saber build

I've actually put together a little wish list for my saber, rather then build a new one, just going to tweak/change the shape and continue to "evolve" mine to kind of reflect my personal growth. Not a finalized list but was looking at getting the following list:

http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/ViewWishlist.aspx?WishlistId=47821

I have noticed that my UltraSaber tends to heat up rather quickly. Since I still know so little, I wasn't sure if this was normal or not but I don't want to tempt fate by leaving it on for extended periods of time (more than ten minutes).

Is there a heatsink on the bottom of your led?(Looks like a round solid piece of copper shaped like a T from the side, about the side of your thumbnail probably in both width and height), or looks like similar to the item on the right? And if/so did you put any heat paste between the two?, both help to remove heat from the led and into the handle, now if the handle doesn't have a vent anywhere on it, that might also be why it gets hot(sometimes just changing the pommel at the bottom to one designed for a "speaker" can give i enough vent of air to cool it down as well);

Tellahane wrote: Is there a heatsink on the bottom of your led?(Looks like a round solid piece of copper shaped like a T from the side, about the side of your thumbnail probably in both width and height), or looks like similar to the item on the right? And if/so did you put any heat paste between the two?, both help to remove heat from the led and into the handle, now if the handle doesn't have a vent anywhere on it, that might also be why it gets hot(sometimes just changing the pommel at the bottom to one designed for a "speaker" can give i enough vent of air to cool it down as well);

Well it was a stock UltraSabers Apprentice, I can't even pull the electronics out to see whats inside for crying out loud. The switch won't unscrew - I don't know if they glued the thing in, or what, it's ridiculous.

after 5 months of aggravation and lousy timing i've finally managed to procure a nanobiscotte v2 soundboard which should arrive in about a week. hopefully this solves my lighting and sound issue on silverfang....i've already got all the other parts from the original build list (during my aggravation i started over from scratch on the internals)

it's the first bit of good news for me in nearly 2 months....

CryojenX wrote: Well it was a stock UltraSabers Apprentice, I can't even pull the electronics out to see whats inside for crying out loud. The switch won't unscrew - I don't know if they glued the thing in, or what, it's ridiculous.

they're usually screwed in, but done so pretty tight....you need to tape around the switch so you don't scar up the hilt unless you want some "battle damage" then use either a vise or vise grips to grab the black guard around the switch and apply considerable effort in a counterclockwise direction...it won't come out easy, but it will come out...i should also mention you'll probably have to cut the wires leading to the switch from the led and from the battery pack/soundboard...

there's some youtube videos that show the process....