgot
 

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Guys, inspired by Anakin Starkillers design, I wanted to re-do my Yuma lever, at least to make it a more accurate size. I tried this by hand and the amount of cutting discs I used... the amount of hand filling and grinding, was a lot!

I didnt use a Jig Saw because of how small it is, and tried to guesstimate using that one blurry picture and Dan's model.

Used some square aluminum stock about this size and sliced it up! It is more parallel than it looks, metal files leave lots of facets that confuse light in pictures

Two skinny pieces of threaded rod act as glue pins.
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And I MADE MY FIRST BLANK HOLE.
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The original lever had a piece of 1/4 20 rod in there, so I drilled it out and used a piece of round bar, lathed in a drill press, to slide in there. Really, I got it very close and used a Vice to crush it into place. Dremel and hand file and voila!
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Glue is curing, will post finished pic soon
 
Thank you sir! Here it is after clamping and glue. The pins I made raised the end of the lever by... I measured it... .20 mm. One end is 3.7mm and the other is 3.9 mm

maybe I should relax haha

anyway, it’s my third, I drilled right through the first replacement I made. It’s okay, I learned sizing a compared to the box and made one even smaller.
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it always looked to me that the lever in the cord wrap shot was almost flush with the rails, thought they were one piece for a moment. I did round my corner because Dan did, even though that one photo looks to be a right angle.... it’s blurry though
 
It is, and I put a filter on the photo using my girlfriend's phone. Much more like it, in my opinion.
 

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