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  1. jin starkiller
    Greetings " Master Mills" ....congrats on becoming a Master of Science in Physics
  2. Boj-Vaati Mau
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    Listening opens the door to wisdom, my son. Try that one on your students to see if it flies....
  3. Boj-Vaati Mau
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    You're most welcome, sir! I like to help people out when I can and if they'll listen.
  4. Boj-Vaati Mau
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    I just read through your chat with null & agree with all he said about blade length. I'd posted similar awhile back, something along the lines of Saber Length Guidelines, with regards to sword length in Iaido. Heed well our words, you should, unless striking the ground you like! ; )
  5. Boj-Vaati Mau
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    Might want to look at this video too, by Erv of the PC-L
    http://www.plecterlabs.com/catalog/a...articles_id=30
  6. Boj-Vaati Mau
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    Via Jedi-Loreen:
    You have to be careful with filing soldering iron tips though. If you get down the copper, any rosin in your solder will start eating at it.
    I didn't know that, something to keep in mind...
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PVC Rahm Kota Pt. II

by captain_mills on 09-21-2012 at 09:39 PM
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So, I'm hoping I can get some help here, but since no one has seen my first blog post (or at least commented on it) I may have to post this into the Forums...

Anyway I am including a link to the Mace Windu board I am using in this saber. It has a tactile switch spot on the board and I can't figure out how to wire this switch to a momentary switch.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Updated 09-23-2012 at 09:13 PM by captain_mills

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PVC Rahm Kota

by captain_mills on 09-18-2012 at 08:47 PM
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I decided to put together a Rahm Kota saber at a cheap cost. It'll be a variant. Somewhere between the one Rahm Kota had and what it became when Galen Marek used it... I'm using the one from the 'net I found as inspiration. It's made of 1" PVC for the main body, with an endcap and a coupling. The blade holder is also 1" pvc with a 3/4" grey PVC lathe-turned to fit inside. all the parts are lathed down in my wood lathe except the main body.

The electronics are from

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Updated 09-19-2012 at 09:42 PM by captain_mills

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Crystal Chamber Pt. III

by captain_mills on 02-21-2011 at 10:09 PM
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Ok, so I have an updated chamber that I'm going to put into my brother's Obi-Wan hilt that I posted in an earlier blog post. In part I, I showed off an incomplete version of what is below. This is the finished version, without the wiring, of course. I decided to put the original crystal back in it, and had to adjust it to get it to fit.

I will work on the wiring probably next weekend, since I will be busy the rest of this week (it was nice having Pres. Day off of work). There

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Crystal Chamber Pt. II

by captain_mills on 02-20-2011 at 06:59 PM
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Hello again...

I spent the afternoon custom-making a crystal for the chamber. Took a piece of clear acrylic and put it to the grinding wheel. There's some "gunk" on the edges that I need to clean off (anyone know how to polish acrylic??). Otherwise, It's about 1 1/2" long and about 1/2" in diameter. It fits nicely into my chamber, and lights up nicely... Still not as bright as I'd like it to be though...

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Crystal Chamber & Saber Interior

by captain_mills on 02-19-2011 at 10:58 PM
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So, today I decided to start work on the interior of my saber. There will have to be some adjustments, as I don't have my MHS saber parts yet, and have no idea exactly what the interior diameter will be on each of the parts. I consider this to be a trial run anyway, and I'm looking for suggestions and comments.

The LED is supposed to be green, but the way I have it wired, it's running off 4AAA's at 1.2V each (4.8V total) and with a 100 ohm resistor, it isn't bright enough to be

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