Resident Evil T-Virus Canister
Here's one of the movie prop replicas I used to make. I thought I'd post some details for anyone who wants to make them for themselves. Below are links to pdf's of drawings I have made up that show all the dimensions needed to make a T-Virus canister..
The aluminum end caps were bought out from a local machine shop. All the acrylic tubing was purchased from TAP Plastics. The outer tubing was a simple cut-to-length using a chop saw. The double helix was formed by applying heat to the tubing using a heat gun and wrapping it around a 5/8 inch dowel. The helix was then cut to length using a dremel. One end of the helix is clamped shut by applying heat and squeezing shut with needle nose pliers.
The colors for the liquid is just food coloring and distilled water. For an added effect you can substitute food coloring with UV fluorescent dye!
Since the inside diameter of the helix tubing is too small to pour liquid in from the top, we have to fill it from the bottom up. In order to do this I used a syringe with a long piece of small plastic tubing attached to it. I filled up the syringe with liquid and inserted the small plastic tube all the way to the bottom of the helix. As I started filling the helix with liquid I would pull the small tubing out at the same time. Once filled I would heat up the open end and clamp it shut with the pliers.
Once you have your coils with with liquid filled and clamped off, you're ready to start assembling everything. I glue the end caps on using 5 minute two part epoxy purchased from any Lowe's or Home Depot. The epoxy has a yellow tint to it, but when it cures it turns clear. Mix and pour the epoxy into one of the aluminum end caps. Insert the outer tubing and the two helix's and let the epoxy cure. Once cured do the same with the other end cap and then you're finished and ready to display your epic awesomeness!
Merch
I thought I'd kick off 2012 by getting back into selling a few of my creations online. I notice a lot of youtubers use spreadshirt.com as their swag selling site of choice. I've also been bouncing around the idea of doing more youtube videos, but we'll see. In the meantime, take a gander at a couple of designs I've uploaded so far...
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Day 3
So far so good. Increased my liquids to stay hydrated and avoid foot cramps. No luck on that front, though. I know from doing the Master Cleanse for five days the leg cramps get pretty bad so I've decided to add vegetable soups to avoid this. On to day four!
Garage Sale
I'll be having a garage sale soon in order to minimize all the crap I have accumulated over the years. The long term goal here is to move out and get a place of my own. I really don't want to keep much. Most of the stuff I want to get rid of are things I wouldn't reallly be able to use in an apartment. So yeah, that means all my power tools are saying sayonara. I also have some electronics that I have to get rid of as well such as an oscilloscope and pulse generator. Eventually I'll sell of my sign printer as well, but not yet. I just signed up to get the square card reader for my android phone, so hopefully that will boost sales by allowing more than just cash sales. This should be interesting, I can't wait.
Purpose Found!
I finally found a purpose for my yeags.com site! I've always wanted it to be a personal site of mine, but never knew what exactly I should put on it. Now I know! I'm a pretty private person by nature, but I'm working at changing that. My goal here is to provide a record of my progress and to share my experiences with everyone. This will be more of a vlog than a blog, so I will mainly be uploading videos instead of writing articles...so keep my site bookmarked!
