first proton pack for a frog

Hey there… after lurking here for about two years and acquiring parts from what it seems a decade, i finally started a pack.

First of all a big ahoy to AJ quick for this great, great and so useful board where the little boy in me is making a–oh so childish but fukin cool–dream come true.

Thx to the guys who’s craftmanship and ressources make this project tangible. Eric (Funkzilla), Colin (multimediamayhem), grantgrafx, Vinicius, Brock, the gb shop and uscmbuzz.

Of course this is not over. Takes a while to get there, but it’s real fun to build the thing. It aint movie accurate by no means, had to do with what i had in hand and i’ll try to survive with the inacurracies.

I started off with a fiberglass funkzilla shell and am i glad i did. I painted and weathered all the parts before assembling them. And this is progress from there:

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(Ok i dont care about how accurate the pack is… but i’ll change the wire with the good colors… promise!)

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Nothing is glued, i tried (and succeeded up to now) to screw everything. Which was really helpful cause, since i build my first pack, i had to unassembled some parts in order to put other in place.

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And now i need help. Cant find any ref pics on this:

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Could someone please-- PLEASE-- tell me (or show a pic!) of how wires going out the injectors and in the shell are connected to shell!!!

I’ll post my progress. Any suggestions are welcome.

http://www.gbfans.com/images/equipment/reference/29/8.jpg

just glue em

I drilled two holes into that spot, roughly 3/4" apart, and used an epoxy on the inside to keep their spot.

I just glued mine…of corse…i used about 200 glue sticks on my pack. XD

Any tubes going in the shell I always stick a safety pin through the end of it so if you try to tug it out the safety pin locks it in.You can then use glue.It works great.On my pack all my tubes are secured,hell you could hang the pack up from one of the tube and it will hold considering the tube doesn’t split.

You could also screw in threaded rods and then slip the tubes over them. I haven’t tried this method myself but I plan to on my current pack build.

What does this have to do with frogs, Bat Balls? :slight_smile:

We used the same clippard brass barbs used for the green hose on the wand.

He’s french. :slight_smile:

worst… quebecois.

thx for comments and pics, guys

getting there…

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How do you guys do to effectively weather the colored wires?

I totally thought this was going to be a tiny pack for an actual frog. Gotta say, kinda disappointed. :walterpeck:

Still though, awesome work.