Great Lakes Garrison & Base

ok, this is deaftrooper talking: honey, you're sleeping on the balcony tonight!

From the girlfriend: You told me to clean. I cleaned. You did NOT specify which room or how clean you wanted it. My idea of clean and your idea of clean are night and day. I cleaned. You shuffle messes, check your geek boards (no offense to anyone else on this board, but DeafTrooper here is a HUGE g...

started on the painting last night. now correct me if i'm wrong, but the grill portion and the verticle strip on the back side are smoked gray, correct?

:mad: ARRRRRGH!!! So want to kill the girlfriend. Was at work when I remembered that I had a smoked paintball visor that I never used and wanted to see if it would fit. Well, much to my chagrin, she decided to clean my office/video studio and I can't find a darn thing anymore. Don't know what she di...

LOL Thanks guys! Well, I got the visor and aerators taped on to see how they fit. Will make a trip to get some paint in a few days. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/MrFett/clone%20trooper%20build/HPIM2660.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/MrFett/clone%20trooper%20build/HPIM2659.jpg As f...

man, I must have been real tired when i measured it last time. Could've sworn it was 25mm wide. You guys are right...it is 50mm/2 inches. will see what radio shack has tomorrow.

what size do you have? i want to go with 25mm by 25mm and stick them right behind the aerators. i looked on the radio shack web site and they don't have any in that size. was going to get the ones from a web site that someone posted.

Does it actually matter if it is green or smoke? I'd prefer the smoked one. I don't think it matters, the only thing I can think of is that with pictures if its not tinted enough on the smoke kind you might see you face or an outline; Doesn't happen with the greens. those of you who have fans insid...

Does it actually matter if it is green or smoke? I'd prefer the smoked one. also, those of you who have fans inside your buckets...how loud does it get? I'm worried that the noise will drown out people's voices on my hearing aid and I also want to have a mic and amplifier set-up. Would this not be p...

i always thought it was supposed to be smoke also. i picked up a face sheild @ lowes and was going to just add window tinting material to it.

I carved out one of the aerators and used a nickel as a template to cut down the 2 screens. Did a test fit and it really looks good. Not bad for $2.40 for a 7 pack of screen patches ! :D http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/MrFett/clone%20trooper%20build/HPIM2655.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/alb...

I had a hard time finding sink fixtures with aerator screens big enough to use for the helmet ones. Decided to try and use screen patch material for screen doors. Going to cut them down to size, 2 per each aerator with the overlapping one rotated 45 degrees, to give it a nice pattern. Going to leave...

Does anyone know of any hobby stores in St. Clair or northern Macomb Counties? Past Time Hobbies in Port Huron is no longer around and I need 2- 25mm fans for my helmet.

I'd google it, but I'm too tired to even bother.

When I made my 41st elite. I had two fans, one sucking in one blowing out. I got some ipod speakers from the dollar store that I tore apart and used the speaker grill from that to put in my aerators. Man...I miss that costume. I need to build another...soon! :D Oh crap, I'm an idiot! :roll2: :D I c...

Wags wrote:The entire assembly. They are way too small. The clones look nothing like TK's.

Ok. No, I was just going to take the screen out of the sink ones and glue them in after i hollowed out the helmet ones.

Hmm, that's another option to think about. Basically, I just wanted a way of having 1 fan blowing inwards and another blowing outwards. I heard that it can get pretty hot in these costumes and heard the hollow aerators option is what a lot of other people do to help with air circulation.

Wags wrote:U dont want the sink ones.

forgot to ask...are you talking about the entire assembly or just the screens?

Yep, got a set with the bucket. I just wanted something that will let me blow air through them for circulation. He was saying something about needing to find a new machinist if he ever makes the aluminum ones again. Apparently, he was having problems with all the other ones.

U dont want the sink ones. They arent right. I might have a set I can send you. Stand by! Ok, thanks Wags! I had heard of people canibalizing the screens out of the plumbing hardware and using those after hollowing out the ones on the helmet. Was looking to do the same, but couldn't find any big en...

Got my bucket last week. Ordered the armor the other day...should arrive by the end of next month. Got the mouth grills and the visor section cut out. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/MrFett/clone%20trooper%20build/HPIM2646.jpg Need to find a place that has big size aerators. The ones at the ha...