Hey folks, just wanted to demo my new (re) build:
Hilt: Graflex 2.0
- Graflex Shop button
- Wannawanga clamp card/beer tab
- KR Sabers screws and brass contacts
- 89Sabers short bunny ears and printed clamp card
- ground down glass eye thumbscrew
Chassis: Arms of Illum Econo chassis
Clamp Activation: dual button holder from Slytools
Electronics:
- Proffieboard 1.5
- Solo's Hold 10A 18650 battery, JST wired
- dual switches, activation and aux
- GX 16 aviation 4-pin connectors for blade/hilt
- 22AWG silicone wire for power and blade, 28 AWG for all other connections
- 2.1mm Switchcraft RC port
- Generic eBay 28mm 4 ohm 3W speaker
- DarthRyo rotating kill-key
Blade:
- 7/8 clear w round tip (drilled out)
- hard diffuser tube from TCSS
- 1/32 packing foam (sold as packing sheets for moving plates)
- Clear cellophane wrap (enough to keep the strips stable in the blade so they don't bounce about.
- 470 ohm resistor on the data line
This hilt began life as a scratch/dent 2.0 kit from TCSS, installed with a B/B/W Tri-Cree and a Hasbro blade builders soundboard. Before long, that wasn't nearly enough, so it was rebuilt with a NBv4, then rebuilt again with Neopixels and finally rebuilt to support the brand new Proffieboard, which is fantastic. Along the way, I nickel and dime myself to death on mods to improve the 2.0 kit, had I done this from scratch I'd probably look at the 89Sabers kit or the stainless steel MPS hilt. For this configuration, I selected the Arms of Illum chassis because it has a super simple design and it made my install very easy. For the speaker, I found a couple of cheap listings for 28mm 4ohm 3W speakers and rolled the dice. They're pretty good, probably on par with the TCSS high-bass speaker but they seem to be able to sustain a bit more volume thanks to the extra watt.
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Topic: Rebuild: Graflex 2.0 with Proffieboard (Read 1364 times)