Proton Pack Making

GhostBusters95 · August 13, 2009, 8:28pm

GhostGuy:

14 and the plans too hard to follow? No problem.

Go to this page:

http://www.gbfans.com/equipment/reference/

At the top you’ll find proton pack screen grabs. At the bottom you’ll find photos of the pack from plant hollywood. Print a few of those and use them as a reference.

Now check your dad’s garages for parts you can use. Grab everyhting you can find.

You’ll need stuff like the following:

Wires, hoses, and rubber and plastic tubes

Electric tape and duct tape

Small caps and knobs

Metal rods, wooden dowels

Screws and bolts

Large and small washers

Cans

Electrical boxes (the kind you mount light switches and plugs in when you put them in the wall)

Wood

Large detergent caps

Electric tape container

Knobs from stereos or radios

Red and blue clear plastic from folders or shampoo bottles

Flashlight or other battery powered lights preferably which flash.

Blue or red glow stick

Cake pan or other large round thing about 9" around for the cyclotron.

Bascially grab all the junk you can and throw it in a big pile.

Here’s a pack I built last year largely out of the junk I listed above:

The big ribbed hose is from a vaccum cleaner. The ribbed boxes are electrical boxes. The big box on the top left is a speaker box. You’ll need a big flat piece of wood to mount it to. Or you can use a big piece of carboard. If you’re gonna use a backpack find some way to connect that to this “motherboard” first.

Then just tape everything on there. That’s what I did. Put the tape on the inside if you can.

I cheated a bit in that the bottom half is all built from wood but if you just layer some wood up you can get something similar. You’ll have to glue it together though, tape won’t hold it. Or you could nail it. Keep in mind it’ll be heavy though. So you’ll want to keep the amount of wood you use low. My pack weighs about half as much as you do.

If you use FOAM anywhere, you MUST cover it with tape or a lot of glue before you paint it. The paint will dissolve the foam. Unless you use latex paint. I’m talking about spraypaint.

Oh and the cylinder thing on the top right is a dtergent cap like I mentioned. And the cylynder on the bottom right on the cyclotron is a pringles can.

The bumper on the cyclotron is a rubber sheath for wiring with a coathanger inside to keep it straight. You might have a hard time finding that sort of thing though. You can make that out of cardboard instead.

The proton gun here is just a star wars blaster I removed all the extra parts from and painted black, and then drilled a hole in the front to stick in a piece of clear tubing.

For the hose leading to the gun you could do what I did initially, if you can’t find a black hose, and just take any old hose and cover it in black tape or paint it black (again with latex paint, spraypaint will likely melt a rubber hose).

Just be creative. As long as you have a bunch of boxes and wires on there and something that looks like a cyclotron nobody will know the difference!

Oh and don’t forget to print the labels up and glue them on there.

[edit]

Yeah if you have back problems you definitely don’t want any wood on there. You’ll need to use cardboard boxes or something. If there’s a post office near you, go in there and grab some of their priority mail boxes. They’re free, and square. FedEx would have some too for free of smaller sizes. Or have your dad grab some.

How much is all this?

GhostGuy · August 13, 2009, 8:28pm

Do you have any christmas wrapping paper? A way to make the gun would be to take one of those carboard tubes, cut it in half, then tape them together side by side like so:

…=|||======

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Then stick a small cardboard box over the place you taped them together.

GhostBusters95 · August 13, 2009, 8:31pm

Yeah I have lots of wrapping paper

GhostGuy · August 13, 2009, 8:33pm

It’s free if you get it out of your dad’s garage.

I’m tellin’ ya to use whatever junk you have laying around!

The stuff you have to pay for will be whatever you can’t find that you need. Most likely that will be black paint, and maybe tape, and maybe a cake pan.

Just start collecting junk. Bring the photo of the pack with you when you do it. Look at each part and see if there’s anything that you can use that’s similar to that part.

Only once you collect all the junk you can find for the various parts of the pack will you know what you’re missing. It’s impossible to plan it all out ahead of time doing it this way.

You can color stuff black with a marker too if you have one of those. Just don’t use the permanent ones. They stink.

GhostBusters95 · August 13, 2009, 8:37pm

GhostGuy:

GhostBusters95:

How much is all this?

It’s free if you get it out of your dad’s garage.

I’m tellin’ ya to use whatever junk you have laying around!

