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Horikawa robot for parts


Jonydroid

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Well here i go 

 

As you know i bought this old rusted Horikawa gear robot spring loaded and after i thought about all of it and it's condition i am using it for parts, that was the main reason for i bought it and i am using it for that for now, but this robot have really good parts i don't know if i will recover it later but for now i took some parts like the arm and feet ears and head out for a rust remover and paint out 

 

First i took the eléctric tool to remove the surface rust and did really a good job, second i put all those parts on a rust remover solution that can Also take old Paint out so it's doing well and did a good work i like this, the arm is in bare metal now,

 

 i Will do later a mooth sandpaper work and primer, Next Paint job and install the arm 

 

 

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This product did a really good job afterall it's condition 

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On 4/26/2024 at 7:02 PM, Roboto said:

Fantastic!

 

Thank you Robot👍😀

 

Chapter 4

 

Só here's the first coat of primer, tomorrow i Will apply 2 more primer coats just to seal it well, and next not sure maybe tomorrow i can apply paint...

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27 minutes ago, ROBODUDE said:

i THINK THAT COLOR LOOKS GOOD JOAO!! MAKES IT UNIQUE!!

Hello Robodude i don't know my friend it kinda looks weird to me it's a silver paint, i was fooled by the color of the spray can lid, I don't think it looks good... 😒 I think i will search for the similar original paint. It's too bright i didn't attached the arm it was only to see how it would look... 

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3 minutes ago, ROBODUDE said:

Yes-I can see now with the parts it would be too silver with the eyes and mouth! Good luck Joao! I cant wait to see it finished!

Yeah and it needs more soft sandpaper to smooth some areas than new Paint but now it have to wait like 3/4 days to a proper dry paint going to leave it into the sun light to cure faster...

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17 hours ago, SAL said:

Jonydroid if you leave it like that then you’d have a Japanese robot repaired with Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing! 
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

 

Thx everyone 😀👍very appreciated with your comments... Didn't knew about kintsugi art repairing work, pretty cool 😏 you know that it makes me feel good to repair things like this it's Nice. 

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5 hours ago, Jonydroid said:

Thx everyone 😀👍very appreciated with your comments... Didn't knew about kintsugi art repairing work, pretty cool 😏 you know that it makes me feel good to repair things like this it's Nice. 


Yeah it is a very cool Japanese tradition, valuing the history of the object.

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