 It's part two of the solid gold Xbox controller odyssey and by the end of this video We are planning to be done, but we definitely have some problems to solve not with this piece mind you But with some of the other ones the shoulder buttons for example used to have plastic linking them so now there's no give Are they gonna press properly? We don't think so so we need to figure that out the battery cover well it used to have plastic clips that fit in a thing and Now it doesn't go in either so we're gonna have to solve that problem, too Furthermore the entire fit and finish of this thing. I mean Obviously we can't just screw it together the way we used to how do we join it? We're thinking laser welding, but I Mean is it gonna fit together okay? 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I was gonna be losing throughout the grinding and finishing work Thankfully we worked out something where we were gonna weigh the finished piece and then go based on that for pricing Whoo before we can do any of that though we discovered some small holes in the gold controller which need to be filled and Honestly, I'm kind of glad they're there because getting to see this process was super cool freaking lasers, baby This is the Rofen star weld DX and at first I assumed that it was just kind of like a Fancy way to solder or something like that, but no this thing is capable of shooting up to an 8 Kilowatt laser pulse that will instantly melt the metal that it strikes So basically you'll line up this filler wire and your part with the crosshair in the microscope Put the pedal to the metal and bang you're welding Mechanically, it's quite similar to arc welding even using an argon assist gas But instead of using electricity to melt the metal you're using coherent light With the holes filled it was time to decide on a texture for our finished surface now one of the best things about the new generation Xbox controllers is just how grippy they are and Although the casting was able to retain a shocking amount of that fine detail. Well, we've got a couple of problems First of all, the surface is going to have to end up smooth wherever the sprues were attached and it's unlikely That our factory texture would have survived the polishing that was required to get a shiny finish anyway So we decided to go with a custom texture The Goldsmith Henry here showed us two test textures on the inside of the battery cover and let us pick One of them he described as snake lightning and the other is more like a hammered or golf ball finish Now we assumed that these were finishes that he like applies regularly But it turns out that this process is actually more art than science Apparently he just kind of looks at the surface of whatever came out of the casting and does what feels right Anyway, the snakes spoke to me So that's the texture that we're going to end up using for the entire piece to look cohesive though A little bit of planning is required in this case laying out the rough lines to follow using a Sharpie and like I know they do this every day and I trust their workmanship But I still really struggled watching the first few marker lines and bits of grinding because to my untrained eye It kind of felt like halfway through a Bob Ross tutorial where the canvas still looks like a blob of happy green and brown accidents full credit, but once it's done It looks so good. Oh my god, that looks so awesome Oh, man We had some concerns about the shoulder buttons because we thought this piece in the middle would have to flex because it normally would be made of plastic But they actually work like fine. They're awesome. Nah, it'll be fine Don't you stress Alex as cool as snake lightning looks though It's more of an accent finish than what we want everywhere For the top we want that classic smooth bling-tastic mirror finish and Achieving this is no mean feat given how many imperfections are left behind by the casting process So in order to get there we start with what's called a porosity hammer. See that? It spins So what it's doing then is many times a second it's hitting or Hammering the higher parts of the material and then spreading them into the lower parts creating a an almost perfectly flat surface Now because our part was so big Hendry actually had to put aside some of the porosity hammers that he's already created for himself and make a custom one out of this screw He told us this wasn't cool. I was like you make your own rotary tools. What do you mean? That's not cool Of course, that's not enough to get to the bottom of the screen What do you mean? That's not cool. Of course, that's not enough to get the mirror shine. So we also need some love from The polishing wheel brothers over here. So it was porosity hammer polishing wheels porosity hammer polishing wheels Rinse and repeat for oh about a day and a half due to the size of the part One thing you might have picked up on at this point is that you know The outside of this xbox controller and all of the parts are made out of plastic, which is not electrically conductive Whereas the gold one is pretty much as electrically conductive as possible. So I need to make sure that we won't have any shorts or anything So i'm going to come in here with the good old acrylic conformal coating and just Give her a blast So now we just do that like four or five more times another problem that I noticed is that the battery connectors Come up like this and if it's touching the gold again, you're going to have short problems and I think even informal coating it Won't do us enough good. Now one big plus is that I ordered a Rechargeable battery and that one you don't have to do this end which is much harder to deal with We only need the two contact points So I think As long as we do the conformal coating and then we just add in some electrical tape on the side inside here We should be fine final assembly time Now that i've got the trigger buttons on the plan was actually just to test fit these pieces And this one but this piece is so finicky to get on and off that i'm sorry guys We're just we're not going to see that process on video because we don't want to do any more damage to these little plastic Nubbins here the thing is when you're putting plastic on plastic There's a lot of give you can kind of slide things over each other and they don't destroy each other with metal There's no such give so there's a strong risk of just breaking things off So we're just gonna we're gonna leave it the way that it is Another concern that we had was fatigue failure So gold is particularly prone to this you do the same thing with it over and over and over again in like these Micro cracks form until finally just it comes apart But looking at how little flex honestly alex I don't think it's going to be a problem. Yeah, I think that's fine and the buttons feel Surprisingly good like we had concerns about these springs being strong enough because it weighs so much more Kind of like on a gaming keyboard, right? If you put a metal key on top of a cherry mx switch it dramatically changes the actuation force here Feels great Listen to that clack though Now comes the most fragile piece basically they told me As soon as you touch this it no longer has a perfect finish anymore. I'm like, oh, okay. No pressure or anything Put my gloves on really. There's nothing that makes me feel more inadequate than a one size fits all glove Oh, come on baby. You can go one there. Okay. All right All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, let's get it. Let's get it assembled Okay Now these screws were originally meant to go into plastic last thing we want to do is like over torque it here All buttons work on the on the top of it. Let's try the face Everything's good This is very promising Okay This one is going to be tricky because you got these little Tabbing nubbing things here and again remember plastic on plastic flexible metal on plastic not flexible metal on metal Super not flexible kind of need it to See you got these pieces that go in over here Never given this much thought to it. Wow does it get It just went right on Were you expecting that? Yep Oh I made it so it would stick on more Oh, okay Last piece Bottom cover This one's a little trickier because remember this is the part that got a little mangled When there wasn't enough gold in the mold uh, oh That's okay alex do you have gloves? Okay, get get some gloves it's so heavy Oh, wow I knew it would be heavy, but it's so heavy. I know right Even holding the individual pieces of it is like, you know, this thing's pretty heavy And the clack the clack So good I know right as brutal and painful as this is guys. We're gonna do the glam montage now Okay before we mess it up, but the actual experience of trying it We're gonna get everyone in the office to try it out. 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We've got lots of crazy projects we've done over the years this This might just take the gold medal though, uh, hey got him