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Plottwist- the guy who emailed you saying he had the remote was the same guy who donated the robot to you, and he just said that so he could get it out of his house! :-P
@@20035079 That's shocking. I live in the KC area and never hear/see of any old Apple equipment. It took years before I found a compact Mac in the area for a decent price. (Vintage Macs rarely show up at all.) I don't think I've seen any Apple IIs for sale in KC, either. I do know that KansasFest takes place in KC every year. Never been, but seems interesting...
"Hey, do you want this robot with no remote?" "Not without the remote. Thank you anyway." Two. Weeks. Later. "Hey, do you want this remote with no robot?" 👀
I use Novus plastic polish for this and it works really well. I also use it for restoring the ABS/thermoplastic/bakelite cases of old rotary phones as well. It's used for all kinds of plastics, even for polishing lightbars on emergency vehicles.
Back when I had this PC case with an acrylic window I used to remove scratches on the acrylic with liquid Brasso. It even worked on the glossy side of my Playstation 2!
How does she pull it off so well? I thought for sure it was going to come out like shit! Lol, especially with the way she had to get the original product out of it.
The guy with the remote was probably just the first guy trying to get you to accept the donation because the curse of the hearoid has been living on in his family for generations
Wouldn't surprise me if that second dude that claimed to have a remote control but then disappeared was really the first guy tricking you into accepting the robot, to be honest.
Exactly what I was thinking. I actually never heard of Brasso before and have a GBA with a pretty scratched up screen lying around. Already ordered some of that stuff to try it on my GBA screen cover.
Good point... just the other day i saw him make a review about a mini-disc with a scratched-up display for a remote. May I say i was amazed at the result he had with the Brasso product.
@@gameswithabasementdwellerw6202 Looked those up as well, but I'd like to keep this particular one original. I have two GBA by now and I'd like to keep this one original just for sentimental reasons :) The other one on the hand, I'll probably put a backlight mod in, if I find the time to do so.
@Joe Blow It makes more sense to mould here because: 1) measuring and modelling the part precisely enough may turn out to be rather hard 2) 3D-printed part may not be springy or strong enough to do its job. This can likely be rectified with clever redesigning the part but would take more than a couple of attempts - so lots of time.
@Max Raider Or manually redo it with a caliper and 3d modelling software, that's less fun than it sounds. And have a well-calibrated 3d printer, or it would be either too tight or to loose to work well. An there'd be layer lines or other boo-boos that would have to be removed. 3D printing would be an option of choice only if all of those parts were missing and no-one would lend you one. And that would mean reconstruction from photos or pure confabulaton based onwhat the part is supposed to do rather than its appearance. As for copying things with 2-part silicone and resin I am just starting to experiment with that myself and I did duplicate a flashlight lens which works OK but has a few bubbles in it and slightly different refractory index. And The King Of Random did duplicate a vinyl record with silicone and resin and it did play music that is way more successful than I anticipated 9the music is recognizable, and while ther are pops and crackles it is listenable), so there is a really big potential here for detail accuracy.
Love seeing some classic plastic moulding, rather than the 3D printing everyone else is doing these days. I wonder if the resulting parts are stronger too?
Molded parts do tend to be stronger then 3D printed. I think one of the best uses of 3D printing (for stronger bulk items anyways) is to make highly accurate and long term molds with the printer.
Depends. Stronger than resing printers, for sure, but some filaments for FDM printers are really strong, polycarbonate, for example. So, depending on the printing orientation and filament, I think it can be just as strong. But of course, the finish will not be nearly as good as the one from the mold from the actual part!
No mater what a filament printer uses and even if the print is set to 100% fill 3d printed parts ALWAYS have an inherent weakness. The sheer strength of a 3d printed part in the same direction as the layers is very week compared to a moulded part (and you have WAY more choice in materials when moulding vrs 3d printing).
Shoutout to 8bit guy for making his intro exactly long enough that pressing L one time when the video starts skips the intro and starts exactly where the video begins, every time
I find it amazing that they care so much to repair these things. -Taking them apart. -Cleaning each piece in a special solution+UV light -Molding new pieces to replace lost/damaged ones. -Printing new decals -etc. Like if this were me, I wouldn't care about this toy from the past. It would just be a novelty item that takes up space and knowing that would give me no drive to fix it up. I would just sell it or donate it. It fascinates me to see the amount of dedication this guy has in these odd things that really have no use today.
A whole lot of insects and spiders are now homeless. Seriously- impressive. The amount of work on this was incredible... obviously a labour of Robot love.
Don't forget that includes the vast majority of 'sci-fi' movies before Star Wars happened, as well. That was a huge contributing factor in why the studio didn't bother retaining the merchandising rights, to their eternal chagrin...
@@jaguarke069: I always wondered about it, being visually odd. I believe it's in one of the documentaries included in the original 4 disc IV-V-VI trilogy; Anthony Daniels mentions some of the costume issues when filming _A New Hope._
When I was little the Tomy Robot was the peak of my electronical desires, sadly never got one. Great to see your video about these things! Regards from Germany!
