here's what I ended up with, I went to a couple of places and noodles don't seem to be in right now... I did find a toy sword made out of foam, thanks to the great manufacturing the glue holding the inner shaft snapped and I then had a hollow piece of foam, I cut a slit for the gear struts to go up in and figure I can zip tie it to hold it in place.. shaped a bit with the dremel which sucked.. I think this should work