Cut that boy up
JGattonII !!
You better bet I will be,
BudaFett! I just have to
finish up my EE-3 first...and then maybe a helmet or so (I actually have 3 unfinished scratch-builds sitting within eyesight of me right know)... but who knows what else may spark my interest!?! =)
Nice find, Thanks for the offer. The tube thing that sticks out... what is its diameter, inside and out. If my build is way off I ma make another, Here is what I made...
Thank you SPY007. Unfortunately, I don't know an easy way to answer your question so I've tried to provide enough information to hopefully make up for that!
The first thing to keep in mind is that the internal shape of the holster is irregular w/ various ribs & protrusions (seemingly designed to help center/secure the speargun) which would need to be taken into account. I've tried to highlight two of the key ones in the second picture below.
With that said, I thought that perhaps the easiest way to give you some type of measurement would be to shove a few different-sized tubes inside to see just how big I could go without causing the holster to deform in any way. The pipe I ended with had a 27mm diameter and is pictured below; note that it is being cradled very tightly between the two parallel ribs (where the only one visible is again highlighted in red).
Just for kicks and giggles, here's another picture where I'm shining a flashlight down the tube to highlight how tightly it's fitting.
Lastly, in case it may be helpful for this build or another down the road, I wanted to provide some reference to the upper portion of the holster's general shape. In short, I cobbled together a template based upon a cross-section of the holster as indicated below in red.
Here you can see where the finished template was inserted into the holster for reference. I mean, it's not watertight or anything (especially given the hole I included to make it easier to remove) but it is at least fitting snugly enough to stay in place on its own. At any rate, I then scanned the paper template to my PC and used that to create/attach both a png file as well as a pdf