I still need to drill the shroud and the emitter for mounting screws, and the blade thumbscrew, but here's a good view of how it should look:
I still need to drill the shroud and the emitter for mounting screws, and the blade thumbscrew, but here's a good view of how it should look:
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I could swear I've been up the plumbing aisle dozens of times, but mine doesn't have anything nearly that cool. The last I tried sanding a chrome tube to brass I gave up... no patience for what was shaping up to be a weeks worth of sanding to get to the shine I wanted.
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How funny Jay... that sink tube pipe and the little filter tray is *exactly* the kind of thing I've used for speaker ports and pommels for the Flange sabers.
Great work. This is exactly the kind of stuff I was hoping to do, only I don't have a dremel or anything super fancy! Glad you do though!!!!
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where can one find longer brass sink tubes? I have looked at menards, lowes, homedepot. the longest I found was 6". And sanding down a chrome one, I'm with X on that one.
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I wish I knew where to get longer brass tubes, too. I got these little sink drain tailpieces at Menard's. I should've bought more than two, though, since they were on sale at the time for $3.50. I messed up while drilling the shroud for the mounting screws, and would like to make another. Pics of that coming shortly.
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Now that I think about it, I do recall seeing a polished brass 1.25 kit that had a p-trap and everything in it that about $15, too. I think it had a longer tube in that. Next time I'm there, I'll look and see if they have the same kit in 1.5".
I also put a scoring line on the shroud, and tried turning the pipe towards me, instead of away from me like last time, and it lined right up! A perfectly straight line all the way around!
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http://www.farm-home.com/ldr/JB15901309.htm
They make them apparently... hmmm, I'll still keep looking to find the flanged types we use.
EDIT: They list tailpieces too but it only shows and adds 6" lengths.
ANother! http://www.farm-home.com/ldr/JB15901242.htm more usable stuff out of that, but it's expensive.
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FKF3CK/...ectronicssh-20
Other than the black and white picture that seems to be a 12" one. They seem to make a distinction on brass and chrome plated brass though.
EDIT: Oh this is ticking me off. The product description says chromed... but the company makes the distinction and it matches the number...
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Those would be great if they came in polished brass!
In the meantime, I did some drilling on the drill press:
I put the first of what turned out to be many holes in the blade holder. This went all the way through to put a hole directly opposite:
It of course didn't line up with the screws in the hilt tube, so I put some more holes in it and the brass shroud at the same time:
In the above pic, I assembled the hilt to try and make the thumbscrew hole line up with the switch. I drilled twice, and still didn't get it right. I wanted to get the hole as close to the edge of the thickest part of the blade holder as I could, and missed it by about 1/4 of an inch.
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In case you're wondering, I do have the heatsink installed in all those pics of me drilling holes. I'm still not sure why they didn't line up when I was originally done with it....but it's fixed now:
The scribed line came out perfect this time. I just need to figure out what to do about this:
I've got two holes for the thumbscrew in the brass shroud, and neither of them are in line with the switch on the hilt. I have thought about making a plate out of a piece of chromed tubing to cover those up with and then drill my thumbscrew hole through that also.
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