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How can I get a franken-turret?
1 of 12: Before you start on that, take a moment to make some progress on the Smash TV achievement by damaging Wheatley's monitor.
2 of 12: Looking across the chasm and into the second test chamber section, you'll see a button pedestal and a tube.
3 of 12: You're going to need to use the excursion funnel to get across to the button pedestal's ledge, so put an orange portal on the wall where the funnel is hitting it, then look for a place to put the blue portal.
4 of 12: None of the portal-friendly surfaces in the second chamber section are useful right now, so look across to the wall with the exit door on it.
5 of 12: It has portal-friendly sections close to the floor on both sides of the exit door. However, if you try putting the blue portal under Wheatley's monitor, you'll see that you can't use it to cross the abyss because of the metal framework that's in the way.
6 of 12: So put the blue portal on the lowest part of the portal-friendly wall section that's to the right of the exit door.
7 of 12: You'll then be able to step into the extended funnel and ride it across to the button pedestal's ledge. (Note that depending on exactly where the blue portal is, you may have to edge around some junk on the way.)
8 of 12: As in the previous chamber, pressing the pedestal's button will drop a franken-turret into the abyss.
9 of 12: You'll need to put your blue portal on one of the portal-friendly sections on the side walls so that a dropped franken-turret will land on the extended funnel.
10 of 12: Look to the left while facing the button pedestal, then relocate the blue portal to the leftmost portal-friendly wall section. You can then press the button to get a franken-turret dropped into the extended funnel.
11 of 12: After the franken-turret is pressed up against the wall opposite the blue portal, move the blue portal onto the small portal-friendly wall section that faces your ledge so that the franken-turret will be carried over to it.
12 of 12: You can then go over and pull the franken-turret out of the funnel, or you can relocate the funnel and let the franken-turret drop onto the ledge.
