bk - but wouldn't it have been easier to just go buy another piece of tube? After all the work you put into building it...ah well, maybe the rework will be even better eh?
Darth Midian and ROTSeth, thanks for the positive feedback.
I'm afraid that I had to re-spray the chrome inner tube with silver hammerite paint as the chrome just wouldn't seal properly even after 48 hours. At least the hammerite paint seals so you can handle it without coming off in your hand, but it isn't as shiney as the chrome, more sort of sparkly grey.
I am still fiddling with pieces for the unnamed Jedi stunt saber. About all I know is that it will probably have a green LED. Maybe I'll do some piece placements and post them here, then you can all comment on which combination I should use.
(Later EDIT)
Ok, so here is the basic idea, as listed on the pic, O rings will go on the screw connection in the middle, the section just behind the emitter can be lengthened or shortened to suit (before being built of course). The end cap is a screw end nut with a rounded cap slid over the top of the nut. The idea is to get the rounded cap right up to the flange of the base of the hilt, but be able to unscrew the rounded cap to replace the batteries. The only problem is I would need 2xAA holders in line (which I don't have on hand).
The other option is just to leave off the rounded cap from the nut and just have the nut showing. This is what I did on Destiny, but screwed into a different connector.
The last version has just PVC tube inside the sleeve and the end cap, and the end cap has a screw through it into the pipe for retention. This would allow me to use a 2xAA side by side battery pack which I have on hand.
I want the battery part chunky and heavy to partially balance out the blade, so it can be spun at the thin section of the hilt. Sort of an older power cell from an early age. I want to round off the flat flanges at the connectors at either end of the thick connector at the cell area, and possible cut grooves in the thick connector to replicate the Mara hand grip.
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