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Step 12Gimme your money! Snap to it!
These last finishing touches are the easiest.
No doubt you're wondering where you can put your cash.
Get your plain money clip. I used something I found on the ground that could very well be a belt clip. And you can too. If you see a beat up cell phone holder lying around, use it. Strip it apart and take out the clip. Or use a one piece clip of any kind as long as it isn't too bulky. (As in not a clothes pin)
Make sure the legal Nintendo warranty back sticker is taken off.
Roughen up a back area of the wallet and roughen up one side of your money clip. If your clip doesn't have a near flat side, make it near flat. And unless your anal your cartridge doesn't have to be flat either, but you can make it so if you desire.
Add a copious amount of your gorilla impact tough super glue to the rough spot on the cartridge and then stick your clip in it rough side to rough side. Let it dry a while then add more glue to the edges so that it really stays on.
Now you can carry cold hard cash.
To make doubly sure that your wallet stays closed, we're going to add some industrial strength snaps. You can either have these inside the wallet or slightly visible on either side of your LEDs
Use your bits of leftover plastic and glue to level out the spaces below your usb key area and around your switch area on the backplate. Tiny pieces to stack beside the switch and plastic inset and then one flat piece over each for a level surface. Make sure they are level with the inner lip/ledge and not the top of the edge. Then let these constructs dry.
Use your dremel to cut off the cylinders in the faceplate part that go above these areas. Make sure they're flat.
With your faceplate on the ground, put your metal snaps in the area where the cylinders just were.
CAREFUL NOTE! We are only using half of the snap set made for clothing! We are only using the inner parts and we are gluing them to the wallet itself. We do not need the outer parts which are used so the snaps don't come off the clothing.
Close the wallet as tight as you can, especially pressing down on the corners where the snaps are, and then turn rightside up. if the snaps do not fall, you are good to go. If not, do a few dry placement tests with various thicknesses of plastic pieces.
Once the snaps don't move, open the case, take the snaps apart, then get some thing plastic (like say from a sandwich bag) and press the snaps together. Make sure it's waxy enough that the glue cannot stick to it. Add glue where you had the snaps at on the faceplate side then press down the snaps into it until the glue dries. Keep adding glue around the snap against the faceplate until you're sure it's near immovable. (Note, I couldn't completely cover over the switch with plexiglass. And my snaps have an open area. If yours do too and you had this same problem with your switch, have your open area over your switch. so that it covers it above the extended switch connectors. Then before adding superglue, fill all the cracks with hot glue making sure not to get any on the surfaces the superglue will be sticking to.)
Once your snaps are glued in forever to your faceplate and dry, add a generous portion of glue to the parts of the snap that are going to rest on those plastic pieces you built up. Once you have enough clamp it down by holding it together firmly, laying some heavy books on it, or using clamps. Wait a while (more than an hour at least, it's enclosed and therefore harder to dry) then try to open your wallet. It should give some resistance before parting. Some of the glue might have stuck to your sandwich bag bits but because of your bits of plastic, the tabs should not stick to each other. Add some more glue around the edge of your snaps on your baseplate and let that dry.
(One last note, one of the snap pieces has a bit of wire inside that acts as a spring release, make doubly sure to not get any super glue in this. If you want fill the area around the spring with hotglue then press the other half into it. Hotglue is easier to pick out with an exacto than superglue.)
Oh my, it's finished! Bask in your glorious gamey geekiness! And with the combined powers of Nintendo and Gorilla you have a nearly indestructible wallet! Way to go! Also this can also be tweaked to make a nearly indestructible case for a survival kit, or for a great looking case for your ipod!
No doubt you're wondering where you can put your cash.
Get your plain money clip. I used something I found on the ground that could very well be a belt clip. And you can too. If you see a beat up cell phone holder lying around, use it. Strip it apart and take out the clip. Or use a one piece clip of any kind as long as it isn't too bulky. (As in not a clothes pin)
Make sure the legal Nintendo warranty back sticker is taken off.
Roughen up a back area of the wallet and roughen up one side of your money clip. If your clip doesn't have a near flat side, make it near flat. And unless your anal your cartridge doesn't have to be flat either, but you can make it so if you desire.
Add a copious amount of your gorilla impact tough super glue to the rough spot on the cartridge and then stick your clip in it rough side to rough side. Let it dry a while then add more glue to the edges so that it really stays on.
Now you can carry cold hard cash.
To make doubly sure that your wallet stays closed, we're going to add some industrial strength snaps. You can either have these inside the wallet or slightly visible on either side of your LEDs
Use your bits of leftover plastic and glue to level out the spaces below your usb key area and around your switch area on the backplate. Tiny pieces to stack beside the switch and plastic inset and then one flat piece over each for a level surface. Make sure they are level with the inner lip/ledge and not the top of the edge. Then let these constructs dry.
Use your dremel to cut off the cylinders in the faceplate part that go above these areas. Make sure they're flat.
With your faceplate on the ground, put your metal snaps in the area where the cylinders just were.
CAREFUL NOTE! We are only using half of the snap set made for clothing! We are only using the inner parts and we are gluing them to the wallet itself. We do not need the outer parts which are used so the snaps don't come off the clothing.
Close the wallet as tight as you can, especially pressing down on the corners where the snaps are, and then turn rightside up. if the snaps do not fall, you are good to go. If not, do a few dry placement tests with various thicknesses of plastic pieces.
Once the snaps don't move, open the case, take the snaps apart, then get some thing plastic (like say from a sandwich bag) and press the snaps together. Make sure it's waxy enough that the glue cannot stick to it. Add glue where you had the snaps at on the faceplate side then press down the snaps into it until the glue dries. Keep adding glue around the snap against the faceplate until you're sure it's near immovable. (Note, I couldn't completely cover over the switch with plexiglass. And my snaps have an open area. If yours do too and you had this same problem with your switch, have your open area over your switch. so that it covers it above the extended switch connectors. Then before adding superglue, fill all the cracks with hot glue making sure not to get any on the surfaces the superglue will be sticking to.)
Once your snaps are glued in forever to your faceplate and dry, add a generous portion of glue to the parts of the snap that are going to rest on those plastic pieces you built up. Once you have enough clamp it down by holding it together firmly, laying some heavy books on it, or using clamps. Wait a while (more than an hour at least, it's enclosed and therefore harder to dry) then try to open your wallet. It should give some resistance before parting. Some of the glue might have stuck to your sandwich bag bits but because of your bits of plastic, the tabs should not stick to each other. Add some more glue around the edge of your snaps on your baseplate and let that dry.
(One last note, one of the snap pieces has a bit of wire inside that acts as a spring release, make doubly sure to not get any super glue in this. If you want fill the area around the spring with hotglue then press the other half into it. Hotglue is easier to pick out with an exacto than superglue.)
Oh my, it's finished! Bask in your glorious gamey geekiness! And with the combined powers of Nintendo and Gorilla you have a nearly indestructible wallet! Way to go! Also this can also be tweaked to make a nearly indestructible case for a survival kit, or for a great looking case for your ipod!
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Dec 2, 2011. 1:09 PMndalton1
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Seriously! How cool is this? My brother is a huge Nintendo fan and he would absolutely love this. I might have to make this for him for Christmas. This seems like a great indestructible wallet option.
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