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Lightsaber for $33 in 33 minutes

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Insert something red into the ball value on the pop-up basin drain and replace the nut as a button, just use the nut as the on/off button or remove it altogether.

Instead of the disposal gaskets, you could wrap the hilt with leather or cord to give it a multi-medium kind of feel. Or just leave it plain chrome.

Also, as pictured, if you have a spare hard drive or CD ROM drive lying around, you can take out the spindle hub and use it as the emitter on the business end of the sabre.
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Mar 18, 2009. 9:27 AMbobby chambers says:
Is there a way I can fit a blade into it?
May 1, 2009. 10:28 AMnesoth says:
By using a few other parts it's possible to fit a section of pvc or pex tubing as a usable blade.
May 27, 2009. 9:30 AMarhodes18 says:
you could probably use FTC (fluorescent tube cover) which can be bought at home depot as well...
Jun 3, 2009. 5:43 PMbobby chambers says:
Is it sturdy enough for choreographing a fight scene? and what will it look like?
Jun 3, 2009. 7:18 PMarhodes18 says:
well it could be made strong enough, but as long your not too rough it should work ok... they are just long clear tubes so it could either be almost invisible or if you put a light inside it should take that color as long as you have a way to diffuse the light.
Jun 5, 2009. 4:24 PMbobby chambers says:
I could always just use that for dark places to rotoscope the video at the end. Could you possibly send me some instructions step by step on how do fit it? BobbyChambers124@gmail.com
Jun 6, 2009. 5:50 PMarhodes18 says:
i would love to, but i havent personally done it. i was just brain storming. sorry.
Jun 14, 2009. 4:39 PMbobby chambers says:
Well, If you could....
Apr 5, 2009. 4:54 AM38039 says:
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Apr 17, 2009. 9:41 PMAercimete says:
did you try adjusting the field stabilizers? maybe there's a fracture in your crystal?
Apr 16, 2009. 4:28 PMlawizeg says:
it's photoshopped.
Apr 17, 2009. 4:32 AM38039 says:
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Apr 19, 2009. 12:19 AMsuperlukie17 says:
AKA FAKE. It's dubbed in there, there's no light to the saber.
May 1, 2009. 9:53 AMtj the gnome says:
did you figure that out all on your own? wow
May 28, 2009. 9:42 AMReCreate says:
win
May 29, 2009. 10:02 AMJKibs95 says:
Epic Win
May 29, 2009. 12:55 PMReCreate says:
Laugh out loud
Apr 18, 2009. 4:09 PMApplejacks says:
Just give up.
Apr 22, 2008. 11:05 AMtheman88 says:
Is there a way to make a clip or something so you don't have to lug it around?
Mar 15, 2009. 9:36 PMNYYscorpio says:
universal belt clip from belkin should fit, the big yellow box (the other lightsaber building site) suggested it
Dec 3, 2008. 1:08 PMJaraldo says:
I need to make something shiny, FREE and my own!
Dec 16, 2008. 4:04 PMstartrekluver says:
Sweet, with a little added variety this will be perfect for the vid im gonna create. Oh, im creating a lightsaber battle with effects and all, its gonna be fun! Gonna get some volunteers from my school and use my adobe master collection CS3 extended version to create bad @$$ effects. This is very awesome dude, especially the emitter diode!

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