Taking Apart the Existing Communication Towers Without Damaging the Base

 
I also had to take apart the communication towers on the towers very carefully, to avoid damage to the lower parts which were more solid.

 I was also trying to work out a way to run a threaded shaft through the dead centre.

This involved very careful drilling.

I started by trying to break a glued square connection at the base of the tower by tapping a thin screwdriver into the glued joint to try and crack it.

The removed central shaft looked like it was worth keeping.

Having released the upper section, I tried to drill down into the central nerf gun multi shot clip disc base,

This has a revolving pivot inside I wanted to keep but also had to drill through.

I did not have a pillar drill so had to do this very carefully and slowly to avoid breaking the parts using a step drill bit to do one diametre at a time more gently.

I tried to use a step drill but the problem was there was a rivet and a spring in the centre which I had to drill through and push out. This left an interlocking set of shafts.

Once there was a hole running though 9mm I used a 10mm tapping kit to make a sewed threaded shaft.

Later I used a dowel making hollow drill bit to remove the centre having managed to extract the central screw instead with more success.

Taking Apart Tower 2

Having worked out a much more refined down component combination for the communication towers I then started to take part the second tower in a safer and more efficient ay having learned from the first attempt.

This started with the use of a dowel drilling bit I thought could cut and drill around the internal screw that have been in a central Nerf gun component, rather than through it.

Instead, drilling through this pulled off the orange end with the screw, then tried to unscrew it having now gained access to it, that had not been available before.

I used a stepper drill to drill through delicate cog like toothed parts I had duplicated of towards the base.

Any shiny and smooth surfaces were also sanded to roughen up the aid glueing.

I used a stepper drill to drill through delicate cog like toothed parts I had duplicated of towards the base.

My Finn Multimaster with a mini plunge saw attachment, was used to clean the glue from the inside of the square base.

This was in the Nerf circular round clip that was above the Dyson Cyclone generators, forming the transmitter towers base.