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edvallie · Posted: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:35:11 Post Subject:

It's going to be a giant flying eyeball?

LaTech · Posted: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:46:15 Post Subject:

Some people have no class...

it's the Heart of Gold from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

(jk about the class part)

HackaX0rus · Posted: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:26:18 Post Subject:

edvallie · Posted: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:34:30 Post Subject:

CHollman82 · Rated R Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 73

Instead of that you should make it the deathstar, that would be 1337er. Anyways, you could make it out of fiberglass. You would have to find or make a mold for it though (a giant rubber ball?) and then cut it in half when it sets to get it off the mold. You could sand that down and paint it with car paint and airbrush it, it would look nice, expensive though. That would also be very light yet sturdy and easy to cut.

Also, carbon fiber, if you have the money it would look awesome.

LaTech · Posted: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:52:09 Post Subject:

Just got a quote back from a metal spinning company to make the metal sphere...$450 for 1 sphere in 2 halves. I can't afford that, so it's back to the drawing board.

I thought about fiberglass, but I've never worked with the stuff...so that makes the project that much harder.

CHollman82 · Rated R Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 73

The more work you do yourself the more money you save, as I am sure you found out with that estimate lol. Don't have someone make the sphere for you, prices for that kind of thing are always unreasonable. I wanted to get my wheels chromed because I liked the ones that came with my car but they were just aluminum and it would have cost more to chrome than to buy chrome wheels Confused

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:27:53 Post Subject:

My suggestion would be to try and get a ball about the size you want. Then forum some fiberglass around it.

Will be a lot of work, and might have a failure or two... but it would me a lot cheaper and would be a great sense of pride. (And I'm sure if you document all the way through BB would be happy to put up an article on it)

CHollman82 · Rated R Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 73

dadx2mj · Posted: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:51:41 Post Subject:

That technique has been around forever. We used to do that years ago as kids with a balloon and paper mache to make pinyattas.