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Now you will finish up putting your
inlet fitting on the air line, the
male 110 V 2 prong plug to your
electric line and solder or crimp
clamp your small cord end from the
tape player that goes to the back
of your dummy.
When you hang your dummy up make
sure you zip tie your air, electric
and steel cord together to prepare
for the rope wrapping. And be sure
to use a heavy gauge eye bolt in
the gallows for the steel cord, as
this guy jerks pretty hard against
the connections.
 This
is a look at our boy once fitted
with a head and dressed. I simply
put 3 wraps of rope around the
gallows that hid the eye bolt he is
hanging from as well as the air
line and electrical cord that is
routed out of the gallows at
exactly the same point, and stapled
it in place on top. Then, laying
the rope against the bundled and
zip-tied together group of air
line, electric and steel cord to
bulk out the "noose" I wrapped the
rope around the very top of the
bundle as tight as I could without
crushing the air line and continued
the wrap to the bottom of the
bundle then zip-tied it off. Then
with another separate section of
rope, I wrapped a single line
around his neck that was then cut
off where it met at the back of his
neck, just overlapping about 2
inches and then zip-tied together.
Now he will be fully removable as
mentioned earlier, from his grim
fate. The wig head was covered
using a simple sand bag from Harbor
Freight Tools that was sewn rounded
instead of square which would also
look great too. Then I cut and
shredded the ends of the excess
part of the bag. Use a wire brush
to shred cloth for a fast and
really worn look.
Stage Hands were attached to
the end of the arms with about 3
screws apiece, then tied with the
same heavy hemp rope we used to
hang him with and wrap in a cross
across his chest. You will need to
buy 30 feet of rope to do
everything.
 When
we dressed our jerk we used a long
sleeve shirt under the over shirt
so I can add not only layering to
soften the shape of the skeleton
underneath, but also to cover up
the crap load of machinations
inside. I screwed the undershirt to
the stomach uprights up by the
chest joints to keep it taught and
then tucked in the bottom and
screwed through the pants and shirt
to the waist to keep the small slit
you see here centered over the
motion detector window. In the low
light he will be in this will look
like nothing more than a holy
shirt, but if the undershirt had
been black, it would have been
totally stealth. With the over
shirt open at the bottom, it hangs
just right to keep this area clear.
Here is a look at the finished
product up close. Even on top of
this guy, you can't tell the
skeleton hasn't been padded around
the chest or stomach area, meaning
you can keep the entire chest
cavity open air inside and staying
cool during operation. Here is
another little detail I decided to
add once
 I
had him functioning nicely. I
attached black braided fishing line
which is totally invisible in even
dim light, to the gallows and to
each side of his hips. One line is
shorter than the other, so when he
begins to thrash the left side hits
the end of the line first, pulling
the dummy to the left until it
slaps against the end of the right
line which whips him back to the
right. So his movements aren't just
his legs going up and down, the
whole body is thrashing against the
grips of death.
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And here is the Lynching in his
full gory. After this many set
backs, it was very rewarding seeing
him work this well. His movements
and sound were very satisfactory
and his looks were convincing
enough to make you sort of queazy
while watching him squirm and
eventually die! Success! I hope you
have a very smooth road to your
project and if you build your own
version of this guy, please email
me a photo of the finished product
to put up on my website here for
others to see as well. See the
video of the Lynching
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Rest In Pieces,
Death Lord
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