James' R5-D4

June 2021 Decided (last month May) that I was going to be the start of getting R5's 'Bad Motivator' …….back installed again. It ...

I did some design changes and re-printed off a new holder. This one fitted much better all round. I had made slots in the inside top face ...

Drew up a holder in AutoCAD Inventor and printed off a sample. This was slightly tighter than it should of been, on the inside faces, s...

With the electronics being worked on, another thing that needed replacing due to issues, was the door actuator that makes the ‘Bad Motivato...

It's been a while since my last update, but I have been busy. I've drilled and tapped the slide so that the 'motivator' ca...

So it was back to re-designing the pivot arm and linkage points. I first used a piece of cardboard to gauge the distance after I took phot...

After printing out the actuator bracket re-design, I found out that I actually had less space than I thought and that the rear of the actuat...

Ive had to do a few more re-designs on the motivator's activator bracket & pivot pieces. This is all new to me and although I sort o...

More redesign work has been done on getting the bracket into the right place, to allow the Motivator to sit low enough in the dome and also ...

So Saturday I set up the electrics so I could easily work on them outside of R5's body. excuse the hanging regulator, [mid left] this...

Fitted the XT60 fly lead and plug into R5's dome, then looked at the Motivator electrical system. When testing the Bad Motivator syste...

For the life of me I can't remember if I've actually tested R5's 'Bad Motivator' whilst his head has been connected to h...

So I was happy that the pop-up motivator system working, but not really with them ended both at the same time. As, well, in the film, after...

.......sorted out the Motivator to lower back down after being activated......here's a VERY short video. I fitted a simple rubber ba...

Installation Time! Got home last night and started on fixing the electronics board into position. But soon realised that this position was...

Last night I trimmed board down the board so it can fit in this position. Will have to reposition the timer relay. Dome wires previou...

Not had much time to work on this recently, but got back onto Monday. I'd found a suitable piece of MDF that I could mount the compone...

Components arrived at the weekend, sooner than I'd expected lol. But wasn't able to try them out till Tuesday. As always the instr...

OK, so I got round to planning how to operate R5's pop-up motivator and also to trigger the smoke system. activate motivator to pop-up...

Tuesday 30th Sept. Almost finished making the frame/support bracket to hold the door look actuator (solenoid) with. The unit will be secure...