ROTJ Darth Vader Graflex Stunt (MoM)(a.k.a. DV6) – by WannaWanga

[thd9791]

I think the funny thing is, just like the moon, we probably can date different weathering on this saber. The parallel lines are probably from a rough vise while drilling, for example.

On the moon you can date craters by how they overlap eachother, I should clarify

 

[eethan]

I think the funny thing is, just like the moon, we probably can date different weathering on this saber. The parallel lines are probably from a rough vise while drilling, for example.

On the moon you can date craters by how they overlap eachother, I should clarify

gosh, I just noticed this,
those paralell lines are very visible in one spot on that nice ref, and I think I have seen many people reproduce them that way:

however, I just noticed that they are on both side on the whole length of the upper graflex!

so yes, most probably some kind of vice, and they are catching the light more or less depending on the photos, but they are there on the whole length!

thank you for bringing those to attention and making me check

 

[kevin926]

I still need the guts I ordered the other day from Roman however, I’ve taken this as far as I could for now. I shot a dull clear coat over it and I think it worked out just fine. Some more messing with the finish still awaits after I get the bulb holder in with the last remaining pieces

 

[kevin926]

Here it is with his Darth Vader family

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

I miss jediscout as well. If you thought her lightsaber collection was impressive, you should have seen her art.

 

[NeoRutty]

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Hey! It's the Reymore! *tri blade to the right*

Anywho... had some thoughts on the Vader mom control box, and am looking for previous discussion on what it could be...

Anyone know what thread that was in? not seeing it in my searching....

 

[roygilsing]

Anywho... had some thoughts on the Vader mom control box, and am looking for previous discussion on what it could be...

Anyone know what thread that was in? not seeing it in my searching....

I won't mind if you post your thoughts here! Curious what you have to say.
All I know is that it might be a fuse box, nobody ever found it as far as I know.

 

[thd9791]

Dude please share! In the past 3 years I’ve explored 5 different industries and gotten very close but no cigar. I do have a thread I started specifically to discuss this part, but that was some time ago. I’m okay doing it here too.

The Barbican/Energizer part and the Luke/Vader part are related, I’m sure. The access holes look a LOT like wire access for Ex MOD aircraft switches. However, the actual shape looks like a fuse holder or a terminal block. I can’t tell what was on top before they drilled the countersinks for the screws.

I’ve also looked through SCR Thyristors, re-wireable plugs, ceramic fuse carriers and microswitches. Although, not having any through hole mounts or anything, that last one seems like a bust.

I did buy a 5CW series toggle switch with almost identical access holes.

Compared to Roy’s model

Then I picked up an aircraft breaker too.

Weird right. Well I also have a cast of the energizer saber, and after talking to Don Bies I guess he molded this part directly from the Barbican since they brought it to set for a bladed version on the commercial. I made a styrene version of that part from scratch and molded it.

Not the most detailed but generally this is it. The holes on the original part are oblong I think because they were drilled crooked. I think the corners of some of the walls on the original are rounded too, I missed that, styrene is only so forgiving lol

 

[Captain Dunsel]

 

[NeoRutty]

Yeah, but this is all pretty much exactly what I thought was going on with previous investigations/hunts…

sorry to disappoint!

I wanted to find the old thread, cause I was pretty sure toggle switches were covered

I saw a couple toggle switches where the casing behind it looked almost right… especially if there were plating that went around the side and into the front (because one side of that box is different than the other… and the little square indent would be great for folding the little tabs into)

So of course, I started searching for military surplus toggles… in the UK… looking for a two a two screw back piece.

I figured there was no way there’s that many technical people on this form that no one had seen a 70s toggle and not considered that.

So I was looking for the thread because (like has now happened) it would be like jumping into a thread several years back going “ hey guys that emitter at the end of the Obi-Wan saber… what about a sink drain?” Lol

 

[thd9791]

Yeah, but this is all pretty much exactly what I thought was going on with previous investigations/hunts…

sorry to disappoint!

I wanted to find the old thread, cause I was pretty sure toggle switches were covered

I saw a couple toggle switches where the casing behind it looked almost right… especially if there were plating that went around the side and into the front (because one side of that box is different than the other… and the little square indent would be great for folding the little tabs into)

So of course, I started searching for military surplus toggles… in the UK… looking for a two a two screw back piece.

I figured there was no way there’s that many technical people on this form that no one had seen a 70s toggle and not considered that.

So I was looking for the thread because (like has now happened) it would be like jumping into a thread several years back going “ hey guys that emitter at the end of the Obi-Wan saber… what about a sink drain?” Lol

Totally get it, sorry for dumping info on you lol

I distinctly remember an older member claiming they’d talked to someone who either held the saber or knew about it and said it was a momentary switch but it wasn’t identified because it was probably grabbed from bins of neat looking parts tossed together in the shop

Or something to that effect. This was on the RPF but I can’t remember when.

 

[NeoRutty]

Totally get it, sorry for dumping info on you lol

I distinctly remember an older member claiming they’d talked to someone who either held the saber or knew about it and said it was a momentary switch but it wasn’t identified because it was probably grabbed from bins of neat looking parts tossed together in the shop

Or something to that effect. This was on the RPF but I can’t remember when.

Naw that's exactly what I was looking for.

When I saw the random toggle's backing - it was so similar I thought "that's gotta be what it is..."

I mean they had full jet's to take apart right next door to shooting! There are SO MANY toggle switches.

Even an old lot of them on Ebay UK looked interesting. I didn't see any matches, but I wanted to buy and just pull apart... cuz looked damn close... like cousins. heh. Use for customs.

But the shipping would have killed me. I'm convinced it's from a toggle. I wish someone would find - it's my all time fave saber.

Still gotta buy some kit pieces off Roy! I have close to all parts for yet another, and want to do a super accurate looking one (I have an ideal... and a hardware version from an old websites instructions)