I promised pictures so here they are:
I started saber building with the Harbor Freight flashlight:
and made this saber with a 1" blade from Ultrasabers.
The glass eye was from a graflex, and the switch was hidden beneith a hole on one side. The LED from the flashlight was a white Lux III I think. Looks blue in this pic but its actually silver.
I decided to add sound to this, and more batteries because it was running on watch batteries which drained quick. I had to modify the hilt to make it longer to take the extra stuff.
Heres the guts, with the modified 4xAAA battery holder to fit in the 1.1" flashlight hilt.
The switch will go under the glass eye, I switched LEDs with another flashlight, which is a Cree that is much brighter.
I originally wanted to use a speaker from a local shop, but when I checked it, I found out it was not working. I had the speaker from TCSS which was 1.1" and I tried to fit it in the hilt and found it was .1" too big.
So I got out my dremmel and tried to sand it down.
Word of advice. Don't do this with a dremmel at high speed. I must have damaged something and the speaker no longer works.
So I ordered a smaller speaker from Mouser and am waiting for it to come in the mail.
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