Electric Robot and Son Posted October 24, 2010 Author Share Posted October 24, 2010 I really like the tube on this Valvehead robot. I wish I could find more tubes with different shapes like this VT-127A tube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Robot and Son Posted October 25, 2010 Author Share Posted October 25, 2010 I still have one more Valvehead Robot to finish and post plus one more planned, but if anyone else is interested these are for sale. Please checkout my listing in the Adverts Forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Robot and Son Posted October 27, 2010 Author Share Posted October 27, 2010 Here is the last (for right now) Valvehead robot. It is the Valvehead QB3-300S. It is similar to the previous designs with a new chest litho and a front view window with a spinning led ball inside. This one also has an LED inside the head. Here are some pics. and a video (I hope) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Most awesome Joe ! What do you use for the arms ? Where do you find all of the tanks ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Robot and Son Posted December 4, 2010 Author Share Posted December 4, 2010 Thanks Mark, coming from you thats a nice complemnt. The tanks I bought on ebay a while ago. The arms are made up of a right angle ball jointwith an aluminum sleeve at the elbow, Chromed brass pipe with brass compession rings for the lower arms and a drilled out cut nut for the claw. I bought the ball joints on ebay but I haven't seen similar ones lately. I had considered using other ball joints (ebay Item number: 370461864801) looked promising. I have one more completed and one more in process. Some of these are still available to buy, but I have an offer to sell the remaining ones to a local dealer that I am considering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Robot and Son Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 I have come to the end of the Valvehead Robot Project. I finished the last two and did some upgrades on some of the earlier ones. Here are pics and videos of the last two: Valvehead 127G This robot has a ray cannon in his body with a flashing LED and a rat-a-tat-tat sound as it moves forward and a short video- I propped the robots up on a stand so I could video the actions without the robot moving: Valvehead QB3-300R This robot has a clear panel in his chest with a robot inside at a control panel with a flashing LED gun and the rat-a-tat-tat sound. and a short video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Robot and Son Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 The upgraded valveheads Valvehead QB3-300A got an additional litho panel and a hand held raygun that lights and makes raygun sounds. and video Valvehead QB3-300D also got an additional litho panel and a hand held raygun that lights and makes raygun sounds. and video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Robot and Son Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 Valvehead 327Balso got an additional litho panel and the hand held raygun that lights and makes raygun sounds. and video and valvehead 815A also got an additional litho panel and the hand held raygun that lights and makes raygun sounds. and video I really enjoyed this project. I started out to build two for Botstock, one for the raffle and one that Phil bought. I kept finding additional cool looking vacuum tubes and came up with different antenna schemes and litho artwork so I kept making them until I ran out of parts and ideas. Finding the functioning miniature rayguns, that I was able to wire in really added a nice feature. It will probably take me several weeks to clean up my basement shop from this project. I guess that will give me some time to think of another one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil R Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Hey! My raygun doesn't work. :lol: Seriously, those little guns have more than one use. Does he also use it to hold his space car keys? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Robot and Son Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 Phil, Actually they hold the Keys to the ELECTRO X spacetank :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robobob Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Quite a formidable army you have there, Joe .... NICE !!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyman Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Wow, Joe! You manage to take some already cool robots and made them even more cooler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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