Introducing... Darth Vaper

[dizzi]

DSCF2190 by Dizzy Knits, on Flickr

My first mod, a simple 3.7 volt job. With huge thanks to Mark at Warlords who supplied all the bits apart from tin and battery and even threw in a free pre-soldered connector to help me see how to solder that correctly. Along with other freebies and a lot of help through Warlords chat service. I highly recommend Warlords, Mark is extremely helpful and knowledgeable and a top chap all round.


DSCF2189 by Dizzy Knits, on Flickr

The wiring bit was easy, although I think I need a better soldering iron. The battery is a very tight ft, I was expecting the tin to be slightly bigger so I had more room for maneuver, but I think I made a fair fist of it. Lots and lots of insulating tape and hot glue to keep everything in place and prevent shorts. The difficult bit was drilling the holes - next time I'll get hubby to take the tin to work and use their drill press. Also next time I'll be using a bigger tin or a smaller battery - I might redo this one to take a smaller battery as well. I'd really rather stick a proper plastic battery holder in there, instead of faffing about with so much tape which may wear through in time.


DSCF2192 by Dizzy Knits, on Flickr

This one isn't brilliant, I neglected to protect the tin by wrapping it with tape before starting work on it so there's some scratches and worn-off paint on the edges of the back. The lid is now a very tight fit due to some buckling where I drilled the hole for the connector. And there's a small hole close to the connector, caused by me not being careful enough when tapping the pilot hole. But it works, and hey, it's Darth Vaper! This one's for hubby, the Star Wars geek, for Christmas. I also have Storm Trooper and R2D2 tins to mod, all the tins came with free mints so that's a bonus And I have plans for a bright pink torch mod, and a pipe on its way from Ukraine also to be modded. Watch this space...

[Sandra (aka Chillax)]

Big congrats dizzi well done, #icon_welldone#

[DiscoDes]

Yes, well done!

[Perpetua]

Wow! Kudos to you Dizzi.

[maccafan]

Nice.. a couple of red LED for the eyes that light up when the button is pressed would be a killer..

[dizzi]

Macca that would be ace - maybe I'll make Darth Vaper II at some point, with red LEDs. I'll try to find a "gaspy" head for the Nova as well, so it'll have sound effects!

Thanks chaps for the comments, means a lot. I rewired and rewicked a rebuildable clearo last night as well, so with that, Darth and the DIY juices I'm feeling pretty chuffed with myself at the moment!

[violetblade]

Well done Dizzi May the force be with you

[beautycat]

Wow well done dizzi

[piper1]

Great stuff

[steptoe]

Looks good well done

[goofy]

You're not my father!!

[warlordxxx - (Mark)]

Hey Dizzi - wow good job i'm impressed thanks for the kind words and have to say i'm glad you made the mod you wanted - Awesome job

[genguskhan]

The Force is strong in this one really good dizzi

[Moon]

Bloody well done, that's ace.

[GothicLord]

that is awesome, nice job