can't find PolyC or acrylic tube

[carpio]

Where I live it's near impossible to find a polyC or acrylic tube, what can I use as blade???

[Lord Maul]

Tim ships internationally

Madcow has made blades using golf club tubes (my memory is foggy on these), and a number of people use PEX tubing as well. There's a thread on that, I'll see if I can find it.

EDIT: http://forums.thecustomsabershop.com...ead.php?t=3102

I see that this is in EL blade discussion. If you want to make a EL saber, then both of my above ideas are useless...PolyC is the only blade idea I can think of for a EL based hilt.

[Lord Dottore Matto]

Easiest way to do it would be to have TCSS just ship 4 or 5 to you then you will have plenty for all your sabers!

[Onli-Won Kanomi]

I'd like to add FYI that acrylic is not a good blade choice for any saber that might be used for dueling...it can shatter...so acrylic should only ever be used for display-only blades...therefore following LDM's suggestion of getting TCSS to ship you some polycarbonate tubing would be a much safer choice.

[carpio]

Thank you all for answer, I've been talking to the RMA girls at my work, and searching on TCSS site, the tube price and sheeping are about $30 but the importation costs are about $100, so it become a little expensive.
(bad English, sorry )

[Onli-Won Kanomi]

Oh yeah import duties can be harsh...I wonder if nylon tubes would work with EL...they arent as durable as polyC for hard dueling but might be more available locally to you?

Some smiths have used them successfully for LED sabers but I don't know if they are EL-suitable.

Good Luck.

[Azrael]

carpio since i live in argentina i understand your problem cause i cant get polyc tube either but you can use a polyethylene tube (polietileno) which is a long lasting hard battling tube and its fairly cheap

[Vazan Maceu]

carpio since i live in argentina i understand your problem cause i cant get polyc tube either but you can use a polyethylene tube (polietileno) which is a long lasting hard battling tube and its fairly cheap

Thanks for the idea Azrael, it´s also hard for me to find polycarbonate tube here at my location, so I´ll give a shot at polyethilene and see how it works! Thanks

[carpio]

carpio since i live in argentina i understand your problem cause i cant get polyc tube either but you can use a polyethylene tube (polietileno) which is a long lasting hard battling tube and its fairly cheap

Hola Azrael, gracias por responder, en que tipo de comercios se consiguen estos tubos?

[Azrael]

normalmente los podes encontrar en comercios que venden caños plasticos para industria y hogar, lo unico que te digo es que tengas en cuenta que es un tubo que viene por un metro de largo y lo mas fino que yo pude encontrar es de 1 pulgada exterior, 5/8 interior por lo que lo hace pesado, pero no afecta el paso de luz ya que son translucidos no completamente transparente lo que se iluminan hasta el borde exterior

[normally you can find them in stores that sell plastic tubes for home and industry, just have in mind that its a tube that comes 40´long and the most slim tube that i could find is 1" o.d. and 5/8" i.d. so its quite heavy, but it doesnt affect the passage of light since they are translucid not completly transparent so they glow all the way to the edge.]