Jay-gon's Brass/MHS Saber (MR sound/Lux III)

[Jay-gon Jinn]

I'm planning to put together a polished brass sinktube and MHS saber, and this is what I've got so far:







I found these already polished brass extensions at a home improvement store called Menard's. At the time they were on sale for $3.50 each, so I picked up a couple. I thought they'd make it easy to install sound by using the slip jointed end end as a pommel with a strainer added for a grille. Now to just get the rest of the parts from the store....

[Barmic Rin]

Keep us posted on that one!
God, I wish hardware stores over here were anywhere near as good as the ones you guys have!

[Hasid Lafre]

Yeah harware stores here a really good and you can find alot ofgood stuff at minards for harware stuff jay.

Good luck and remember lots of pics.

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Well I finally got some time to work on this again after ordering some more parts. It's looking pretty good so far!

Pics coming later tonight!

[Hasid Lafre]

[Jay-gon Jinn]

I did the work on this and forgot to take pics while working and went back tonight and got a few, so some of the descriptions won't match the pics. (i.e.:the grip rings are already on the brass section in the pics for drilling the tube for the MHS adapter pics.)


Okay, I started out by fitting the MHS sinktube adapter. I measured out the fist hole on the adapter, and marked it on the brass tube with a sharpie marker. I drilled the first hole in the tube by itself with my cordless drill. I used a 3/16th drill bit making the hole larger than the hole in the MHS adapter to make sure I'll have some flexibility in fitting the parts. I then took it to the drill press and set it up! I inserted the adapter into the brass tube and made sure the drill bit lined up with the opposite hole in the adapter and drilled it:

Next, I lined it up to drill a third hole equally spaced (well, I eyeballed it and it turned out pretty good!) for a third mounting screw, and drilled it straight through to the other side. That hole became the pilot hole for the switch hole. I changed to a 3/8" bit and drilled it:

[Jay-gon Jinn]

After I drilled all the holes and made sure everything fit okay, I decided to put the grip ring marks on the brass tube. I used my tubing cutter to do it:

I highly recommend practicing on scrap tubes first, to make sure you get it right. I used two pieces of chrome pipe to paractice on, and even then, I still had a problem getting it to make the ends meet:

I made sure I started out on the "bottom" of the saber, so those mis-matched lines aren't really all that visible.


I also drilled and tapped it for the covertech wheel.

[Jay-gon Jinn]

So this is where I'm at now:


I have blade holder #1 and the v-grooved ribbed section. I still have plenty to do, as I'm not finished with some of the parts and I don't have the electronics figured out yet. I have a few led's with quick-change set-ups already made up, so I could go with a red, green or blue lux III led.

[Jay-gon Jinn]

So I went to my local Menard's today and picked up a metal cutting blade for my compound miter saw:

Can anyone guess where this is heading?

[Jay-gon Jinn]

I clamped it all down and cut it:

This was very easy to do, and it made a perfect 45 deg. cut in the tube. Next, I de-burred it with my rotary tool and a sanding drum:

(I took this as an illustration shot, when I actually de-burred it, it was clamped in the vise on my drill press. Always be sure to clamp down a part before working on it!)