This was my entry in the JSSDC Graflex Challenge:
"FISHBONE"Specs (nose to tail):
- LED string (red Makoto Tsai LEDs)
- Vintage Graflex head (no red button or glass eye window, just came as the head)
- TGS blade holder (no heatsink)
- 8-32 threaded rods
- 6mm ID aluminium tubing (from old airsoft barrels)
- 1 1/2" x 1/8" clear acrylic disks
- 4.8mm 120-degree LEDs (6)
- Ancient Parks clamp (had it since '98 )
- Brass screws
- Tin switch shaft w/brass head
- MR sound board
- Blank PCB (for routing of wires)
- Judco Low-profile latching switch
- 4.3 miles of 28g ribbon wire
- 2 CR123 (6v) Lithium batteries
- Good speaker... not really needed...
Super flat black camo epoxy paint.
Minor weathering...
Pictures? okay... :dft012:
More detailed pictures:
Center brass knob on control box is activation switch.
Illuminated Pics:
With flash
Without flash
Vids
Progress vids
Guts all laid out - shows routing PCBs and miles of ribbon wire
On the bench "IT'S ALIVE!!!"
eastern57