- March 24th, 2013, 6:39 pm#440157
It's been four years since I built my pack from a few dozen trips to thrift stores, lowes, and many great ideas from Garee & the community http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... =2&t=13353. It was built out of necessity and whim on a broke college student budget, but with love! It's had a rough life since then with some bits lost to eternity and others caked with glue from constant re-attachment. It's lasted much longer than it's parts and assembly probably should have - but it's time to modernize it!
The plan is to start with the thrower - I've got the disposable income to rebuild it, and it's the bit of the pack in the worst shape. It was a last-minute shipment from GBRob a few weeks before my first halloween and never properly built in the first time. I took the kit and added whatever random electronics I had at the time to make it look ghost-bustery . Many of my switches have failed, half the doodads added are gone, and it's ready to move on to the dixie cup bracket in the sky. (Pics of my existing pack/thrower will follow tonight as a 'Start Point' to this build thread) The only modifications to the pack will be some basic repairs, a few attempts to make the labels look a little better, and the best implantation of the Mighty light system as I can muster with very limited space and many parts not designed to come back off . Once I've saved up enough to get a good shell (and wade through the offerings! So many shells with good reviews, hard to determine which to build around), we'll move on to the pack later this year if I'm not sidetracked by one of those sexy belt gizmo kits...
The point of this thread is to A) Log the build for my own musings in a few years (looking back through the 2009 thread has been quite fun!), B) Hopefully provide another resource for builders who may be using my combination of parts and approaches, and C) Garner input from you smart-like folks while I build this thing! Could never have done the first one without helping hands from across the web.
The core of the build will (hopefully) be a ThrowingChicken 3.0 kit - I haven't got the order in yet, but hopefully they are still available tomorrow when the paypal deposit clears . I'll be using one of GhostGuy's impressive Mighty light and sound kits - this was an absolute must for me, as my original intent was to build up an Arduino solution so I could mod and extend it if desired at some undetermined point in the future. His microcontroller appears to fit the bill without giving me the headaches of building from scratch! A few bits will be coming off the old thrower or are in a bag that never got put onto it, everything else I'll be buying up from the community over the next bit. I'm not fully decided on rotating barrel or not, but leaning towards not. I definitely intend on doing an extending barrel, but method has yet to be fully determined. Currently leaning towards mburkit's implementation (http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... 44&start=0), but still searching the packs section for ideas.
I created a rough checklist using the Master Parts List (http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... =2&t=16866) as a guide. I may replace some bits from the kit with aluminum at some point, but I saw no reason not to try the resin first before springing for more aluminum than I already have. Also likely to switch out with a real R-701 at some point . Advice/comments on parts are appreciated and welcomed!
Build Checklist
Gun Body - TC 3.0
Front Handle Pipe - TC 3.0
Rear Instrument Bar - TC 3.0
Front & Rear Cylinder - TC 3.0
Heatsink - TC 3.0
Nycoil Banjo - TC 3.0
Knob next to Clippard - TC 3.0
Right-side behind heatsink small - TC 3.0
Right-side behind heatsink large - TC 3.0
Stream Adjuster (top) - Salvage (from JJS8801)/TC 3.0
Drift Velocity Knobs (Left) - Salvage (from JJS8801)/TC 3.0
Clear Light Cap - Salvage (from GBFans Shop)
Red Light Cover (slo-blo) - Salvage (from GBFans Shop)
Green Tubing - Salvage (from MMM/Irricanian)
Red Tubing - Salvage (from MMM/Irricanian)
Regular Labels - Salvage (from Dr. Sparky)
Trigger Tip - Nick-a-tron, Resin
Clippard R-701 - Nick-a-tron, Resin
Orange Hat Light - Nick-a-tron
White Hat Lights (x2) - Nick-a-tron
Switches - GhostGuy, Mighty Kit
LED's - GhostGuy, Mighty Kit
3/4" Loom - GBFans Shop
Clippard #11752 Hose Barb - GBFans Shop
Rear Handle Pipe -
Thrower Tube -
Gun Rub-Ons -
Extension Mechanism -
Metallic R-701 Label -
Bracket/Pack Attachment Method -
Misc build-related purchases:
4mm HXT Connectors, Battery Side - HobbyKing
4mm HXT Connectors, ESC Side - HobbyKing
Turnigy Accucel-6 50W 6A Balancer/Charger - HobbyKing
Turnigy 5000mAh 3S 20C Lipo Battery Pack - HobbyKing
The plan is to start with the thrower - I've got the disposable income to rebuild it, and it's the bit of the pack in the worst shape. It was a last-minute shipment from GBRob a few weeks before my first halloween and never properly built in the first time. I took the kit and added whatever random electronics I had at the time to make it look ghost-bustery . Many of my switches have failed, half the doodads added are gone, and it's ready to move on to the dixie cup bracket in the sky. (Pics of my existing pack/thrower will follow tonight as a 'Start Point' to this build thread) The only modifications to the pack will be some basic repairs, a few attempts to make the labels look a little better, and the best implantation of the Mighty light system as I can muster with very limited space and many parts not designed to come back off . Once I've saved up enough to get a good shell (and wade through the offerings! So many shells with good reviews, hard to determine which to build around), we'll move on to the pack later this year if I'm not sidetracked by one of those sexy belt gizmo kits...
