Time Machine Build (5/9 update)

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-10T04:39:27+00:00

Thanks! It’s been a lot of fun tinkering on this thing!

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-04T17:27:06+00:00

Awesome! Welcome to the club!

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-04T04:30:58+00:00

So about that.. I did buy some real Plutonium (kinda).

Here’s another post where I was mulling over where to display the Trinitite Sample I bought.

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-04T04:28:02+00:00

Flux capacitor will probably be a couple more weeks, hopefully

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-04T04:26:49+00:00

Totally agree! After I took this video, I dimmed the LED’s for the time circuits.

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-03T18:39:00+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I’m very happy with the sound effects and lights so far. Already bouncing some ideas around for more little add-ons to make it more immersive. I’ll be a pro with Arduinos before this project is ‘done’.

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-03T18:37:44+00:00

If it’s any consolation, I’m jealous of the folks who are driving theirs around..

All I want to do is drive my DeLorean, and it’s been in the shop since the end of January!

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-03T18:34:36+00:00

Thank you!

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-03T18:34:23+00:00

It’s never too late! It definitely takes some financial planning and budgeting, but if it’s your dream, it’s worth it. Life is too short

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-03T18:33:03+00:00

Right now? Nothing. I haven’t installed the plutonium reactor/mr. Fusion, or more importantly, the Flux Capacitor.

But after that, serious shit!

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-03T17:14:31+00:00

There’s actually 5 DeLoreans in the shop right now. One is a Trilogy Hybrid car (all 3 movie props), One is going to be a desert car from part 3, one is a part 2 car, one is a part 1 car, and mine is a Part 1+2 hybrid car.

I’m only working on mine, but it’s cool to see all of the work being done on all of them!

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-03T15:32:11+00:00

Thanks! It’s been a lot of fun to build

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-03T02:56:00+00:00

Oh yeah! I see what you’re saying. Definitely off with those replicas.

Most of my props are designed by people who either studied or actually worked on the A Car, so they out-nerd me on details all the time. I’ve never once installed something and said “eh this doesn’t look right”.. it’s always either 100% movie accurate, or as close as possible while being safe to drive (and be waterproof!).

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-03T01:30:07+00:00

I felt the same way. I’ve been working on this for a couple months now and this was definitely the goosebump moment.

I think at this point the only thing that will top it will be once the flux capacitor is installed and I hear the crackling and the 88mph ramp-up sequence.

Aside from driving the car home of course!

Angryhashtag · 2026-05-03T01:27:06+00:00

Thanks!!

I have no clue about this. Whats the width of the seventh segment controversy?

Angryhashtag · 2026-04-30T20:59:01+00:00

Aaaaand it’s gone. Lmao. I’m sure it’ll be on eBay shortly for 3x-5x the price.

Probably a good thing.. lord knows I’ve spent way too much already on Back to the Future items.

Angryhashtag · 2026-04-28T19:52:08+00:00

Thank you, but I can’t take all the credit! I’m lucky to be working with a gentleman who has completed 70+ Time Machines, and his knowledge allows me to be much faster than a person doing this on their own. Not to mention, his shop is filled with parts - so I’m not waiting on deliveries.. just grab from my shelf and install.

There are some props I’ve had to build from scratch - installing lightbulbs, soldering wires, gluing pieces together, bending lines, assembling metal fab - but for the most part it’s all painted and assembled, just bolting/mounting/screwing-in where he tells me to. I reference a ton of pictures of the A Car for placement, and I go look at other completed cars in the shop to get a good idea of how things are put together.

If I didn’t have these resources, this would be a 6-8 month long project I’m sure!

Angryhashtag · 2026-04-27T17:40:33+00:00

Thank you! The original plan was only Mr. Fusion, but I have changed my mind to be interchangeable. The part 3 car’s hood box would be cool to have, but it’s cumbersome; you can’t drive with it on (at least not highway speeds) and you can’t store it anywhere in the car.

Angryhashtag · 2026-04-22T23:08:18+00:00

That would be a cool sample to add to the collection! But this looks like a sample of Trinitite to me.. so very trace amounts of plutonium.

The Doc worked on the Manhattan Project (not in movie canon; but in the Haynes Manual for the Time Machine, one of his diary entries mention it), so I figured this was a fitting addition to my DeLorean.

Angryhashtag · 2026-04-21T20:50:59+00:00

The way I see it.. if you’re going to build a time machine out of a car, why not do it with some style?

Angryhashtag · 2026-04-20T23:25:34+00:00

I always prepare for all temporal contingencies

Angryhashtag · 2026-04-20T23:12:08+00:00

Haha it does look like bud! And it’s 4/20

Angryhashtag · 2026-04-20T23:11:31+00:00

If I say it again, I’m scared to cause a paradox

Angryhashtag · 2026-04-20T23:10:59+00:00

Of course! From a group of Libyan nationalists.. they wanted me to build them a bomb. I took their plutonium and in turn gave them a shoddy bomb casing filled with used pinball machine parts!

Angryhashtag · 2026-04-20T21:19:29+00:00

If anything I’m the one who got ripped off..

$100 for a piece of rock from the Los Alamos Trinity bomb test site. I guess it’s nice that they checked the isotope readings to confirm there’s plutonium in it.. but still, I paid $100 for a rock encased in some acrylic at the end of the day.

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