Lightsaber for $33 in 33 minutes

Step 5: Connect Handle and Head

This is the hardest part. Slide the pop-up basin drain into the extension tube. You’ll need to feed the slip joint washers into the tube because the fit will be tight. After you get the first one in, press down until the next one is lined up and get that fed in. Be careful to work it so the two tubes aren't crooked to each other. Then get over the thing and push…agin be careful, before you push, to make sure all the rubber is inside the tube or the hilt will be crooked. I found that if I worked the last little bit of the second gasket on the opposite side of that which I worked the last part of the first gasket, it ensured a straight line up of the two tubes. Also, if you are using the plastic pop-up drain, be careful not to break it. I was able to put a fair amount of pressure on it though.

Comments

[yellowpecora]

Hi! I also made one, following your suggestions. Here it is:<a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/alessio.colopardi/LIghtsaber?feat=directlink#"><br />picasaweb.google.it/alessio.colopardi/LIghtsaber</a>

[tehooper]

Looks nice, you found some great disposal gaskets for the grip.   Looks like you went with the expensive pop-up drain, cool shape.

[yellowpecora]

About the popup drain, it's just one found raveling through the leftovers of my recent bathroom refurbishing. About the grip: each "ring" is composed by 4 gaskets, 2 o-rings and 2 semi-conical, mounted symmetrically. Great feel, and thanks to the o-rings they don't move at all.

[tehooper]

In my experience the O-rings were a little loose and tended to slip onthe 1 1/2" pipe extension.   I ended up buying4 disposal gaskets and fitting an O-ring on the inside lip of each one,and spacing them out, with another o-ring in between them.   Ifthey weren't so expensive, I would've ideally gotten 10 gaskets total,and put them on in 5 symmetric sets.

By the way, for the power switch, Radio Shack sells an awesome redbutton that clicks in and out and fits perfectly in the ball stopper onthe side, and it only costs about $2.  I had to glue mine inthough so it fit snugly.

[spike001]

Go to the big yellow box for a wider variety, I built a style from that site and it turned out great! They're a bit more complex though

[powercube]

I made one. but i did mine a little diffrently. like instead of putting the black gaskets around it i put electrical tape. and i wrapped the threads on the pop-up drain basin. and i took the button and bottom part of a broken lightsaber and glued them in there. this is mine

[rio_stud07]

what is the red button this u used.... p.s really nice man!!!

[rjrollins]

sweet

[santi201]

Really nice saber i ever seen p.s. Sell it for 100 bath or more in ebay

[jimmysanders]

yeah, serious, i'm probably the guy who got yours...

[Darto]

That looks sweet Im gonna make like 10

[sole]

So if you sell them all then for $60 you can make a profit of $270

[psuddeth]

As commented in step 3, a third slip joint washer will pretty much assure that the drain and extension tube will be aligned. At first glance, it would seem that a third washer it will make this step 50% harder than it would be with 2 washers (and trust me, as cjanson says, feeding the washes in is tough) but read on... I followed the instructions, including working the washers on opposite sids, but still ended up with the tubes misaligned. I had to take it apart, and try again, this time with three washers. It ended up nice and straight. I would have saved 40% of my labor, had I initially used three washers.

[cooy]

you could sell those to nerds on ebay