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Step 3The Inner Tubes
1: First, if there is rust on your metal tubes, sand it off. They need to be smooth. If there is rust on the inside, like I had, wrap sandpaper around a stave and move it back and forth through the tube. what you can't see on this picture, is that this piece of tube was already sewed off, I took it a little wide because the exact length will be sewed later on.
2: these are the two smallest tubes. The second-but-smallest already has an incision, where nails fit in.
3: Drill holes in the smallest tube, all spaces between them equal, and on a straight line. The space between them will be the length of the rings aswell; 1,5 cm for me.
4: So now the holes and the incision can overlap.
5: Look how long the nails should be. they should go from the smallest rube to the third tube, and not touch the 4th tube. For me that was 0,7cm.
6: Cut them off on the length we just measured.
7: Hold the smallest tube so, that the holes are on bottom. Now get the nails in the holes, from the inside! So the head of the nails should be inside of the tube. This is a nasty job, you can use scissors or something as a help.
8: Lie solderin the bottom of the pipe, so on the nail heads.
9: Now melt the solder. I did it with a flaming solder iron, but it's no problem if you don't have that, because you can also do it in the oven. Perhaps that's even better because the flame made the inside of my tube charcoaly. If you do it in the oven, just place the tube on both sides on something and set the oven above the melting point of solder, I think 200 degrees Celcius will do for most types of solder. Don't forget to brush some sulphur stuff on the nails! The solder should also fill the close the holes with the nails fully.
10: The third tube should also get an incision, make this incision a little wider than the first one, because it will be the inner part of the rings. If this incision is real small, the one trying to open the cryptex needs to align the rings extremely straight, that it might even not open when the correct password is there, because some rings are just a little offset.
11: This is when I cut the nails off, but you probably already did that.
2: these are the two smallest tubes. The second-but-smallest already has an incision, where nails fit in.
3: Drill holes in the smallest tube, all spaces between them equal, and on a straight line. The space between them will be the length of the rings aswell; 1,5 cm for me.
4: So now the holes and the incision can overlap.
5: Look how long the nails should be. they should go from the smallest rube to the third tube, and not touch the 4th tube. For me that was 0,7cm.
6: Cut them off on the length we just measured.
7: Hold the smallest tube so, that the holes are on bottom. Now get the nails in the holes, from the inside! So the head of the nails should be inside of the tube. This is a nasty job, you can use scissors or something as a help.
8: Lie solderin the bottom of the pipe, so on the nail heads.
9: Now melt the solder. I did it with a flaming solder iron, but it's no problem if you don't have that, because you can also do it in the oven. Perhaps that's even better because the flame made the inside of my tube charcoaly. If you do it in the oven, just place the tube on both sides on something and set the oven above the melting point of solder, I think 200 degrees Celcius will do for most types of solder. Don't forget to brush some sulphur stuff on the nails! The solder should also fill the close the holes with the nails fully.
10: The third tube should also get an incision, make this incision a little wider than the first one, because it will be the inner part of the rings. If this incision is real small, the one trying to open the cryptex needs to align the rings extremely straight, that it might even not open when the correct password is there, because some rings are just a little offset.
11: This is when I cut the nails off, but you probably already did that.
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Jul 9, 2009. 6:29 PM
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