The Probe Droid Resin Kit Instructions Tread

[jedimaster]

Hey Jason did ya get that disc I sent ya?

 

[moffeaton]

YES! Crap, sorry - I literally have about a hundred emails I'm catching up on and everyone thinks I'm ignoring them while I slog though. MANY thanks!!

 

[jedimaster]

Snob!!!:lol

 

[moffeaton]

LOL! :lol

 

[Rats]

Jason, I don't think I'll be ALL styrene, as some of the kits are a bit pricey, but I meant the main body/head sections not being resin. Would love to be all styrene, as it's easier to deal with.

Simon, A spare servo sounds good. I got this "Rotating Fake Security Surveillance Camera" off Ebay the other day to help with some motion. Ended up being less than $10 delivered.

 

[moffeaton]

I put that very toy into the first Probe Droid I made.... will tyr to find the video. Works great.

 

[Nils]

I'm most interested in how you get it all together, how to attach the servo solution with the head and body. It must be possible to get apart too.

 

[moffeaton]

I'm buttoning it up - making it rock solid.

 

[Nils]

Buttoning, how?

 

[moffeaton]

Glue, putty, wind, fire, all that kind of thing!

 

[Nils]

Sorry, I´m from Sweden, I´m a little slow...

 

[moffeaton]

I'm a smart ass - dangerous combo!

LOL

I think it can be made so that everything is still accessible, if you want it to be - it's smart!

 

[Nils]

I think my Probots head will spinn, vomit like Linda Blair and eventually fall off...

 

[moffeaton]

Hahah, yeah, mine too, probably!

 

[moffeaton]

Okay, so continuing the "insane laser cut acrylic parts" detour - this is the last of it. These will also be free files I will upload, so you can do this to your PD if you wish. After this update, everything else is putting resin to resin and cutting brass tubes, so we're nearing the home stretch, in a way!

I added a mount to the bottom of the bottom body part (pics coming tomorrow) so those are the bolts you're seeing... anyway, I decided to grind/cut off the equatorial disc, as it wasn't 100% flat.

I replaced it with acrylic of the same thickness:

I then thought "hey - why not inset a similar disc in the body's other half, so that I can weld-on 3 them together, and ensure the whole trench is straight and true!". SO that's what I did.

Same diameter hole makes lining these two up a cinch.

Like. A. Glove.

Currently sanding and cleaning the join lines with liberal gobs of Apoxie Sculpt.

It really makes the assembly clean and easy...

 

[jedimaster]

I want a laser cutter!!!!

 

[moffeaton]

It's making everything SO COOL as I build!!

 

[ralphee]

I want a laser cutter!!!!

Do you get one with the kit, bargain :lol

Lee

 

[moffeaton]

No, sadly, lol! You do get one hell of a nice set of castings though!

 

[ralphee]

No, sadly, lol! You do get one hell of a nice set of castings though!

Yeah they look.....lovely!

lee