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Subject: 
Re: New prototype lighting mod
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Thu, 9 Sep 2004 04:33:26 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Rob Hendrix wrote:
> Removable light-up weapon Stormtrooper.  Yes!  Removable weapon!
> 
> I decided to take out the ON/OFF switch on this model.  If you want to turn
> it off, just take off the weapon!  The contacts from the battery are in the
> hand and the gun has a contact on either side of the grip.  I haven't
> perfected the contact design; maybe more ideas will come to me.  It wasn't
> easy putting two contacts inside a minifig hand that touch two contacts on a
> minifig tool and still have the hand grip the tool.  Hopefully future
> developments will present better methods for the connection, as well as,
> easier ways to construct it.  Two piece metal hand with an insulator in the
> middle??

With your ability to cram everything into a single 1x1 round plate, I figured
that was what you'd used when I started reading your post.  This is neat, too,
though, since this should be a lot easier to convert for removable lightsabers
than cramming those dinky batteries into a lightsaber hilt.



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Removable light-up weapon Stormtrooper. Yes! Removable weapon! I decided to take out the ON/OFF switch on this model. If you want to turn it off, just take off the weapon! The contacts from the battery are in the hand and the gun has a contact on (...) (22 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.starwars)

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