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Dan Shannon's PKE Meter
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| | Using a Dollar Tree lint brush, I went about the Coz_UK method and set out to prove him wrong on one thing: You CAN fit electronics into a lint brush. Not exactly easy as I found out and I did take some liberties with the proportions seeing it was slightly harder to get the guts into this punk, but I did manage to get working lights in the wings itself, I can still add lights to the screen, but for the moment I'm holding off on that one.
Materials: 1 Dollar Tree lint brush, Rainbow Ribbon cable left over from Pack renovation, LED car alarm light reverse engineered to take two lights per port, thick for sale sign plastic, thin for sale sign plastic, Forster Skinny craft sticks, super and hot glue, 1 wire hanger, 2 slide switches, and all of it powered by an Energizer A23 type power cell. may not have super long life, but the case is easily open-able by popping the plastic rivets that hold the shell together.
Procedure: The Wings were made from 6 layers of thick for sale plastic, then with a Dremel ground out all the filling until the lights and wires fit. After installing the lights, I went over the opening with thin plastic and painted it up. The back plate was a piece of thin plastic super glued on, then sanded down the rods until flat, saturated in super glue, then glued them onto the back of the back plate. More plastic used on the front for the screen with a piece of translucent green CD case plastic glued into the opening and gone over with a sharpie for the grid. Rod was made from a pen. Used wood putty for fill everything in. Used Dupli-Color thick fill primer and use Krylon BBQ and Stove paint to paint it over.
A few details are missing, but I'm working on it. |
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