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Balcony Chuck restoration
Topic Started: May 30 2015, 07:28 AM (41,114 Views)
80sgirl
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Since I plan on restoring Chuck, I figured it was time to make a thread. First post is more of a record of where I'm starting from.

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The good:

He has all his body cosmetics.
They're in great shape.
Has all his cylinders and a valve bank.
Parts seem to be in good working order.

The bad:

Mech is missing the right forearm and hand.
Whites of the eyes are marked and discolored.
Irises are chipped, scratched and also mismatched.
No nose.
No lower lip.
No tongue.
Is that white thing supposed to be teeth?

The unknown:

Status of cylinders, valves and other mechanics. (No compressor or controller to test those yet.)

Working on either getting the old right forearm/hand from the previous owner or a replacement from another member.

Eyes are really important to a character, whether they're 2D or 3D. Here are Chuck's.

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Now you know why I've taken most pics with his eyes closed. I think the iris on the left eye is newer, or at least intended for a different bot. It's a different size, and the lines are painted in white. The pupil is off center too. I'm hoping to find a replacement that matches the smaller one on the right eye. Lots of wear on both from the eyelids rubbing against the surface and taking the paint off. My plan is to fill the chipped areas with epoxy putty, then sand smooth and repaint.

Eyes I can keep shut, but the nose and teeth stick out all the time. Still waiting on most materials, but I got tired of looking at the pull tab hanging from his mouth and made him some new teeth from some imitation leather. I looked at pictures and guessed on the size and shape, but I think they turned out pretty good. Even though he still looks weird without a nose, the new teeth make him look much better already.

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On figures of this age, they used French stretch terry fabric to cover his nose, snout, jaw and lower lip. The tongue was made from satin. The previous owner reupholstered his snout and jaw, but didn't use the same type of cloth.

Unfortunately, stretch terry is not easy to find except online. The pink fabric looks fine so I'll leave that for now until I can find the correct fabric. My plan is to give him a new nose and recreate the lower lip and tongue. I ordered black and red stretch terry from fabrics.com. Hopefully they should arrive next week. There should be plenty of fabric left over if I have to redo them if/when I find the correct pink cloth.

I hope to work on him a little each day.
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AD Machine
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Where's his hat?
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80sgirl
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AD Machine
Jun 12 2015, 06:22 PM
Where's his hat?
Don't have an official one yet. I did buy a costume hat I'm planning on modifying.

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Looks a little small on him, though. The other one is too big. I can't seem to find a happy medium...
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Patrick Boots CEC

I'm Posting some photos of Chuck so we can get this right.
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It seems like they wore the hat used for employees..
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Trust me, the bot wears a different hat than the employees. It may be the same hat as the walkaround. I'm not sure since I haven't seen one of those in person, but it's definitely not an employee hat. You can see the bot wearing the employee hat in earlier pictures in this thread. It's made of very thin, fragile plastic and does not fit in the space between his ears.
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Patrick Boots CEC

Hmm. I Hope you can find a hat big enough.


(Did I Say post employyee hat? I Was thinking walkaround ;) )
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Patrick Boots CEC

Okay. I'm going to save 80sGirl the ride. There is these places called Hackerspaces with usable 3d Printers. I'm going to be using it for a project that I Will share here when the time comes.
http://hackerspaces.org
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Your Chuck E. is looking great so far! Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see him when he's all finished up. :cecwink: :cecwink: :cecwink:
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He's looking great! The nose size looks perfect. I'm thinking maybe the teeth could be a tiny bit larger, but maybe that's just me. The teeth sizes seem to vary a little on some of the Cyberamic Chucks from pictures I've seen. Looking forward to seeing how the finished eyes turn out!
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i can PM you a showtape mp3 or 2
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80sgirl
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Jun 15 2015, 12:22 PM
i can PM you a showtape mp3 or 2
Thanks for the offer. I have audio for all the PTT showtapes up through 1985. Waiting on Veganova to send me the ones up to CU so I can add them to the PTT dropbox folder.