The point of this thread is to A) Log the build for my own musings in a few years (looking back through the 2009 thread has been quite fun!), B) Hopefully provide another resource for builders who may be using my combination of parts and approaches, and C) Garner input from you smart-like folks while I build this thing! Could never have done the first one without helping hands from across the web.
The core of the build will (hopefully) be a ThrowingChicken 3.0 kit - I haven't got the order in yet, but hopefully they are still available tomorrow when the paypal deposit clears . I'll be using one of GhostGuy's impressive Mighty light and sound kits - this was an absolute must for me, as my original intent was to build up an Arduino solution so I could mod and extend it if desired at some undetermined point in the future. His microcontroller appears to fit the bill without giving me the headaches of building from scratch! A few bits will be coming off the old thrower or are in a bag that never got put onto it, everything else I'll be buying up from the community over the next bit. I'm not fully decided on rotating barrel or not, but leaning towards not. I definitely intend on doing an extending barrel, but method has yet to be fully determined. Currently leaning towards mburkit's implementation (http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... 44&start=0), but still searching the packs section for ideas.
I created a rough checklist using the Master Parts List (http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... =2&t=16866) as a guide. I may replace some bits from the kit with aluminum at some point, but I saw no reason not to try the resin first before springing for more aluminum than I already have. Also likely to switch out with a real R-701 at some point . Advice/comments on parts are appreciated and welcomed!
Build Checklist
Gun Body - TC 3.0
Front Handle Pipe - TC 3.0
Rear Instrument Bar - TC 3.0
Front & Rear Cylinder - TC 3.0
Heatsink - TC 3.0
Nycoil Banjo - TC 3.0
Knob next to Clippard - TC 3.0
Right-side behind heatsink small - TC 3.0
Right-side behind heatsink large - TC 3.0
Stream Adjuster (top) - Salvage (from JJS8801)/TC 3.0
Drift Velocity Knobs (Left) - Salvage (from JJS8801)/TC 3.0
Clear Light Cap - Salvage (from GBFans Shop)
Red Light Cover (slo-blo) - Salvage (from GBFans Shop)
Green Tubing - Salvage (from MMM/Irricanian)
Red Tubing - Salvage (from MMM/Irricanian)
Regular Labels - Salvage (from Dr. Sparky)
Trigger Tip - Nick-a-tron, Resin
Clippard R-701 - Nick-a-tron, Resin
Orange Hat Light - Nick-a-tron
White Hat Lights (x2) - Nick-a-tron
Switches - GhostGuy, Mighty Kit
LED's - GhostGuy, Mighty Kit
3/4" Loom - GBFans Shop
Clippard #11752 Hose Barb - GBFans Shop
Rear Handle Pipe -
Thrower Tube -
Gun Rub-Ons -
Extension Mechanism -
Metallic R-701 Label -
Bracket/Pack Attachment Method -
Misc build-related purchases:
4mm HXT Connectors, Battery Side - HobbyKing
4mm HXT Connectors, ESC Side - HobbyKing
Turnigy Accucel-6 50W 6A Balancer/Charger - HobbyKing
Turnigy 5000mAh 3S 20C Lipo Battery Pack - HobbyKing
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