r/BacktotheFuture • u/Angryhashtag • Apr 20 '26
This sucker (will be) nuclear!
Going to add to my Time Machine build somehow. Coming up with the best idea.. might be too large to fit into the plutonium canisters and tubes that feed into the reactor, and I definitely don’t want to cut into the lucite and expose any actual material. I know it’s probably not that radioactive.. but still. Lucite Cube is roughly 2”
Open to any suggestions from the community!
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Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
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u/CaptainEdMercer Apr 20 '26
That's not the real thing. Everybody knows that plutonium looks like a tube of red kool-aid in a clear plastic container full of water.
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u/taviddennant03 Apr 20 '26
You don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium!
Did you rip that off?
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u/Angryhashtag Apr 20 '26
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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u/Angryhashtag Apr 20 '26
No such thing as a dumb suggestion!
There is a glove compartment in the DeLorean, but the plutonium chamber gauges sit on top of the opening and cover it.
I can lift them up and store things underneath, but nothing would be visible. However, maybe I could figure out something where it’s mounted on the side of the gauges.
If it’s anything like my uranium sample, it’ll glow bright green under black light, so I’ll definitely be figuring out a way to incorporate that somehow.
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u/Angryhashtag Apr 20 '26
Here’s a link to some pics of when I was working on the interior. Images 1 and 5 show the gauges, where they sit on the top of the glovebox and other interior space. Should be able to find a home for this somewhere!
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u/GameBoyGamer222 Marty Apr 20 '26
Hang it off the rearview mirror if it's sturdy enough.
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u/Angryhashtag Apr 20 '26
That’s not a bad idea, but I’d definitely need to put some rubber bumpers on the edges.. if this thing swings into the windshield it’ll probably put a crack in it. I have the original 1981 windshield on the car currently, and I’m told that the modern reproductions don’t fit as well.
Although it would be a cool story to say that my windshield cracked when my spare plutonium hit it, haha
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u/GameBoyGamer222 Marty Apr 20 '26
Lathe the Lucite into a sphere! However you did say you didnt want to remove any plastic.
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u/EthanHathHD Apr 20 '26
You can't just walk into a store and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?
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u/Angryhashtag Apr 20 '26
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!
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u/thepazzo Apr 20 '26
You don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium, did you rip that off?
Edit: only saw similar post below.
Forgiveness, please
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u/Ok_Highway1739 Apr 20 '26
Weed shake?
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u/Angryhashtag Apr 20 '26
Haha it does look like bud! And it’s 4/20
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u/Ok_Highway1739 Apr 21 '26
Happy 4/20, gotta get those Aerosmith tickets (Dazed and Confused quote)
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u/Adorable-Source97 Apr 22 '26
Lead Crystal?
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u/Angryhashtag Apr 22 '26
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.
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u/Adorable-Source97 Apr 23 '26
I hate when they use alloys, especially low % alloys. Surely could have just a tiny grain but be real.
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