ROBODUDE Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Congrats on the repair Kirk---He looks awesome !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
festival Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Taking apart and putting together a Directional Robot was "one" of my repairs. Got him to work properly. Repaired a few Robo-Tanks. Got one to speak again.......in Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Gil Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 20 hours ago, Tinplate6 said: Well, to my credit I have only repaired two robots; a walking Robocon, and a Blink-A-Gear, but the one covered in this old post, tells the whole story... Nice! a beauty for sure. That's a robot on my list. So, no more repairs in your future? With your outer restoration / clean-up skills, I'd think it'd be the perfect match for adding some robots on the nice side of the budget ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Gil Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 20 hours ago, kennetzel said: I too have only repaired two robots...one was actually a rebuild. I did my old Attacking Martian a while ago, replaced the wires. However I couldn't figure out how to wire up the lights in the guns. So now they stay on all the time, which isn't bad, they look cool through the green lenses. The rebuild was a Remco Lost in Space robot. Very easy to repair, the mechanism is very simple. But to make my all blue one I had to disconnect all the wiring, remove the battery contacts and remove the treads from the legs. Once the tread section is rebuilt and the wiring is reattached, all you have to do is feed the light through the legs and screw the contacts in place once the torso is ready to put on. But the hardest of the two was definitely the Attacking Martian. Very cool, Ken - I'd tend to agree that all of the mixed actions make the Horikawa's tough to work on. Kudos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Gil Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 3 hours ago, festival said: Taking apart and putting together a Directional Robot was "one" of my repairs. Got him to work properly. Repaired a few Robo-Tanks. Got one to speak again.......in Japanese. Hi Festival - I wonder if your experience with your Directional was like mine... I was very intimidated by opening him up, by it actually went quite well. Making the decision was the hardest part. Though, I only needed to work on the other side of the battery case & switch - I didn't get into the motor at all. Still, very satisfying to see him fully working again. Getting the Robotank to speak his native tongue is fantastic! Was it a ZR-1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Gil Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 14 hours ago, ROBODUDE said: Congrats on the repair Kirk---He looks awesome !! Thanks Rich! I know you've done some nice work getting some old robots kicking again too. You have to have an adventure to share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonydroid Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Hi I am on 4th repair robot so far, 2 smoking spaceman robots and now they are working properly, 3rd one was that little gear Horikawa but i did not repair the spring motor, maybe later i do that, and now i have another little gear Horikawa with a problem in his foot and leg but i will going to fix it, so the worst part for me is to fix the main spring motor, this is a complicated job... cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Gil Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 18 minutes ago, Jonydroid said: Hi I am on 4th repair robot so far, 2 smoking spaceman robots and now they are working properly, 3rd one was that little gear Horikawa but i did not repair the spring motor, maybe later i do that, and now i have another little gear Horikawa with a problem in his foot and leg but i will going to fix it, so the worst part for me is to fix the main spring motor, this is a complicated job... cheers Hey Joao! You've made some robots very happy! and, you are right - that spring repair is a tough job. You have a great looking gear robot as it is now - and if you change your mind, he'll still be there for you! cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonydroid Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 3 minutes ago, Martian Gil said: Hey Joao! You've made some robots very happy! and, you are right - that spring repair is a tough job. You have a great looking gear robot as it is now - and if you change your mind, he'll still be there for you! cheers! thanks my friend yes well i am always learning and this spring motor it will be a big challenge for me to fix but i think i can do the job. i just have to gain courage cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonydroid Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Today i went to the post office to receive the Horikawa gear robot that I bought a few weeks ago, just as I arrived my house opened a box and wanted to observe it, I came across with 2 issues, one of the feet was loose and was only attached by a shaft of metal and the leg also out of place, so to correct that I've been all afternoon to get these 2 problems solved, fixing the foot again was a tremendous pain and hard to get inside, since the space between the outside plastic leg part and the metal part of inside that makes the robot walk, the foot was not easy and I stayed about 3 hours to do this work, on the other hand the leg was much easier because it just left the place because of the loose foot, finally I got everything fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROBODUDE Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Hi MG !! I have a few repair stories--probably my favorite was my Cragstan rotor robot as it had 3 different things going on--the motor was seized up, I had to rewire part of it and the rubber band that drove the eyes was dry rotted---All 3 problems turned out to be relatively easy fixes though and now it is fully functional !! Probably my favorite robot in my collection----Great discussion topic !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9tobor9 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Never succeded in fixing myself....more robots now Geeks rule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 The toughest repair,,,toy,,Ever ? This Damn thing. M-27 for Ricardo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 I'm in the middle of this mess! Moon Detector with corroded battery box, split plastic gear. loose wires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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