The stuff you have to pay for will be whatever you can’t find that you need. Most likely that will be black paint, and maybe tape, and maybe a cake pan.

Just start collecting junk. Bring the photo of the pack with you when you do it. Look at each part and see if there’s anything that you can use that’s similar to that part.

Only once you collect all the junk you can find for the various parts of the pack will you know what you’re missing. It’s impossible to plan it all out ahead of time doing it this way.

You can color stuff black with a marker too if you have one of those. Just don’t use the permanent ones. They stink.

do you have any ideas on like building a pack around a backpack?

Nerdy_NotionZ · August 13, 2009, 8:39pm

If you use the foamcore, you can just cut the straps off your old backpack and glue them to the motherboard of the foamcore pack

GhostGuy · August 13, 2009, 9:35pm

Is this your backpack?

Nerdy_NotionZ · August 13, 2009, 9:37pm

After taling with GB95 in PM, I think this is his only choice

http://www.80stees.com/products/Ghostbusters-Costume.asp

GhostBusters95 · August 13, 2009, 9:42pm

Ugh no >.< I just want it cheap and as in cheap, for example, building stuff around my old backpack. I want a homemade. I was just saying that the two honors classes are gonna bring be down on week days PLUS marching band on friday and saturday games so I’ll probably only have sunday to do this stuff. Brad’s idea I can totally do.

Na, its this one: Champs Sports | Champs Sports

GhostBusters95 · August 13, 2009, 9:46pm

Edit:

Plus you gave me plans and I CAN’T understand them correctly >.< I’m only 14 and I can’t understand the plans all that brad told me I understand.

Nerdy_NotionZ · August 13, 2009, 9:47pm

Like I said in the PM. I built my foamcore pack in a total of 6 hours spread across 2 days. Only reason it took 2 days is because I had to work.

U said the plans are too hard for you, a 14 year old.

My 13 year old step-son has built a pack using “Norm’s Proton Pack Plans” and it took him about 7 hours to do.

He even did like I said you should, and just attach the straps from a backpack to the motherboard of the pack.

I just dont see your logic at all…

GhostBusters95 · August 13, 2009, 9:52pm

Well just bc he built it by doing that doesn’t me that I am going to understand it. Our brains all work differently. I truly just want something easy cheap and not time consuming. Like I said I would like to build a good one around the backpack.

Edit:

Also I told you that I’m just gonna start out easy and cheap and as i get older make it more realalistic.

Not404Error · August 13, 2009, 10:01pm

He’s 14, man. I don’t think he’s gonna be working with foamcore.

Check out this topic, 95: Gareee's Budget Packs: Halloween alternative build ideas - Proton Packs - GBFans.com

Foos_Bobaganoosh · August 13, 2009, 10:05pm

I see where you’re going. Find a cardboard box that’s the general shape of the pack—rectangular. Cut 4 slots in it to send the back pack straps through. The back pack will be inside of the box, and the straps will come out, through the slots.

then paint it black, attach whatever else you want(smaller boxes, stickers, labels), and just use a simple vacuum hose or something. put it thru a hole in the box.

Is that more what you’re wanting to do?

GhostBusters95 · August 13, 2009, 10:07pm

Is there steps I can use? I suck at looking and making. Also, is their a way I can fit this around a backpack, if not its ok if the steps are easy.

Nerdy_NotionZ · August 13, 2009, 10:09pm

Face it dude. You are NOT going to have a good pack if you are wanting a backpack to go inside it. Just forget it.

You might as well just put a tube into the backpack and call it done.

GhostBusters95 · August 13, 2009, 10:11pm

Why the heck are you insulting me. I was some easy steps or something to go around the backpack, easy as that.

Not404Error · August 13, 2009, 10:13pm

Shut the ■■■■ up.

95, it can be done. All you’ll have to do is cut out slits through the motherboard to feed your straps through and glue them in place.

Garee’s thread is pretty straightforward and he lists a lot of the materials needed. A couple electrical boxes (from Lowes or Home Depot, shouldn’t run you more than $5 a box iirc), some tubes, a cake pan.

Nerdy_NotionZ · August 13, 2009, 10:14pm

I am not insulting you.

Norm’s plans give details on the best ways to create a pack built from household materials. It is the easiest way to do it.

Not404Error : Bite my shiny metal ass

GhostBusters95 · August 13, 2009, 10:14pm

Okay thanks for all the help and standing up for me, I really appreciate it.

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