Pick your brain on a chassis

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I am in need of some input on a saber chassis.

I picked up the Shadow Foil Stranger Danger hilt, and I am planning a chassis. If you haven’t heard of this one, it is from the show Acolyte and separates into two, one being a shoto.

Shadow Foil does offer a chassis, but I like to make my own for fun. It looks like their plan is the upper chassis gets contained by threading the pieces together and trapping it in a small ring recess.

For the lower, it looks like it has a larger diameter on the bottom of the chassis, again trapping it in the threaded lower hilt. See this image

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That sounds very incontinent to me. not only does it not always thread off at the right spot (there are many nested shields), it also has the possibility to loose “clock” every time.

So what I would like to do is make it them slide out chassis. the lower will work imo, by the blade/blade plug retention. Just slide in the chassis then blade plug and secure it with the retention screw.

The upper is what I can’t figure out. There is a lip at the blade opening that the blade plug sits on and will also stop the chassis, but nothing on the butt end once the shoto is removed. One idea I had was to make a plug with the same cam lock as the shoto. That seems a bit clunky if I am trying to look cool - take off shoto, grab plug, thread it in, then continue to look cool

I don’t know, any ideas? Maybe some sort of wedge piece that I can put in there after powering on, allows the shoto to click in, but is still easy to remove when done to power off? Maybe a lever lock?

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Lots of chassis seems to have this sort of design where it kind of seems like they added some features on the interior, but how to use those features is baffling.

Here are a few ideas that may or may not be helpful:

  1. Can you use the same screw that holds the control box in place to hold the chassis in place?
  2. Maybe just ignore that the inner diameter of the bottom widens?
  3. You can use the bottom hilt to hold the upper chassis in place.
  4. There is a chassis you can use for inspiration here: Stranger Danger Chassis
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I saber inside another saber. Hum, the only thing that comes to mind is (insert C3PO’s voice from EP2 on Geonosis) “How perverse!”

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Thanks for the thoughts!

  1. Yes and that is a pretty good idea. Might be the way to go.
  2. Yes, I had planned on just making the lower chassis the smaller diameter and sliding it in and out. Makes for a tighter install, however.
  3. Yes, but it intended to both be used at the same time. SO once you pull out eh small saber, the large saber chassis would just fall out/or not engage the pogo pins any longer.
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  4. Yep. I found that, and that is how deduced how they planned it out. I don’t like how they did it and I plan on using better speakers.
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:wink::wink::wink:

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Seems like it’ escalating.
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