Custom Lightsaber Tool (Hex Wrench)

[darth_chasm]

I was messing around with some scrap materials and got the idea to create a custom blade retention screw tool. Its just some telescoping hobby tube, a knurled thumb nut and of course, a snippet of a hex wrench.

Its such a goofy little thing but I got really excited about for some reason haha

[Greenie]

Goofy? No, creative! That brain is always ticking darth_chasm, I like it. So what's next?, attaching it to and making it look like part of a saber

[darth_chasm]

Goofy? No, creative! That brain is always ticking darth_chasm, I like it. So what's next?, attaching it to and making it look like part of a saber

Hahah, that thought did cross my mind. Hmmm, next build maybe?

[MikeC13]

That is nice. Good use of "scrap" parts.

I'm discovering that a retention screw made to look pretty does not deliver sufficient torque to do its job properly, and have been thinking of how to possibly stow a hex key in a hilt.

I see in my mind a similar thing but with a hinge incorporated into the shaft, so it can fold to a "L" shape to use, and fold flat to either slide into a port or sit in a slot outside. If fabricated out of steel it could be held in place by a couple rare earth magnets.

(Once again I'm kicking myself for not learning CAD when I had the chance years ago. Space is such a premium inside a hilt, it would be nice to see how things fit w/o actual trial and error fitting of real parts. Not to mention being able to 3D print in metal now...)

[darth_chasm]

I can't remember who, but recently someone hid it in their pommel.

One way I was thinking was maybe as a greeble screw. Shorter obviously, maybe spring loaded so it could automatically shorten? I don't know, I'll have to toy with the idea more.

Mike, you can always use some graph paper and a pencil to lay things out. Then cardboard to make prototype pieces. Old school baby!

123d design by Autodesk is a pretty good low level package that a lot of us use. It's free and pretty easy to learn.

[Mineral]

I've been playing with TinkerCAD
It's not professional grade, but for someone who has not taken the time to learn a real CAD, you can make (or trial) some pretty involved, detailed, and accurate stuff.

[Greenie]

I can't remember who, but recently someone hid it in their pommel.

It was Drawcut

[Drawcut]

It was Drawcut

This was the thread: http://forums.thecustomsabershop.com...Build-Complete

[FenixFire]

Just made one last weekend to mount the blaster chamber to the front of Lil-Dmans saber blaster. Though mine was more utilitarian...just an Allen wrench cut off and inserted into a drill extender. Nice work on yours.

[darth_chasm]

Had a bunch of scrap left over from the last build so I decided to make some more tools.

Here's another hex wrench, a scriber, and phillips and flat head precision screw drivers.