Luke ANH Conversion

[Jedi-Loreen]

You're welcome. I'm glad I could remember that I've seen something about this in a post before.

[galen marek]

as am I. I had to order 10 from this UK site i found because of minimum dilivery costs , so if any UK saber builders need one drop me a PM.

[Jedi-Loreen]

You ordered copper end caps? You could have just gone to a hardware, or plumbing and bought one off the shelf (or 2, in case you messed one up).

[galen marek]

meh, i couldnt be asked to take a bus alll the way to the other side of town just to get a copper end cap, and i checked the stock, the hardware stores here have suprisingly little, no copper pipe caps, they stock bonzai plants though, which is...good.

[galen marek]

j-lo, is the LED meant to sit on the top of the copper cap, or inside it? because mines fits on top, and now i'm going to find a way to secure it, any suggestions?

[FenderBender]

I always mount them INSIDE the cap. Drill two holes for wire, and use cool tape or thermal grease to go between the LED and cap. I also put some hot glue around the wires where they exit the cap to hold the LED in and help protect the wires. Put the optics holder and lens together and put it inside the cap on top of the LED, then dab some hot glue around the edge to hold the optics in. There, done.

[Jedi-Loreen]

Thanks for posting Fender, since it was your older post I was quoting.

[galen marek]

ah, thats what i thought you had to do. mines is 3/4" OD for some reason and the LED doesn't go in, it just sits on top, but i guess that should do.
EDIT: I't works well just super glued to the top, finished my conversion, making me the youngest person ever to complete a lightsaber conversion (?)

[Marco]

doesn´t the anakin look better than the luke? Shouldn´t the luke look like the anakin since lukes saber is supposed to be anakins?

[galen marek]

no, the anakin should look like the luke, episode 4 came before episode 3. obi wan probably made modifications or something, i dunno take it up with GL