Starting my own project... My crystal chassis

[Gabywan]

HI friends,
I am Gabywan (gabriel) and I am of Argentina,
our language is Spanish ... you forget my bad English please :-[
For a few months I read the forum and two days ago I registered. :D
I would like to build my own Crystal chassis  ???, also I am waiting
for my buy of a graflex flash and some elements more to arm the lightsaber ANH.
I have read very much on this in the forum and it has help me to begin.
Thank you very much to all the persons who contribute with information.
I will be updating my advances.
MTFBWY

[Ranek]

Welcome to the forums Gabywan!  ;D  I am looking forward to your updates as I am a big fan of the graflex style hilt.

[Qui-gol Reyah]

Yes, welcome!  From one n00b to another!   ;)

[darth_call]

Welcome to the forums, Hope your project goes well.

Make sure to post pictures once complete.

And if u need any help, or have questions, just ask.

[Lord Dracus]

 Greetings and I bid you welcome to the forums !!! ;D

[LUMINARA UNDULI]

Greetings Gabywan, welcome to the forums.  Y tenga buen dia!

[Gabywan]

Thank you very much for the welcome.
I have found some materials that seem to be useful to realize crystal chassis.
the attached images are of bad quality, I took them with the cellular one because I have given my camera to a friend.

The first image is the design that I have thought for the chassis, it is based on the chassis that I have seen in the forum.
Obviously the principal idea is based of the chassis realized by the Master Yoda.



Basing on the chassis that I want to construct, I have obtained the following materials:

Pipes of bronze of 4mm of external diameter, I could not find bigger not of another material.
the following image indicates the cut, extracted of the rough edge and polished them with sandpaper 3M and metal polisher.





I could find a material so-called polycarbonate, this material is the acrylic one, this one material is easy to work.

With a sandpaper 3M a very good finish is obtained on his surface. In the following image I present it.



I accept proposals and new ideas for those who want to help me in this.

Thank you very much.
Up to the next one.
Ga!
PD1: again ..... excuse my so bad English  ::)
PD2:Thank Allaerra Secura for his information about the photobucket. :D

[LUMINARA UNDULI]

Looking good so far ;)

[Gabywan]

Thanks Allaerra,
now i have found a good paint...
 :-\

[erv]

automotive plastic paint works very well ! welcome to the forums Gabywan, glad I've been able to drive to the right place despite of my reduced time for emailing and such,
que te disfrutes mucho con to lightsaber ! este "chassis" me parece muy bien pensado y commencado !
(yo me paro aqui, tengo problemas con mi espanol, cada palabra que viene de mi cabeza en espanol sale en ingles...  ::) )
Erv'

[Gabywan]

Jajajaajaja ...
Hi Erv'.. thanks you for the welcome Erv!!! and thanks for having recommended this forum ... it is very good.

your Spanish is not bad my friend... I will think that about the automotivate plastic paint..

Gab

[erv]

auto motivate is what you need to work on a saber ;-)
(I couldn't resist, don't feel bad, I'm just tickling)
automotive paint = car paint (just to be clear)

[Gabywan]

jajajaja ... you saw that my English is very bad!!!
I do not take offence, I am grateful for your clarification.
you do not imagine the errors of language that you are going to find .... jajaja

gab




Hi my friends!!!
Finally I Have painted the elements of acrylic of my crystal chassis.
In the following images I show them:

this is the paint


painting


These are the results


Acrylics and pipes


Now I have to fix the pipes (4mm ext.diametro/3mm internal diameter) to the acrylic ones.
Is there anybody who could help me?
Thanks...
I hope

[erv]

you need a tap to make a thread inside the pipe, then use some threaded rod (or cut screw) to make the assembly I suppose (that's how I did it on my first personnal chassis)

[Gabywan]

Hello Erv ' I Understand the idea...
but I do not understand the word tap!!!!
what does it mean 'tap'?
Thank Erv'
Ga