My Belt Gizmo Build Pic Heavy 7/18/2011

[Letmebleed75]

So I finally attempted my belt gizmo. I recieved a kit from nic-a-tron which is absolutely a dream to work with. I 100% recommend him to you as his shipping is fast and quality of parts is outstanding.

I started by giving them a good scrub down with soapy water and wet sanded them.

Then painted them with satin espresso brown

I bought a amp cord from radio shack and bought a plastic electrical plug which i converted into a “plug in” for the gizmo. Used heat shrink to pull it all together!

As that was drying I started to heat shrink my nixie tubes…

As I was doing this my lovely wife started painting the board using reference photos from Gbfan builds. We used acrylic sharpie paint markers.

Then I bought a ton of random capacitors, chips, resistors etc. at radio shack and started making a diagram of where i was going to put everything.

Then drilled out all the holes and began placing them on the board. Most of the parts were secured using hot glue which worked like a charm.

Then tackled the nixies which were a pain in the butt. Some of the heatshrink ended up getting damaged, o well. Guess ill have to redo it on another gizmo build. Luckily I was able to save it and make it somewhat decent.

Here it is on my belt!

Please let me know what you think! I know it isnt the best but im happy for my first try!

[sbonse]

Looks really good. Nicks kits are excellent. I used his kit for my belt gizmo

[parksdesign]

looks good.

[Letmebleed75]

Thanks for the kind words!

[demon-vice-commander]

Not bad at all.

[KyleS]

Good work? Where did you get your nixie tubes?

[Letmebleed75]

Thx guys! The nixie tubes were bought off eBay. Do a search there you’ll find a good amount of sellers. mainly from Russia and Romania so order fast cause they take a bit of time shipping

[Jasonrglass]

Dude you built that your self, That is awesome!!

[sbonse]

Your belt gizmo looks good. Similar to the one I built using nicks kit. The real components set it off loads.

[Letmebleed75]

Thanks for the great comments! Im gonna be building another one soon for my wifes costume

[Mark_Jannise]

That looks really good, man. I have some nixie tubes coming in from ebay. I was wondering what size heat shrink tubing you used for the leads coming off of them? I was thinking about getting some 1/8" OD before shrinking, but I wasn’t sure.

[Letmebleed75]

The smallest available. I’d have to double check the size

[imagine4056]

Very very nice!!

I’m going to be building my own pretty soon, so I was wondering how you secured the back of it? Like all the wires that are pushed through, how did you cover them all?

[Letmebleed75]

Just used hot glue over the exposed wires. Bent them over after I pushed them through the holes, put a small bit of hot glue and now they won’t budge. I removed a clip off of a tape measure and epoxied it to the daughter board