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
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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
I'm trying to cast the good ones, but if that fails, i would be needing some replacement ones yea. Both on the right arm are snapped. @troy you say you might have some?
I do have them but I don't remember which spring is for the shoulder and which is for the wrist. I think its the smaller of the two. Let me know which it is and I will send it.
just to make this clear, he needs the plastic part that connects the upper to the lower arm, which is sometimes called "arm spring" since the plastic kinda works like one.
Also available in red
So is it the large gear (with shaft) on the left you need? I thought it may have been the spring that goes on the middle gear.
Btw those treads look awesome! I wonder if you are allowed to sell them in quantity on Ebay. May concern is that its a copy of patented work. If not they are truly worthy for public sale.
Hey @troy, no no, it's these that I would need:
RE the tires, I was thinking of putting them on ebay on a "build to order" type of scenario, but good point about making sure I'm not breaking any laws. I'll defo look into it. I could really do with recooping a little cash. This hobby is costing me a fortune
ohhh. I thought we were talking about omnibot 2000 like in the thread title. That teaches me not to only read the last page. :/ I don't have those unfortunately.
Yeah those treads will definitely sell because a lot of omnis sold on ebay have worn out treads.
Hey @troy, yea, my bad. I got delivery of an Omnibot a couple of days ago, so went ahead and made some tires for that aswell, as like you say, they had perished too.