What am I doing?

Working on a steampunk styled flash drive.

I started with tearing apart a small drive, to look at the size of the circuitry etc, to determine size scale of my new drive. I cut a piece of copper tubing and warmed it with a torch, so that I could then flatten it a little with a hammer into an oval shaped tube. Afterwards, I wonder if I could make some kind of mandrel into it to help keep the shape even throughout. It was a bit tricky. If anyone has ideas /advice to contribute, please feel free to add it in the comments.

The pipe was left over from another art piece from a few years ago, where I had drilled holes at regular intervals to weave thinner wire. Unfortunately that piece got lost in the basement sewer backup. Anyway..off on a tangent….

I began soldering some pieces of wire and small nuts, screws etc to it. (I know my soldering technique needs work, again, I’m very open to helpful suggestions). I also only had some very fat solder, so I don’t know if that is part of the problem. Laura, we forgot to go back to pick up that smaller stuff…(what was my last post about..distractions? lol)

I wrapped some of the wire with thinner wire as well, because I like the way that looks. The propeller is going to go in the bottom end cap anda small jewel bead is going on the remaining open hole. That’s where the LED shines through when the drive is in use.

Will add another pic when I get it done.