
mattbrailsford
Hey Guys,
I'm just starting off a new project after I got an Omnibot 2k off ebay. I'll be creating a project page for it soon, but I thought I'd share a little bit of it now.
When I dismantled the bot, and gave it a clean, I noticed that the wheels were pretty degraded. I know josh can create new ones, but being new to this, I really wanted to learn something new, so decided to make my own mould.
What I did then, was to carefully remove one of the existing tyres and then used a sealer to seal all the cracks.
I then setup a box for it, and also attached a kind of funnel to help pore in the ruber (turns out it wasn't that great, but you've gotta try these things :))
I then cast the hole thing in silicone
Finally, I then cast the tire and tada
I think it worked pretty well. The only bad bit is that I don't think I mixed the rubber to cast the tire very well as it's a little sticky. But hey, not bad for my first attempt
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Yeah those treads will definitely sell because a lot of omnis sold on ebay have worn out treads.
I remember one member here posted he would still have some of these parts you, Matt, need.
Maybe youll have to open up another thread and ask about it!
@Troy: if you ever have gears from your Omnibot 2000 arm to pass on, let me know. I got spare gears from Josh already but I am still looking for another few to fix up another arm.
Mike
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Whoop whoop
It also means you can make as many as you like!
So far, I've got moulds for Omni 2000, Omni and Omni Jr robots so can do pretty much any of those. Price wise, I'm thinking the following:
Omni Jr = 4 per tire (8 per set)
Omni = 5 per tire (20 per set)
Omni 2000 = 6.50 per tire (26 per set)
All of these I can currently do in Black, Blue, Red or Green (I can get a Yellow too if anyone wants that). I'm working on Grey, but I have to do that by mixing black with white, so need to come up with a reliable way of mixing the colours.
If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll work out some postage.
I hope I can help bring some life bike to some awesome toys
Reproduction Tomy Omnibot Jr/Omnibot/Omnibot 2000 robot tire sets
Mike
Sure do, checkout this post for a list of what I currently have http://www.ez-robot.com/Community/Forum/posts.aspx?threadId=2431&page=3 From the looks of it, I should have 1 set of 2000's and I have plenty of Jr's.
My email address is in the other post so drop me an email and let me know if / what you'd like.
Matt