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
Cheers guys. Thanks, I'm really chuffed. I was almost going to give it up as a bad job as it was going to cost me loads to hire a specialist to look into it, so when I got that email, I was well relieved
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
Ok, so for anyone interested, I've dropped them on ebay, so if you'd like to order some, you can do so there:
Reproduction Tomy Omnibot Jr/Omnibot/Omnibot 2000 robot tire sets
That's the perfect place to advertise. So if someone sells an omni with bad tires they can easily find your produce in the same place.
Yea, that's what I thought too. If it can earn my enough to pay for my habbit, I'd be happy
That's fantastic!
You could watch every omnibot and robie sr auction and send the winner an email letting him know you have new tires
Hey matt, how did you remove the threads off the wheels? Mike
Hi Matt, do you still have these for sale? I'd like a set for my omni bot 2000 and possibly a set for the Robie jr I just got.