- April 22nd, 2016, 9:16 pm#4861369
My brother and I built our first packs (Studio Creations shells with scratch-built, vaguely-accurate wood parts) over a couple weekends leading up to Halloween 2010. It was a fun and rewarding experience, but shortly thereafter we vowed to someday make "real" packs. We talked about having them finished before February 14, 2016, but didn't make that deadline (...bummer). Ultimately our agreement was that if a third Ghostbusters movie was ever made, we'd have our packs finished before it was released.
Our First Proton Packs, Halloween 2010
We've been collecting parts for a couple years, but the time has come to start putting everything together. We shared an apartment in 2010, but now live about 80 miles apart, so progress will be made primarily on weekends. We have most of the parts we need, and 12 weekends left to get it all put together.
Contents
This list is incomplete. It will be updated as our builds go along, and at the end will be a checklist of every part found on our packs.
Our First Proton Packs, Halloween 2010
We've been collecting parts for a couple years, but the time has come to start putting everything together. We shared an apartment in 2010, but now live about 80 miles apart, so progress will be made primarily on weekends. We have most of the parts we need, and 12 weekends left to get it all put together.
Contents
- Mounting Motherboard to Frame
- Assembling Bar Graph Bezels and Riveting L-Brackets to Motherboards
- Mounting Shells to Motherboards and Replacing Vertical Cross Bars on Frames
- Cutting Out N-Filters and Filing Out Bar Graph Slots
This list is incomplete. It will be updated as our builds go along, and at the end will be a checklist of every part found on our packs.
- Fiberglass Shell (GBFans Shop)
- Aluminum Motherboard (GBFans Shop)
- Mounting L Brackets (Ejgunth87)
- 3/16" Large Flange Rivets (Ejgunth87)
- 1/4"-20 Socket Cap Screws (Ejgunth87)
- 1/4" Washers (Ejgunth87)
- ALICE Frame
- 1" x 1/8" Steel Flat Bar (Home Depot)
- 3/16" Rivets (Home Depot)
- Rubber Spacers (Nickatron)
- 3/8"-16 x 2" Carriage Bolts (Home Depot)
- 3/8"-16 x 2" Button Head Socket Cap Screw (Menards)
- 3/8" Chrome Washer (Menards)
- 3/8" Lock Washers (Home Depot)
- 3/8" Hex Nuts (Home Depot)
- N-Filter (GBFans Shop)
- Thrower Body (CPU64)
- Bar Graph Bezel (Spongeface)
Last edited by Jimm on May 15th, 2016, 8:18 pm, edited 4 times in total.