Unfortunately, I'm probably not going to be programming the bot to much showtape audio. In most skits the other characters have at least some lines, even in songs where Chuck is the lead singer. He did do a lot more singing when Scott was his VA, so maybe once I get the later showtape audio from Vega I'll go through them and see if I can find some where he's singing solo.

I have other plans for him, though. You'll be seeing him in lots of videos, I hope. :cecwink:
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80sgirl
Jun 15 2015, 09:37 PM
JaydenT2005
Jun 15 2015, 12:22 PM
i can PM you a showtape mp3 or 2
Thanks for the offer. I have audio for all the PTT showtapes up through 1985. Waiting on Veganova to send me the ones up to CU so I can add them to the PTT dropbox folder.

Unfortunately, I'm probably not going to be programming the bot to much showtape audio. In most skits the other characters have at least some lines, even in songs where Chuck is the lead singer. He did do a lot more singing when Scott was his VA, so maybe once I get the later showtape audio from Vega I'll go through them and see if I can find some where he's singing solo.

I have other plans for him, though. You'll be seeing him in lots of videos, I hope. :cecwink:
do you have a YT channel? you should sub to mine
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JaydenT2005
Jun 15 2015, 11:25 PM
80sgirl
Jun 15 2015, 09:37 PM
JaydenT2005
Jun 15 2015, 12:22 PM
i can PM you a showtape mp3 or 2
Thanks for the offer. I have audio for all the PTT showtapes up through 1985. Waiting on Veganova to send me the ones up to CU so I can add them to the PTT dropbox folder.

Unfortunately, I'm probably not going to be programming the bot to much showtape audio. In most skits the other characters have at least some lines, even in songs where Chuck is the lead singer. He did do a lot more singing when Scott was his VA, so maybe once I get the later showtape audio from Vega I'll go through them and see if I can find some where he's singing solo.

I have other plans for him, though. You'll be seeing him in lots of videos, I hope. :cecwink:
do you have a YT channel? you should sub to mine
This forum is not for advertising your channel.
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Proud owner of a Studio C Alpha
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Jun 16 2015, 01:02 PM
JaydenT2005
Jun 15 2015, 11:25 PM
80sgirl
Jun 15 2015, 09:37 PM
JaydenT2005
Jun 15 2015, 12:22 PM
i can PM you a showtape mp3 or 2
Thanks for the offer. I have audio for all the PTT showtapes up through 1985. Waiting on Veganova to send me the ones up to CU so I can add them to the PTT dropbox folder.

Unfortunately, I'm probably not going to be programming the bot to much showtape audio. In most skits the other characters have at least some lines, even in songs where Chuck is the lead singer. He did do a lot more singing when Scott was his VA, so maybe once I get the later showtape audio from Vega I'll go through them and see if I can find some where he's singing solo.

I have other plans for him, though. You'll be seeing him in lots of videos, I hope. :cecwink:
do you have a YT channel? you should sub to mine
This forum is not for advertising your channel.
CEC West Coast does it.
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Patrick Boots CEC

Anywho, I have a YT, Pretty much everyone has a YT... Hope the restoration goes good.
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Your progress is looking great! Awesome job so far! Can't wait to see the final result!
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toycollector

Great progress with him! The new nose makes him look so much better.
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80sgirl
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Thanks. I'll take some more pictures once I get his replacement mech parts. Should be tomorrow according to USPS.

And yes, I do have a YouTube account but it's not so much a channel as it is "random videos and old cartoons I uploaded." I'm thinking about creating a new one for CEC stuff once the bot is ready to run.
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Woo! Can't wait to see him! And it would be AWESOME if you made a separate channel for Chuck! ;)
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80sgirl
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Got his replacement arm parts today, but it turns out the clevis piece on the end of the cylinder is too small to fit over the connector on the forearm. Apparently they beefed up the connection at some point. But I was still able to wire it up with a twist tie so Chuck could hold his mic for this pic.

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Looking good
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