By luke warmwater
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I cobbled together from hardware and spare parts this:

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Ghostbusters PKE Meter by WF&DT, on Flickr

The hull is two spliced-together electrical boxes from Home Depot. The handle is from an old Parks Saber I gutted years ago (never throw any greeblies away). The screen is an old camera viewfinder. Inside are a ghost trap sequencer and a phaser setting graph from Jupiter Electronics. The knobs are a battery terminal cleaning brush, some plumbing parts and a bottlecap. On the top is a proton gun acrylic tube with a chemical lightstick inside (red here; going to use a bright green one for Hween).

A short video of its operation is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkV7qAFDUxg
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