Hmmm. When I was a kid my aspirations couldn't really rise above a Merit Magic Robot...but this was the 1950s after all and where were these electronics? :-)
It's not love. It's obsession. Fixation on tedium to try and stave off the creeping self-destructive thoughts. It's a common trait among the gender confused and otherwise physically inept.
In case you haven't found a way to polish the dome yet I remember that Techmoan used Brasso to remove scratches from plastic on Hi-Fi displays and they looked perfect afterwards. Maybe try that?
Hey David, have you thought of doing a silicone mold of that broken gear for that mechanical arm project? If you made a 3D print of the gear, you could then make a mold of that and fill the mold with a resin. Then you might have a part that's more durable than a 3D print.
I love the intense music played over the main disassembly of the Hearoid. It's the same music from the 8 bit guy restoration of the corroded VIC 20. By the way, David whats that music called??
I actually thought that wS 8 Bits guy wearing a wig...and that he was trying to make a parady video...lmao I was wrong its a actual lady that looks just like 8 bits 👦 guys
I'd love to see a full review/demonstration of this! I remember some robots from the 80's had vary basic gaming functions using the cassette player… :)
Fantastic job, David and Randi! I'm glad to see that restorations can go on, even in these pandemic times. I remember as a child how "kids robots" were all the rage in the mid-80's, and always wanted one for myself. But the closest I got to one was my friend's Teddy Ruxpin and Grubby dolls. Those things were "Uncanny Valley" incarnate. Like evil, take-home versions of the Chuck-E-Cheez animatronic musicians (themselves creepy and weird.) Far more awesome were the actual robot-looking toys like Hearoid and the Nintendo R.O.B. So many TV shows and movies from the 80's ("Rocky IV", "Wall Street", "Runaway") envisioned a time when we'd all have our own personal R2D2 helping us around the house. But the closest we've gotten so far is....Google Assistant? Siri? Alexa? Now if only we could restore a whole army of these 80's Christmas-catalog robots, install some wicked A.I. and let them loose on the public. A platoon of awesome 80's toy robots, bent on World Domination. Wait.. wait... That would just give us our own breed of home-made Daleks. Tiny, adorable, angry Daleks.
@Joe Blow A sad end for your Teddy. Mine still operates last I tried it but I'm jealous you had a Grubby, my parents thought he was missing the linking cable (it was stored in the battery compartment) and took him back. Never found a replacement.
This gave me a memory I forgot I had from way back in Elementary school when my Computers teacher drove one of these up to the classroom door and started talking as a "prank." I can't believe this video made me remember a decades old memory.
I would have loved having one of those as a kid... And I definitely would have played tapes of Ozzy on that thing just like so many people did with Teddy Ruxpin. 3:) \m/
I gotta say, even though Robots like these are relics of the 1980's and only really make sense in the context of their time, as a kid growing up in the 2000s I probably would have loved something just like this.
Awesome! I had the dingbot and the spotbot back in the 80's! I totally wanted an Omnibot for Christmas but I think it was like 350$.. that's like 900$ in nowadays money.. no wonder I never got one lol
David, I've seen Brasso (yes, the metal polish) be used to polish the front plastic on old iPods. It works very well, and doesn't seem to damage the plastic at all. I think it might be what you're looking for. Thanks iPod video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qmD8x9kI8VY.htmlm54s (using Brasso)
Try using polywatch to polish the face dome. I have very positive experience using it now even on some rather expensive watches with old plastic crystals.
Hello! I am your fan! Great video! So, dont use WD40 for any kind of motors, use arklothene for cleaning and motor oil for the axis. If it has a lot of rust, use deoxit. Wd 40 will become a jelly with time...
quarantine is almost over, its actually already over in a lot of countries. here in my city a ton of public facilities will reopen as early as this friday
A woman fixing electronics - uses a hairdryer, a cooker, and even hot sauce lol I mean she's doing great job, it's just funny that her method kind of evolved from common house items.
The fact that a remote popped up 2 weeks later is strange. But the wierder part is that in the unboxing video David said he had gotten an offer for the remote before he had gotten the offer for the robot. *The Saga Continues*
i may not be 30 seconds in but you pronounced "Tomy" wrong, its pronounced "Toe Me" Heres an advert for proof: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CWM7c9IlZRI.html (it's right at the end)
Those acid batteries are basically the same as a car battery right? Kind of similar to the Macintosh Portable battery. Also the absolute goop inside this thing
I was very surprised seeing the video, thinking: "Man, he has this thing like forever" and the first sentence of the video "back in 2018" didn't know it was that long ago 🙈
I've had really good results with the Novus plastic polishing kit, you're able to get almost flawless results if you put in the time. I'm not sure how well it works on transparent plastic, but it works great for things like badges on electronics.
