I’ll start this off with a bit of a story (not common for build threads, I know. Go ahead and skip to the pictures if you need to)
So as a few of you may or may not know, I’m going to school to be a Tech Ed teacher. This semseter I’m taking a class where you can basically build whatever you want, so long as you can convince the professor that it’ll help you in your future career.
Not wanting to spend another shop class building useless knick-knacks, or making a futon or a table because I have to, I decided to see if I could convince my teacher to let me build a Ghost Trap. Thinking he’d be skeptical at best, I spent a TON of time writing up the required paperwork, talking about how I can make some CAD drawings to improve my CAD skills, and how this will improve my woodworking skills, and so on. I go to my meeting with the professor to get the project approved I sit down and he looks at his list, and we have the following exchange:
:sigh: “Okay so your project is “replica movie prop”…explain that one to me.”
“Have you ever seen the movie Ghostbusters?”
:sigh: “Oh, yeah…great movie”
“So you know the device they use to trap the ghosts, with the wheels and the pedal? I want to build that…there’s pictures on the back pages there”
He flips to the back looks at the pictures (and mind you, aside from my cover sheet this is all he’s looked at of my 6 pages of paperwork).
:sigh: “So are you putting lights in this?”
“Of course!”
:sigh: " That’s going to look pretty cool when you finish it. Have fun"
He looked at my pictures, heard it was going to have lights and approved it. And thus, I successfully met my hobby with my education.
TLDR; I’m building a trap for a class I’m taking.
The goal here is to kind of make a mix of the GB1 and GB2 trap. I like the compact look of the GB2 trap, but I like all the little details on the GB1 Trap more (red rods, different knobs etc.) Not screen accurate by any means, but I basically want to go for a degree of accuracy and some personal tastes.
Cut out my side pieces.
My Dremel skill is not as great as i thought it was. Had to fill in a TON of gaps on the battery box with some plumber’s epoxy. Sanded it down (pics of that later) and it doesn’t look too shabby.
Pedal pieces.
Gluing the cartridge together.
Handled.
Indicator piece. Goofed up some measurements so I filled in with epoxy putty…a lot.
Metal. Chiggity Check it.
Moar bits. I know the screws on the small plate are wrong, they’re just place holders.
So yeah, first scratch build for me. I’ll more than likely end up changing some things out. I’m likely going to have a bunch of temporary parts on here just so that it’s a completed piece since I’ve got to have this done by the end of the semester.
