Cryptex

Step 6 Finishing Touches

Just Put the other end cap on and glue on the acrylic strips. But only glue them onto the 2" PVC pieces that are in the end caps. And there you go, a cryptex!

Comments

[h.bogart]

The coupler is holding the rings in place, right? idk : /

[jeroenenmarloes]

Great project. I used rivets to make the cryptex thougher to crack. In stead of one small stripe of plastic at the end, use rivets under every letter. See the pictures attached.

! the sanding of the tube is done best with an electric grinding wheel.

[LiMiT-L3sS]

dude do u hav a instuctabl fr dis its so sick

[jeroenenmarloes]

hey death kid,

unusual nick by the way.... if you follow this instructable then you will end up like mine. All you have to do extra
is use rivets.

[hornbadoing]

 pleas make a video on youtube on how to make a cryptex the way u did

[jeroenenmarloes]

 Dear hornbadoing,

I already made the crypto. So a video is only possible if I rebuild it. I don't have the time right now. Perhaps in the future.

 

[sulis96]

 do you have an instuctables on this of your own ?????? if you do could you E-mail me how to make one your way 

E-mail: [e-mail]

[jeroenenmarloes]

Dear sulis96,

If you follow exactly the instructions in the instructable you have 80% of the result. You need to be alert in step 4: Glue and Cut.

Instead of :"Cut a 2 1/4" x 1/2" piece of PVC, then glue it onto the 1 1/2" PVC tube."
Each "ring" consists of an outer and inner ring. The inner ring is smaller +/- 1/4". This space is enough for the rivet. If you place ring for ring on the cryptex and sign it, draw a line as seen in the firt photo, its jhust a matter of drilling and nailing. 

I hope with this information you have enough for building the cryptex.

[sulis96]

it has thanks again bra ;)

[boston09]

i like it! thanks for the advice

[LiMiT-L3sS]

Ill make one to have my sister and others figure out to come in my room

[ampeyro]

it's good, but do u think is posible to put an acid(or ink) container like it was no the movie(the acid tube was for if someone tryed to broke it)

[Xerillum]

 You could use a small piece of elemental sodium in oil (or another method of creating a flame, this is just the first thing I thought of), and write the message on flash paper. When the sodium is exposed to air, it ignites the flash paper.

[pyra_builder_1337]

i may be you would have to have the sodium /oil in water its reactive to water

[ampeyro]

it's a really good idea, but sodium is difficult to find, maybe a cylinder of permanganate inside another of glycerin and a pendrive inside it

[LiMiT-L3sS]

wat abot  sodium cloride

[papalevies]

Well if breaching the device is in the picture, you could use a tiny hole and a syringe to drain out the acid, or even cut around the wall/lock and take the paper out. Also, low power explosives would be safer than acid.

[Pie Ninja]

You use a mild acid, like vinegar, to wash away the ink.

[ph34rsoldier]

But if you use regular paper than the vinegar will jus wash the ink away and leave the pen/pencils indentaion in the paper. So for vinegar to work you would need to use papyrus which fully dissolves the paper.

[LiMiT-L3sS]

u can laminate it

[instructables12354]

maybe that would work if you used pen ink and painted the words on so when it washed off there would be no indentation?

[ph34rsoldier]

then you would have to be an expert painter because when u paint the paper soaks the moisture and if u put a lighter behind it it will show

[ampeyro]

what i wanted to use is any solvant that solves the ink, or the same ink of the text

[zimmemic25]

if u use the same ink like the text, then someone can pour sand on the paper, and it will collect where the pen did press the paper on time of writing the text.

[Silence]

The acid was contained in a thin glass container and the parchment wrapped around it. if the cryptex was tampered with violently (or dropped) then it risked destroying both the glass container and the parchment as a result. To maybe add pick proofing with that, a mechanism to clamp the glass could be added if the cryptex is pulled apart without setting the rings correctly it would risk crushing it thus spilling the acid.

[Zeratul98]

Actually, Dan Brown needed some more research into this field. The papyrus would last a lot longer than ordinary paper in acid. The best way to do this would be to put a glass vial of ink instead so it blots out the writing.

[papalevies]

Spilling ink onto the writting wouldn't destroy it, since one could always read the original message using an infrared camera.

[Dantex]

in the movie wasn't the paper destroyed but ink it was some special ink that under the acid wanished i don't exactly remember cuz i watched the movie long ago

[zimmemic25]

just use Cl². that will kill the ink, and anyone breathing it

[shabaki]

for the record they said it was vinegar i think that entirely dissolved the papyrus and/or the ink p.s. they didnt have ir cameras when it was made so it probly wasnt a problem

[zimmemic25]

u know that every camera is an IR cam?

[shabaki]

i mean they didnt have ir cams/normal cameras in the time it was supposedly created or da vincis time

[zimmemic25]

i know.

[Silence]

As i recall it was only the ink that would dissolve and smear, the aged papryus might dicintegrate with a dose of vinegar as well... but thats hollywood.

[Puzzle_Man]

you actaully need 8 inches for the 2 inch pvc and you need the dremel toool, because you cant do it without it.

[altrobot]

I made three and I put them inside each other (like russian dolls) I also added a space notch bettween the rings to make not open if even on was wrong The biggest one is made of thing steel on some abs plastic and the smallest one is made out of bronze so with a ir blocker!

[Kirt]

It should be noted that you can solve the combo and open one of these without even looking at it. So as far as secure containers go, (even if it were made of metals) it's as protective as a Tupperware butter tub. Looks like a fun project for kids though.

[JNevins234]

By using "Spacer Rings" in between the code rings you can make it so that all code rings need to be alligned correctly in order to open the box.

[jeffconnelly]

Yeah. I'm going to make one that has a slightly different design - notches like on a bike lock, so that if even one dial is wrong, it won't open. I'm also gonna add a HUGE number of dials : )

[jeffconnelly]

Sorry, Looking at that, my post doesn't make sense. What I meant is that I'm going to put a notch thingy in between every dial, so you can't tell just by feeling which ones are open, which is the flaw that I think Kirt was referring to. With the current design, you can twist the dial that the notch is resting on, find the groove, and then repeat for each notch