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Step 11Lets wrap this up!
By now you're probably thinking something along the lines of,
"Golly gee this sure is radical, but my batteries keep popping out and whenever I open my wallet, my life savings go a flyin every which n way!"
Well, something like that.
But have no fear! Elastic is here! With his good buddy Velcro! Say hello Velcro! *arf* Good boy!
First we'll start with those LEDs. If you skipped over the LEDs, no worries, you'll still need this, which is why I included it in this step, so you won't have to go back and read pointless drivel.
Take your other piece of right angled plexiglass and cut it down till it's a centimeter extending both ways from the corner. The length of this piece should be around three or four inches, but you can make do with just two inches.
On your backplate stand up the plexiglass piece over the wires that make up the circuit of LEDs on the backplate. The top of your plexiglass should not come above the gray wall that the LEDs are glued to. (Not the support piece that kept the LEDs in line and together) So dremel it down a little at a time until it fits just right.
Before you glue it in, get your dummy card and put it in the center then push it against the top left corner of the wall that makes up the usb key wall. If it fits with the plexiglass piece in place you're good. If not, you're going to have to bring in the other side of the plexiglass piece until that side is short enough.
Your plexiglass piece is the right size when your dummy card fits perfectly with at least a card WIDTH of a card space between the dummy card and the plexiglass, When you have this, then glue your plexiglass into position. If you're not sure, use some double sided tape to hold it in place then close the wallet.
Take your elastic and glue 1/4 of an inch of the material on the backplate 'floor' below the hinge and somewhere between the springs. Use something like your exacto blade tip to gently press it down into the glue until it sets.
Helpful hint! Most elastic bands are made up of nylon or polyester! After cutting your elastic bands, take a lighter and run it over the newly cut portion. This will melt all the frays together and prevent any unraveling!
When your glue is dry, take all of your cards that you are going to have in your wallet and set them in with the elastic band going over them. Cut off the excess of the elastic that goes past your plexiglass circuit shield, cauterize the end, then sew on the fuzzy side of a velcro patch to the end that is as wide as the elastic itself but no longer than a half inch.
Take the rough side of the velcro and place it directly in the position that the elastic band will stretch to. if you're having trouble, use a pen or exacto to mark the area. Glue it onto the top of the plexiglass. When it dries your cards will stay in and not fly out! Hoo Rah!
You'll probably notice that it's a little hard to get your cards out, especially the bottom ones.
Take your second card sleeve and slice off the edges with your exacto blade, you only need one half of this sleeve. I used the clear part. Mark a horizontal line across the area where your cards lie and then roughen up one inch of one side of your card (one of the short ends, don't roughen it up lengthways). Spread glue over this roughened part then stick it on the baseplate floor with the edge of the sleeve along the line you marked. Let this dry. Now you have a pull tab to easily extricate all of your cards. Set your cards over this then fold it over the top of your cards then strap your velcro elastic combo in place.
We're going to do essentially the same with the batteries, except with no velcro or card sleeve.
On the innermost battery area place one end of another elastic band in the center. Mark the area, then glue the area and set the band end into it. Keep pressing it down with something until it sets.
After it's dry, place a battery into the inner most battery area (where you just glued elastic at) and pull the elastic band over it and over the edge and down the outside wall. Give it just a BIT of tension then cut the elastic where the wall and floor meet. (Use the pictures if you're confused.) Cauterize the end then spread glue all over the inner part of the wall that lines up with the battery elastic band and stick the edge of that cauterized elastic band into the inner edge where the wall and floor meet and press the rest against the wall. You'll need to hold it there with your fingers or exacto blade. Or you could wrap the battery in tape and press it against the elastic band end against the wall. I couldn't do that since I had a slightly different setup. I'm telling you the better ways. Learn from my mistakes! With this method we add just enough tension to the elastic to keep the batteries in but have the ability to stretch it enough to swap out batteries.
After that glue is set, nothing will fly out anymore! For added show get some hotglue and shoot it into the pocket created by the second plexiglass corner and the LEDs and over the extending wires but do not put any in the switch section!
