[Fineus]

Bricks don't shatter on impact dude

[Stryke 9]

Bricks?

[Dark_4ce]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
Shop vacs are not a nessicity but a household vac will make life interesting. You need to work very fast in order to get a good mold. Don't ever expect to get it right first time, it'll take a good deal of practise

Still, good luck it's something that I considered but I chose to build a proton pack instead.
Perhaps next year...

BTW A 'shop vac' is an american term just in case you're not familiar with the term. It's an industrial vac from a wood-shop. It generally will have a few motors for greater suction than a normal vac. If you have a dyson that would kick ass since they're pretty powerful.

Ok, I'll first try out with my household vac. But if it won't work I'll try and "appropriate" a shopvac from my old school art class. By the way, how much do you think sheets of PBA plastic cost nowadays?

[Martinus]

Bloody hell would you trust me with a working saber? I wouldn't trust me, that should say enough. I've broken enough furniture etc. as a kid with a stick and my imagination to know that any real weaponry, especially of the destructive potential of a saber should not be left in the same room as me. I fear I could inadvertantly cause more trouble than an0n with a copy of the anarcists cookbook and malicious intent

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce


Ok, I'll first try out with my household vac. But if it won't work I'll try and "appropriate" a shopvac from my old school art class. By the way, how much do you think sheets of PBA plastic cost nowadays?

What country are you in?

[Razor]

Waste of money if you ask me. I planned to make a lightsaber of my own (well just the grip) when I thought: This is awesome!! I gotta make it my self. Then I drew concepts and came up with at least 20 different designs. Anyway, why build it? It doesn't sound like a good idea and plus it is a waist of time. I can instead play Jedi outcast rather than build a lightsaber prop which won't have any use.

[vadar_1]

those sabers have a major flaw... the ugly red cap at the end of the blade... ruins the whole effect.

[Razor]

Besides, no lightsaber would withstand the awesome power of this handy dandy molten slag maker.

[Stryke 9]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
Bloody hell would you trust me with a working saber?

That's not the issue. After all, who'd make a weapon that'd be safe with one? You're all just lucky my microwave cannon keeps melting the tip before it can ignite much else.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Stryke 9

That's not the issue. After all, who'd make a weapon that'd be safe with one? You're all just lucky my microwave cannon keeps melting the tip before it can ignite much else.

Hmmm, reminds me of a plan I once had...

Place inordinately large slice of bread parrallel to a bovine.
Microwave steadily for twelve minutes with microwave gun.
Tip cow onto the bread.
Wipe ass, cut off horns.
Add lettuce, tomato ketchup etc.
Place inordinately large slice of bread on top of bovine.


Voila! The worlds largest beefburger.

[Stryke 9]

You'd waste a steel-melting, stone-charring, inferno-creating device of potential mass destruction on a COW???

You can have it. The oil truck's mine.

[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Pfff. $200 toys for grown children. I dunno. Maeg's is cool, but that's because he BUILT the damn thing, rather than just going and buying a flourescent lightbulb holder. I'd be really impressed if he found a way to get his weapon FUNCTIONAL, but as it is it's pretty good.

If I want something long and sharp, I'll stick with my machete, thank you. If it was good enough for Che, it's good enough for me, and besides it doesn't shatter on impact.

Hehe, where I live, Machetes used to be standard equipment. I still have this rusty, big-as* one
Machetes rule!

[Unknown Target]

BTW, did you know you could make a flamethrower with a supersoaker?
Ingredients:
Super Soaker
Fuel
Bunsen Burner. You can get these from your local science lab
Duct Tape
Metal Sheet
Welding gun
Basic Metalworking knowledge.

Steps:

1.)Get your supersoaker, and weld your metal sheet around the nozzel-this is to prevent it from melting, at least for a little while-

2.)Duct tape your bunsen burner to the nozzel, so the flame is just jutting in front of the nozzel, a little ways away. Attach the gas hose to one of the tanks.

3.)Fill tanks with fuel.

4.)Let 'er rip!!!!!!:D

I've always wanted to make one of those

[Stryke 9]

Doesn't work- unless you get one of those REALLY high-velocity squirtguns, and let go of the trigger before it starts to run out of pressure, the flame shoots into the tank and the whole thing goes BLOOIE in your face- pretty ugly, dude at the hospital's gotta pick all those little bits of molten plastic out of what's left of your face, and odds are you'd still be able to feel it...

[Unknown Target]

High-pressure water gun?

[Unknown Target]

BTW, if you wanted some real use out of the lightsaber mock-ups, you would instead make the blade out of wood, or the stuff they use to make jet cockpits (I think it's commerically available) I think it's called Lexicone or something...

[Corsair]

Originally posted by Unkown Target
BTW, did you know you could make a flamethrower with a supersoaker?
Ingredients:
Super Soaker
Fuel
Bunsen Burner. You can get these from your local science lab
Duct Tape
Metal Sheet
Welding gun
Basic Metalworking knowledge.

Steps:

1.)Get your supersoaker, and weld your metal sheet around the nozzel-this is to prevent it from melting, at least for a little while-

2.)Duct tape your bunsen burner to the nozzel, so the flame is just jutting in front of the nozzel, a little ways away. Attach the gas hose to one of the tanks.

3.)Fill tanks with fuel.

4.)Let 'er rip!!!!!!:D

I've always wanted to make one of those

mmm swords. They sold lots of them in China. And my friends all got onboard the airplane with them too. Terrible security. Freikin daggers sticking out of every pocket and the metal detector people let them through. Very strange.

[NotDefault]

Originally posted by an0n
Pfff. Nothing beams a home-made microwave mortar. It flies up in the air, travels miles, falls, hits the ground, emits a massive EMP and microwave pulse powered by it's industrial capacitors, irradiates everything within about 50m and then it either smushes or it explodes. Now THAT is a cool weapon.

Between that, Stormtrooper armor, Lightsabers, and a Flamethrower you'd be a one-man army.  And it's all homemade!

[Grey Wolf]

Personally, I'd buy a tac nuke from a disgruntled Russian scientist. Just picture it....
[size=10][glow=red]For only $19.95, you, too, can become a nuclear power! Scare your friends, irradiate your enemies![/size][/glow]

[Stryke 9]

Nah. Nukes, they got no subtlety. Not saying a mortar-rigged Molotov shotgun or a ballistic dirty bomb does, but...


...I forgot my point.