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A few years ago, we had a very small LED lantern that the batteries had corroded in and ruined. So of course, I took it all apart. One of the interesting pieces was the very top of the lantern, its shape reminded me of the Star Ship Enterprise, and so it became a new future project. This week I began to bring this new project to life. You have to have all the parts of course to make a complete project so I began digging through my bins and boxes and bags to find engines, an antenna, a fuselage, and decorations to trim it all out. From the top down these are the parts that I used to make the Enterprise. The main body (disc) of the ship is as I said the top of a small LED lantern. The top cupola is a control push button from an old Direct TV DVR. The middle of the disc is a metal ring taken from a hard drive motor, and then capped with some copper sheet. The picture does not show it, but there is a small ring and dome under the disc that they fired the photon torpedoes from. That is made from a small plastic ring taken from the neck of a super glue tube and the dome is a copper ball sawn in half. I cut a piece of redwood to attach the disc to the fuselage. The engines are made from the tips of two long lighters. I inserted a polished brass tube into each engine to make then “pop” a little and capped the ends with copper balls sawn in half. The engines are attached to the fuselage by specialty brass tubing that is made to shape. The fuselage is made from the lens of the LED lantern and the tail of the fuselage is a unique looking plastic piece from a scavenged Water Pik. In the tail of the fuselage is the burner from one of the long lighters and the antenna dish was made from an upholstery tack attached to a brass fitting that I took from an old ceramic water faucet shutoff handle. The ship is mounted on a piece of redwood that I tried to fashion into the Star Trek logo. The decals I made using MS Word and printing them onto clear label material. That is it for this week’s work.

Description
A few years ago, we had a very small LED lantern that the batteries had corroded in and ruined. So of course, I took it all apart. One of the interesting pieces was the very top of the lantern, its shape reminded me of the Star Ship Enterprise, and so it became a new future project. This week I began to bring this new project to life. You have to have all the parts of course to make a complete project so I began digging through my bins and boxes and bags to find engines, an antenna, a fuselage, and decorations to trim it all out. From the top down these are the parts that I used to make the Enterprise. The main body (disc) of the ship is as I said the top of a small LED lantern. The top cupola is a control push button from an old Direct TV DVR. The middle of the disc is a metal ring taken from a hard drive motor, and then capped with some copper sheet. The picture does not show it, but there is a small ring and dome under the disc that they fired the photon torpedoes from. That is made from a small plastic ring taken from the neck of a super glue tube and the dome is a copper ball sawn in half. I cut a piece of redwood to attach the disc to the fuselage. The engines are made from the tips of two long lighters. I inserted a polished brass tube into each engine to make then “pop” a little and capped the ends with copper balls sawn in half. The engines are attached to the fuselage by specialty brass tubing that is made to shape. The fuselage is made from the lens of the LED lantern and the tail of the fuselage is a unique looking plastic piece from a scavenged Water Pik. In the tail of the fuselage is the burner from one of the long lighters and the antenna dish was made from an upholstery tack attached to a brass fitting that I took from an old ceramic water faucet shutoff handle. The ship is mounted on a piece of redwood that I tried to fashion into the Star Trek logo. The decals I made using MS Word and printing them onto clear label material. That is it for this week’s work.