Just one more step!
"Golly gee this sure is radical, but my batteries keep popping out and whenever I open my wallet, my life savings go a flyin every which n way!"
Well, something like that.
But have no fear! Elastic is here! With his good buddy Velcro! Say hello Velcro! *arf* Good boy!
First we'll start with those LEDs. If you skipped over the LEDs, no worries, you'll still need this, which is why I included it in this step, so you won't have to go back and read pointless drivel.
Take your other piece of right angled plexiglass and cut it down till it's a centimeter extending both ways from the corner. The length of this piece should be around three or four inches, but you can make do with just two inches.
On your backplate stand up the plexiglass piece over the wires that make up the circuit of LEDs on the backplate. The top of your plexiglass should not come above the gray wall that the LEDs are glued to. (Not the support piece that kept the LEDs in line and together) So dremel it down a little at a time until it fits just right.
Before you glue it in, get your dummy card and put it in the center then push it against the top left corner of the wall that makes up the usb key wall. If it fits with the plexiglass piece in place you're good. If not, you're going to have to bring in the other side of the plexiglass piece until that side is short enough.
Your plexiglass piece is the right size when your dummy card fits perfectly with at least a card WIDTH of a card space between the dummy card and the plexiglass, When you have this, then glue your plexiglass into position. If you're not sure, use some double sided tape to hold it in place then close the wallet.
Take your elastic and glue 1/4 of an inch of the material on the backplate 'floor' below the hinge and somewhere between the springs. Use something like your exacto blade tip to gently press it down into the glue until it sets.
Helpful hint! Most elastic bands are made up of nylon or polyester! After cutting your elastic bands, take a lighter and run it over the newly cut portion. This will melt all the frays together and prevent any unraveling!
When your glue is dry, take all of your cards that you are going to have in your wallet and set them in with the elastic band going over them. Cut off the excess of the elastic that goes past your plexiglass circuit shield, cauterize the end, then sew on the fuzzy side of a velcro patch to the end that is as wide as the elastic itself but no longer than a half inch.
Take the rough side of the velcro and place it directly in the position that the elastic band will stretch to. if you're having trouble, use a pen or exacto to mark the area. Glue it onto the top of the plexiglass. When it dries your cards will stay in and not fly out! Hoo Rah!
You'll probably notice that it's a little hard to get your cards out, especially the bottom ones.
Take your second card sleeve and slice off the edges with your exacto blade, you only need one half of this sleeve. I used the clear part. Mark a horizontal line across the area where your cards lie and then roughen up one inch of one side of your card (one of the short ends, don't roughen it up lengthways). Spread glue over this roughened part then stick it on the baseplate floor with the edge of the sleeve along the line you marked. Let this dry. Now you have a pull tab to easily extricate all of your cards. Set your cards over this then fold it over the top of your cards then strap your velcro elastic combo in place.
We're going to do essentially the same with the batteries, except with no velcro or card sleeve.
On the innermost battery area place one end of another elastic band in the center. Mark the area, then glue the area and set the band end into it. Keep pressing it down with something until it sets.
After it's dry, place a battery into the inner most battery area (where you just glued elastic at) and pull the elastic band over it and over the edge and down the outside wall. Give it just a BIT of tension then cut the elastic where the wall and floor meet. (Use the pictures if you're confused.) Cauterize the end then spread glue all over the inner part of the wall that lines up with the battery elastic band and stick the edge of that cauterized elastic band into the inner edge where the wall and floor meet and press the rest against the wall. You'll need to hold it there with your fingers or exacto blade. Or you could wrap the battery in tape and press it against the elastic band end against the wall. I couldn't do that since I had a slightly different setup. I'm telling you the better ways. Learn from my mistakes! With this method we add just enough tension to the elastic to keep the batteries in but have the ability to stretch it enough to swap out batteries.
After that glue is set, nothing will fly out anymore! For added show get some hotglue and shoot it into the pocket created by the second plexiglass corner and the LEDs and over the extending wires but do not put any in the switch section!
Just one more step!
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