I just wanted to post a quick update on this saber.
The good news is that I have the proper Schrader valve adapters, and won't have to use the one I hacked. It wasn't bad, but the proper one is better.
The bad news is that when I was cutting out the windows in the emitter shroud, my dremmel decided to jump out of the groove I was cutting, and do a little dance across the face of the shroud.
I wasn't planning to go to the expense right now of getting the ring made for the end of the emitter, but I guess I'm going to have to now. I figure that if I file the gouge out to make it look like an intentional groove, and do the same to the other two vanes, then slide a ring up almost to those grooves, it might look OK.
The other option is to take this saber in a different direction. I have some brass tubing of the same diameter as the aluminum. I also have some copper that will fit where the black grips are. I could make the same basic design, but have it be a sort of Steampunk-Obi saber. I don't know. Maybe that wouldn't be so great.
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