Down and Dirty Dually

[steve-o]

Being on a rather tight budget these days, (wify’s birthday coming up..) I thought I would try a cheap ‘n ugly approach using odds-n-ends ‘n pieces of junk I have lying around the shop..
Welcome to my Frankenstein build
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The diodes and lenses came in!! Thanks guys!
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Hmm.. here’s some metalwork ..maybe this’ll do the trick..
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Drill ‘em out..
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Mount ‘em in..
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Light em up.

[logsquared]

I like your audiophile grade driver

[steve-o]

I like your audiophile grade driver

Thanks. It's not real fast but at least it is analog

[steve-o]

Next ..

OK, lenses. Hmm. Get the hacksaw out, fab a piece and mount them lenses.. lessee, what kind of glue do I have around here. Oh, this looks good. black speaker-cone glue. (since I'm going with the audiofile approach ..
(hope I dont ruin the new lenses ) ..
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[allthatwhichis]

[steve-o]

Thanks Allthat. I was definitely trying to avoid seeing the dreaded "THIS THREAD IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT .." smiley .

[steve-o]

OK. Time to test ..
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[steve-o]

Of course! Throw a roof prizm from an old pair of binoculars up there
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[allthatwhichis]

OK. Time to test ..
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There is no fixing the "line"... that is what it comes out as... nasty fast axis. It is much more a beam show laser than a graphics laser; I know this will disappoint you.

Here is the Kvant 445 at 50 feet.

[steve-o]

I'm too slow. You got your post up there before I could edit in my last pic . .