Venkman screwed up... my theory

[Janoszpoha]

what about the bit in GB2 when Egon tells everyone to switch to ‘full neutronas’. what bits are they fiddling with?

[toa_aotearoa]

@PeteVenkman_Jedi

The actual mechanism that was used for extending the barrel looked like and worked just like this…

So, how does the rubber band hold up with a light kit installed? No melting or anything?

//tomasi

[giantsloar]

I didn’t realize the bring it up in GBII I’ll haveta watch it again.

[PeteVenkman_Jedi]

@toa_aotearoa

So, how does the rubber band hold up with a light kit installed? No melting or anything?

//tomasi

LED’s don’t produce any heat. So no worries about melting the elastic.

[kingpin]

@giantsloar

I didn’t realize the bring it up in GBII I’ll haveta watch it again.

The particular dialogue is when they’re at the museum and blasting the slime shell covering it.

[Ecto96]

@prototype7

Maybe this has been covered before but I remember when I set out to build my pack… I was going to have seperate switches on the pack and on the gun. Because I remember watching the first movie and Venkman switches Ray’s pack on from the left side.

But now that I think about it I can’t remember any other time in either movie where they activate the pack seperately. So my theory was that Murray was supposed to switch on the thrower, but couldn’t reach it in the cramped elevator so he just went for the side.

Make sense?

Didn’t Egon switch his pack on then try to scoot away from the ‘unlicensed nuclear accelerator’?

[wendelloni]

@PeteVenkman_Jedi

@toa_aotearoa

So, how does the rubber band hold up with a light kit installed? No melting or anything?

//tomasi

LED’s don’t produce any heat. So no worries about melting the elastic.

You are neglecting one thing. Whilst the LEDs are not a heat issue, the circuit boards that control the lights definitely do produce heat. I haven’t looked at my Hyperdyne light board in a while, but my Exoray light board has a heat sink on it that gets hot. And other parts get warm.

Regardless of the existence of rubber bands in your gun box, which definitely are not hear to debate the existence there of, it’s always good to give those boards as much breathing room as you can. The gun with the Hyperdyne kit is really cramped due to the the size of the intererior space (the fiberglass body has very thick walls) and all the junk that had to fit in there. I try not to leave those lights running for long.

[fifth_beatle]

Yeah, I definitely couldn’t use the rubber band idea. I already have way too much stuff taking up that space as it is. If I have the barrel tube extend, it will have to be rigged along the left side interior, traveling across the front interior, and then up the pvc. I think it’s accomplishable (is that a word?) with a little trial and error.

~5B

[stanztheman]

Has anyone thought that Egon may have actually reached around to the thrower and thumbed it on? The reason being that they wanted at least one pack up and running right out of the elevator and Ray knew he couldnt do it in the cramped location? Also, I’m sure they came up with it just as a funny gag for the movie.

[PeteVenkman_Jedi]

@wendelloni

You are neglecting one thing. Whilst the LEDs are not a heat issue, the circuit boards that control the lights definitely do produce heat. I haven’t looked at my Hyperdyne light board in a while, but my Exoray light board has a heat sink on it that gets hot. And other parts get warm.

Regardless of the existence of rubber bands in your gun box, which definitely are not hear to debate the existence there of, it’s always good to give those boards as much breathing room as you can. The gun with the Hyperdyne kit is really cramped due to the the size of the intererior space (the fiberglass body has very thick walls) and all the junk that had to fit in there. I try not to leave those lights running for long.

Again not an issue for me as I placed the control board for my gun into the pack itself and just ran all the wires up to the gun to avoid that problem all together. Yes, that required a helluva lot of soldering.