Building the Terminator EP16. Quick update and assembling some parts 

I wish I could afford to do that!

Ooops! That will teach me to copy and paste the title from the previous video. It should of course be 16, I've fixed it now, thanks for pointing that out!👍

I would love to build a T-600, but I think I need to finish this one first, and a few other projects. I actually think a 600 would be easier, I would weld most of it out of steel and oxidise it black. Being bigger and more primitive you don't have to be as precise and there's more space inside for the mechanical parts. Could you 3D print some of the moulds rather than using clay?

@@AndysMachines I was going to 3d print the parts but I wanted to do something entirely handmade

@@AndysMachines I could still 3d print the parts if the clay model doesn't go well and thanks for the tips

@@AndysMachines I will post some videos of the t600 in the future and how I made it.

@@AndysMachines Good luck on the upper arms of the t800 and the neck.

Yes, they do look similar, however a trailer tow-ball is twice as big, the ball is only 1 inch diameter. A lot of the parts of the endoskeleton are actually smaller than you might imagine. The balljoint used for the wrist was a standard hardware part, but I don't know what it was used for and they may have modified it.

I'm actually working on the elbow right now, my approach was to sand cast the basic shape with the parting line running lengthwise, and then machine the undercuts, recesses etc. The cables I mentioned are actually for the neck, but I'll be using similar ones in the arm too. Bowden cables come with 2 different types of outer casing, one that's a spiral strip and one that's made of straight wires. The spiral type is more common and generally better, but it changes overall length when bent which was causing problems with the tension in the neck as it bends. The straight wire type is less flexible but doesn't change length when bent. I actually knew about this problem before I built the neck, but I thought I could get away with it. That will teach me!

@@AndysMachines Elbow... Yep... makes sense I didn't have a mill when I first did mine so yeah, the undercuts were the killer :)

There are micro hydraulic systems, but the smallest cylinders are still around 4x bigger than those in the hand. It would be theoretically possible to make even smaller ones that would have enough force to compare to that of a human, but the main problem with hydraulics would be all the hoses that would need to be routed through the skeleton to the pump (around and through the joints). I don't think pneumatics would work well at this scale, not enough force and gas/air is too 'springy' to hold position well. Having said that I have an idea for a future project involving micro hydraulics.

Some of the cylinders do have what look like lines attached, but many do not. They could be hydraulic, pneumatic or electric actuators. Who knows what they had in mind when building it? They probably just wanted to make it look good on screen.

I will operate some of the joints like this, where there isn't room to put the motor/gearbox near the joint itself. It's not the ideal way to do it as cables always have some stretch in them, particularly the rotary (flexible drive) type.

@@AndysMachines I am thinking about a new type of linked cable with no stretch.. Like a chain of small pins with pivoting small balls. The technology and materials are in the now.. Would be ideal for these type of applications. the small ball heads would have small horizontal pins so they wont have room to stretch.

Interesting idea, sounds a bit similar to bead chain? Have you seen my video on the rotational casting machine?

I am gonna watch it now.. out of curiosity@@AndysMachines

And yes.. like a bead chain but the rotation will be fixed.. @@AndysMachines

The only 'blueprints' I've found are a set of quite accurate drawings by Conqueror Worm for the hand/forearm. Everything else I've done by reference to photos and 3D and physical models and there's quite a lot of variation.

@@AndysMachines Bro DONT release the blueprints China will pick it up and the WORLD will collapse!

Yes, well a robot.

It's not mentioned in the first two films, but many people assume they are real teeth harvested from human prisoners. In Salvation (yes, I know many fans discount this film) all the T-800 skulls in the skynet factory (before assembly) had metal teeth. I think the teeth would most probably be made of the same material as the skull and then coated with an enamel coloured layer to look like human teeth. Why would they bother collecting and inserting full set of actual human teeth for each terminator? Personally I just prefer the look of the metal teeth, so I built it that way.

@@AndysMachines, Because most if not all of the T-800 series has the living skin around the skeleton. This, as you know, was to deceive the humans. That is why they had the real looking teeth. Also, I do count Salvation as one of the cannon films.

I actually really like Salvation, particularly for the variety of other types of terminator it has. Maybe one day I'll build a T-600 (metal teeth!)

@@AndysMachines , Yes, Salvation and the video games definitely open up the universe of Terminator and allows us to see allot more of the technologies involved. They should make more future prequals to open that up more. So far, we have only seen a few of the major battels of the war, but we haven't seen anything that shows exactly how the humans won against Skynet.

It will have eventually!