How do you secure your soundboard?

[GunbladeZero]

I've noticed that when I fool around with my saber it'll suddenly turn off completely before turning back on again straight away which got me to thinking; my soundboard is hitting the hilt a bit hard causing it to switch off from the shock. So I thought about how to secure my soundboard so when it touches the hilt, it won't turn off.

I was wondering if any of you have some tips or tricks that could help? I was thinking of wrapping the board in electrical tape but I'd rather get a second opinion first.

Oh and I'm using a petit crouton soundboard

[Darth Odious]

Your soundboard isn't just floating around in your hilt is it?

You should never leave any board just kinda floating around in there, even if it's a cheapo hasbro board. One of the most common ways is to make a chassis out of pvc pipe, there are several threads here about various ways to secure parts.

If your parts are in a chassis already and are touching the inner walls, I'd break out a hot glue gun. If you don't plan on using the soundboard for anything else than this saber, star thermal pads found in the store can make a handy way to secure a board and not have it move.

[GunbladeZero]

Err yeah it is just floating in my hilt. Last week when I put in a few upgrades I moved the wires away to another area to free up the area around my board. So this thermal tape, do you mean to wrap around the whole board?

[Darth Odious]

No. You never, ever, ever, ever, just leave a board floating (Chris Tucker's voice), you can damage it.

Cut at least a piece of PVC pipe to fit inside of the saber, cut a space in the piece big enough for the PC, so you can attach the board to something, you don't want it floating around at all.

Try reading this: http://www.plecterlabs.com/catalog/a...articles_id=19

And this

http://forums.thecustomsabershop.com...adle-Sled-Idea

http://forums.thecustomsabershop.com...C-sled-chassis...

[PaPa_FoZzY]

I'm using an economy board in my mhs and made a sleeve from 3/4 inch PVC pipe that fit's nicely into my choke with some tape on either end of the PVC to keep the sound card from sliding down.