How to make a Gort costume

Step 9 Mounting Gort's Death Ray

Now that you have a working death ray, you need to mount it in the helmet. My approach used a sacrificial coat hanger. Snip out a section of the coat hanger (pliers) and bend it to roughly match the curvature of the inside of the face mask. Attach the glow stick tube with clear tape to the coat hanger. The tape helps diffuse the light more.

Choose the height you want the light bar to appear behind your face shield. Push the coat hanger ends between the helmet and liner on both sides. You can probably also push it into the liner padding directly but I didn't try that. I added rolled up paper wedges above and below the ends to reduce chances of it moving up or down.

Add a 9 volt battery wiring connector to the top of the battery. Choose where you want the 9 volt battery bearing in mind how it relates to where the wires from the light bar are going to be. You want to reduce wiring lengths. Then cut a recess in the helmet liner so that the battery fits tightly. Wedge it in.