R2-D2 Teeces dome LED’s

September 2023

Mike wanted to reinstall his Teeces LED’s in his R2 dome again. This was after his last set of logic’s from DP, got ripped out when wires dropped and got caught in the dome gear.

So I uninstalled the DP set and made a start on cleaning things up. I made up some cardboard templates for the holes, marked the position and drilled into the resin DJ Design components using a manual hand drill and a 3.5mm drill bit. I cut down some 20mm long M3 threads and screwed on a nut to depth required. I then fitted them through the cardboard template into the pre filled holes with Araldite epoxy glue. I then fitted the screens to help with alignment.

The three Holoprojectors required new location holders, so they were sent to the printer.

I also needed to print two new PSI board holders, after a slight design modification for a better fit.

Whilst these were printing, i made a start on connecting up the cables and wiring the switches back in.

Cables and switches done. Second switch is now for controlling the holoprojectors independently.

Just waiting on them being delivered.

Another happy customer 🙂👍🏽

Motor repair work - Pittman dome motor

Mike asked me if I could take a look at his dome motor as the wires had got caught and broke, right at the point of the housing. He had already taken the motor apart, it was just the brush housing that needed to come apart to gain access to the wire contacts.

I wasn’t able to look at it properly before the weekend, so took my tools with me to the Christmas event to attempt it’s repair.

It’s not pretty, but it was the best I could do. The wires are connected to ‘pressed in tabs’, so I had to use the remains of the original wire connected to them to be able to solder the broken wires back on. The short red and black wires are the original broken short parts of the wires, once connected these were trimmed off to allow the upper part of the housing to fit together.

The springs were repositioned first, behind the brush heads, and then the upper housing was reattached, whilst my middle finger held the now sprung loaded bushes, back whilst inserting the motors shaft between them……phew!

The above was learned after the third attempt at re-assembly lol.

Once reassembled, Mike tested the motor and it worked fine. Another notch added to my repair list lol.

Another R2D2 type dome - part 3 [AstroPixels]

Back in January, I had the call from Mike for ANOTHER set of Teeces for ANOTHER R2 dome 😂. The plan was to wire up bought LEDS, but thankfully he managed to get hold of the real deal ones.

Next up was to get some Holoprojector LED’s.

….roll on to May, and Darren P, had released his R2-D2 lights kit!

Link to AstroPixels

So Mike purchased the kit and even installed it all himself…..it’s that easy to do!! And it starts up first time when power was applied.

He just needed me to connect up a power switch.