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Hoggydo Community Member
Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 70 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:26 am Post subject: Advice on Battery Size/Type Please? |
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Hi Guys
Hope someone can help me here with a bit of advice on battery size/type? I purchased one of Michelles BR Blasters from the ioffer.com website and to be fair to Michelle the kit was clearly sold as having no instructions......I have dissasemled, sanded, painted etc the gun and soldered all the 5 LED's for the light box/switch etc but I don't know what size/voltage battery to use? Does anyone know/figure if it would be the same type/voltage as Sid used for his metal kits? if so does anyone know what size/voltage battery he used for those?
I would be grateful as always for any advice from those in the know!!
Thanks in advance.
Paul. |
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andy Community Guide
Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 6237 Location: Rochester, NY
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:53 am Post subject: |
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This is what I have,
p23ga 12v No.4223 alkaline
Andy |
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Hoggydo Community Member
Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 70 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:13 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Andy.....I am going to have to hope and assume that mine takes the same as noone else seems to know or want to tell what they used
Regards
Paul. |
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Gaff87 Community Member
Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 1727 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Hey Paul.
Congrats on buying a blaster.
Wish i could help but mine is a Coyle so not sure it'd be the same or not. |
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Hoggydo Community Member
Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 70 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:47 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Neil
You being from the UK too you know all about the problems that we have here getting replica prop guns like these so I was thrilled to finally have one now. Once I have it finished I will post some photos on here for people to see.......but I am well happy with it. I am going to go with Andy's suggestion over the battery size as I cant get hold of Michelle and other attemps to find out, thus far, have yielded nothing.
Hope you are keeping well mate?
Regards
Paul. |
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Gaff87 Community Member
Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 1727 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:58 am Post subject: |
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I was searching for what seemed like ever, lol.
I was lucky to get mine off someone already in the UK.
The feeling when i got one was amazing.
Can't wait to see the pics of your's all finished up.
Here's a quick pic of mine
Didn't have to do anything to it, thinking of making the paint scheme more accurate though. |
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Hoggydo Community Member
Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 70 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:49 am Post subject: |
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That looks great Neil! Thanks for adding the photo. In an ideal world I would like a full metal version but I am happy with what I have for now! I will definitely post some photos soon and, as always, I value the opinion of the guys on here, yourself included! Do you have a large collection of BR stuff? essentially the other stuff I have is the ChinYen off world money, appatment card, Vidphon card and a couple of the Deckard credit cards (one Worldcard and one of the 'Put the Green back in your wallet' cards) I also got a pretty cool opium duck and small Buddha statue (both from Ebay) and a holster for the blaster from Phil Steinschneider (who in my opinion is a lovely guy to chat and deal with by the way). My final piece is a 2019 version of the ID/Wallet from Eltee on here......He is still actually working on it though as he has had to make changes to the ID card and the other photo items as his original sets were from the pre BR Deckard 2012 era. I am patiently waiting for him to finish that for me and then I will call the collecting a day for a while!! well for at least a few weeks anyway
Cheers
Paul |
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Gaff87 Community Member
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:28 am Post subject: |
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I'd love a metal blaster aswell, maybe some day A holster aswell.
My BR collection isn't that large, compared to alot of members on here anyway.
All the items i do have i love to pieces, especially my "Leons Belongings", apartment card & VK card.
Fred & Beast are the best |
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Hoggydo Community Member
Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 70 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:39 am Post subject: |
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http://propsummit.com/upload/601/br_blaster_1_(3).jpg
Neil
Here is a quick photo of the blaster. It is minus it's lightbox whilst I try and sort out the correct type of battery and I am sure that some of the purists on here wont like the weaver knob and catch in base metal but I can always paint those later if I change my mind!!
I will post one of the finished article once I have the lights working but so far I am happy!!
Cheers
Paul. |
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Hoggydo Community Member
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Oops! No photo when I click on the link!! Will rectify and repost it!!! |
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Gaff87 Community Member
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:19 am Post subject: |
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Man, that is one sweet looking blaster! |
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joberg Community Member
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:20 am Post subject: |
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Paul you're such a tease! Still no pictures |
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Gaff87 Community Member
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:22 am Post subject: |
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joberg wrote: | Paul you're such a tease! Still no pictures |
If you copy the url and paste it into your browser it should work. |
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Hoggydo Community Member
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:28 am Post subject: |
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http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv189/Hoggydo/BRBlaster13.jpg
Ok guys try pasting this in to your browser and see if that works? Dont quite know why I can't get the photo to load directly but I will work on that whilst you guys can have a look at the blaster. All comments/criticisms welcome |
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Hoggydo Community Member
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:35 am Post subject: |
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Hi Neil
Thanks for the positive comments. It was good fun making the kit! Quite a bit of flatting/sanding with 1200 grit wet and dry paper was needed then I spot filled any pin holes/scratches with plumbers mait, resanded and then it all got 2 coats of Plastikote Primer. The final black finish was plastikote Satin Black (not as shiny as others I looked at) then the grip butt plate was done in Plastikote Aluminium. The wiring was pretty straight forward for the 5 LED's, now all I need is to get a battery and fix the battery holder in situ and away we go!! replicants in Guildford beware!!
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Gaff87 Community Member
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:46 am Post subject: |
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Hoggydo wrote: | replicants in Guildford beware!! |
Haha...love it. |
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propsjonnyb Community Member
Joined: 16 Jul 2009 Posts: 476 Location: Helmdon, Northamptonshire UK
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:21 pm Post subject: Suitable Batteries |
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Firastly you need to know the ratings for the LED's if you don't know them or aren't up to using a test meter, don't dispair , most 3mm LED's operate around 20milliamps so start with a 3v Lithium CR2 Duracell or any other equivalent , then move to 6v if the three doesn't work or is very dim the move up to 12v however, if there is no resistor in the circuit don't go to 12 v with out adding say a 10k ohm resistor to the positive lead of the battery. This won't do any harm to the circuit and will extend your battery life . Hope this helps! |
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