On this episode of make it real, one day build edition, we're going to try and make a functional
Han Solo DL 44 blaster.
Now, one of the most common questions I get asked is how do i come up with these ideas?
They're obviously from movies or video games, but where do i get the inspiration to actually
build it in real life?
And honestly its just from the world around me
It's just how my brain works
I see how things work and I just want to start combining them mentally in my head.
I think it's called low-latent inhibition.
For example, last Sunday i was wandering around a hardware store...
Wait a sec....
When I discovered that you can buy flare guns!
Naturally, I bought a few thinking it might be useful for some kind of project.
When i get back to the shop, I started thinking that a flare gun shooting almost looks like
a blaster from star wars.
Since Solo just came out, I figured it was worth a shot.
Now if you haven't guessed by my name, the Hacksmith, I like hacking components together.
We almost always start with some kind of existing base for our project,
Whether its a flare gun, or Nerf gun, or replica Thors hammer.
There's no point reinventing the wheel after all, but the challenge when using something
pre existing is being able to design the modifications in CAD.
One of the tricks we use to help us is simply by taking a top down picture of the part we
want to design.
Once we have that, we bring it in to Solidworks which is the Cad software that we use.
We scale the image and now we can trace over the image to make a 2D representation of the part.
We've done this for many of our many projects, and its something you can do with almost any
CAD software without needing a fancy 3D scanner or anything.
Even though we have fancy 3D scanner for some more complex designs we do.
And now that we have this outline, lets start making Hans Blaster!
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Now back to our blaster one day build.
It's starting to look like a gun!
I mean, it always looked like a gun....
Is that what you want Tony? Elon?!?
My measurement was slightly off, so I'm just gonna try to get that right on.
I've already adjusted the drawing, so let's laser cut another one!
OW
*Laughter*
We are using our Maverick CNC plasma cutter that we got from Elite Metal Tools.
EMT helps you find the right tools to make something great.
Alright, let's see if this fits
Alright, so we're gonna have to chamfer these edges.
So we actually got this in the
mail recently from the inventor himself who invented the restorer tool, so lets see what it can do.
The names Solo.
Hack- Solo.
Nah just kidding.
but im really happy on how this one day build came out.
I think it looks really similar to the one in the movie.
And im really happy with we were able to do with such a short amount of time.
the funny thing is it might of only taken one day to build, its taken a week to produce this video.
Anyways the question you guys are all asking is does it actually work? and yeah, its a flare gun, so lets go test this.
But before we do that, make sure you hit that Subscribe button and ring that notification
bell because you're not going to want and miss the next video on this.
where we test it to its limits by actually shooting things and blowing stuff up.
Including a death star!
Hey Owen, did you put the gas in the death star?
Alright, so make sure you're subscribed because you're not gonna wanna miss us blowing up the death star.
Now obviously we aren't going to have Owen holding the death star in the garage while we shoot
it, because that would be irresponsible.
So we are actually gonna go to a friends farm on some private property and that's where
Owen is going to hold the death star while we shoot it.
And a big thank you to Leather Madness for sending this cool Solo jacket, anyways, lets go shoot that Death Star.