my ghetto laser saber

[wesdaman14]

well i went to my high school and they had some old lights that they were replacing. im talking about the long tube light w/e there called. so i took one home with me. i took one end off and, filled it with water to clean the inside. it had some sort of white paste on the inside. i used a rag and a stick and cleaned it all up so the tube was clear. i then put an incense stick inside of it to make smoke,or so it would glow.
heres the results using a 50mw green and a 10mw blu ray.

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[styropyro]

Nice pictures! Your camera picks up the blu-ray color pretty good.

 

[FireMyLaser]

I don't think you should open fluorescent tubes/bulbs because of the mercury inside. It's sort of deadly...

Neat tho! ;D

 

[wesdaman14]

Nice pictures! Your camera picks up the blu-ray color pretty good.

lol thanks,but my camera sucks at getting br pics. it always looks blue. thats where the thread about the blu ray camera's comes in handy.

 

[Omega]

yeah, that "white paste" was a phosphor. what makes it glow. and i hope you know those contain mercury...
neat idea though.

 

[Davo]

yeah, that "white paste" was a phosphor. what makes it glow. and i hope you know those contain mercury...
neat idea though.

He posted this thread up, he must be doing fine.

 

[Maven]

have you guys every herd the term "mad as a hatter" ? it comes from a long time ago they used to put mercury on velvet hats to make them shiny ... the fumes kinda drove people crazy and thus the phrase ...

edit: like alice and wonder land ...

 

[myles]

I think I'm gonna make 1 out of a black light tube =]

 

[Kenom]

Dude, it's not that expensive to buy the cheaper version of the real lasersaber. I just got my lasersaber-e in the mail today. He sent me just the blade so I could make it work for my Kryton laser barrels. Works AWESOME.

 

[el-taco]

Sweet dude, looks awesome!

Also, hope you didnt get much mercury on you. Reply soon so I know you arent dead

 

[brtaman]

Hah fools...

Mercury doesn't make you go crazy...*twitch* *twitch* *wink* *wink* muahahahahahahaha *twitch* *twitch*

don't ask me how I know :-/ [smiley=evil.gif]

Seriously though thats some bad stuff, hope you took at least some precaution handling the stuff?


brtaman

 

[moond0ggie]

Nice, but................
you won't have much fun with the glass tube,

The good news is that for around $3. you can get a 4 ft. clear plastic tube at Home Depot
Lowes or other hardware retailer that sells fluorescent tube lamps.
They are made  to cover the glass tube lights to protect from glass
breakage in open lamp fixtures.

Heres some examples..............

http://www.covershield.co.uk/lamp cover.htm
http://www.lightcovers.co.uk/fluorescenttubecover.htm
http://www.creativelightings.com/default.asp

 

[wesdaman14]

yeah i went to home depot and seen the plastic that goes around it to protect it. it was like 3$. @ Kenom: this was a free experiment. And yes i know about mercury. i used gloves to protect my self.

 

[Dr_Evil]

You may have used gloves to keep it from going through your skin. I bet you still breathed some of the airborne particals in though. I hope you washed your hands too. You wouldn't want the mercury transferring over to the food you ate or anything like that.

 

[wesdaman14]

what can happen if i had gotten mercury on arms ???

 

[Maven]

it would absorb in through your skin into your body