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Re: Destroyer Droid - Help w/ unrolling
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Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:04:13 GMT
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I'm having trouble with the rear leg mechanism too. I reduced the number of
elastics to 3. This seemd to make the latching and unlatching operations
easier when tripping it manually (i.e. by hand, not rolling it). With 4 bands
I could trip the rear leg, no matter how hard you hit the front legs. I
haven't tried rolling it yet with 3 bands...I was frustrated with it by then.
The head popping off didn't help...
I'll try your solution for the head 1st. Yesterday, I was looking at it and
trying to figure out a fix myself. I thought of removing the numbered 2 (or
3??) brown link that the head connects to and replacing it with a 1 (shaft
fits in one end only). The replace the grey shaft piece with a black one (3
or 4??) awith those tight fitting bushings on either end. If anyone trys this
before me, let me know how it works out.
...MJ
In lugnet.starwars, Jason Fabisch writes:
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> > I bought my destroyer droid and have had some problems too. First the guns
> > wouldn't flip down. I added another rubber band to each side and solved that
> > problem. Sometimes the head wouldn't flip up either but now it does, too
> > well. Actually the head falls off. The grey technic rod that holds the head
> > in place pulls forward and everytime I roll it the head is just sitting and
> > bobbing there. Anyone have any ideas how to fix any of these minor problems?
> >
> > Mike
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> I posted a fix earlier. If the grey pin pops out even a little, the head will
> have trouble. The grey pin passes through a technic element that is always
> attached to the head. Wrap a small rubber band around this part. Now, there
> is also a small grey assembly hanging down very close to where the head gets
> plugged into. Plug the head in and wrap the rubber band down and around this
> grey assembly. You can use the smallest rubberband for this. Everytime the
> head tries to pop out, the band pulls it back in again. Also, you could fix
> the gun popping problem by using one extra rubberband in the front that pulls
> the shoulders together. This increases the forward speed to allow the arms to
> snap down harder. As for the rear leg trouble mentioned earlier. Mine
> started binding recently too. There is alot of force being applied to some
> parts, and the vibration when its released has a tendency to tear the whole
> thing apart. Make sure that nothing is binding the set up. I also notice
> that the L shaped flat technic joints(there where a ton of them in this set)
> all have molding flash which causes the parts to not mount flush. Its very
> small, but could be a problem. There must have been a good 20 of them in this
> set.
>
>
> Jason F.
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| Boy oh boy, I had troubles with this as well. The head/rubberband fix had helped with the head. For the back leg, I couldn't get it to snap open no matter how hard the front legs struck. When I reduced rubberbands it would open but not have enough (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) I posted a fix earlier. If the grey pin pops out even a little, the head will have trouble. The grey pin passes through a technic element that is always attached to the head. Wrap a small rubber band around this part. Now, there is also a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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