Dyne's LD-F1 (D-O concept) build

[Dyne]

I still really enjoying this build. I'm trying to use it as inspiration to get back to some of mine.

Thanks.  I'm still a bit surprised that he's been as popular as he has.

I've been enjoying hearing kind comments about LD-F1 this weekend, both from fellow builders and the public.  Reminds me not to be so hypercritical of my work and compulsive about pointing out the flaws to everyone.

Saturday went very well.  We had a total of two R2-D2s, one droid they call Jayne, one DeAgostini R2, one mini A-LT droid, one BB-8, one mouse, two scrubbers, and LD-F1.



The droid drove fine right up to the end, when i decided to play with high speed.  As usual, that triggeted a belt failure,  specifically the port inner belt broke, much like happened on the other side at dragoncon.  I took a pic of the track being dismantled to replace it.  The two black screws are for the voltage regulator mount on this side.


From there I'll pull off the idler carrier, pull off the 40T outer belt, and pull off the drive roller on the left, put on the new 58T inner belt, put the roller back on, move the belt into place around both the pulley and the roller (which can be a chore), then reassemble and tighten the mechanism.  

Rejoining the ends of the track is theoretically easy, but for one person it can be a bit of a chore to hold both ends aligned AND to insert the filament segment that acts as the hinge pin.