Looney Bird Question...

[yorkmiss]

I just bought my first Looney Bird and was loking at the movements -
Someone had sent me a list of movements for each of the bots - but there is a movement not listed...
At the bottom of Looney Birds rail - on the far left there is a little cylinder with a flat metal pieve on the end. The metal piece looks like it fits into a plastic slot at the bottom of the track bar.
If the cyl was engaged - it appears it would lock Looney in the down position.
Any ideas why you would want to lock Looney down? Or is there some other use for this?
Thanks all,
Beth

[circuspizzafan]

That should be for his hands.

[yorkmiss]

So there are hands missing? Does anyone know of a picture of these hands so that I can build a replacement set?

Thanks!

[looneybird78]

Well the problem wont be adding the replacement set.... The problem is that the hands ran off of a different Mac Valve bank. The Looney Bank is utilized with his movement so when the hands came about as a retrofit they added them off of the props valve bank.

I think I have a picture somewhere I took of Snappers Looney Bird that had the hands... When I get home tonight I will look it up and email it to you off board.

[circuspizzafan]

I was going to add this early but I had to reinstall XP. If you would like to have another angle of it just let me know.

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[captslappy]

Yes this was a retrofit. They are not hands like you are thinking. They were specifically used in the Letters to Looneybird skits. All it is is 2 pieces of red fur on a white sheet of fiberglass which is the "letter". An envelop was stuck under one of the hands. They were used in a hand full of showtapes. I think there are about 4 skits total over 3 shows. You aren't really missing anything here. If you are interested, I think Trivia has 2 Letters to Looneybird skit, there is one in "Magic Night" and Billy Bob gets a letter from his grandmother in the Senior Citizens tribute. If you aren't using these shows you'll never miss them. They are not articulate hands or anything like that. They work off movement 6 of the props bank that runs the moon, sun, baby bear and spider.

[yorkmiss]

Thanks for all the info guys!
I know that they were not used too often - but one of my goals is to program my own shows... and I am a bit obsessive about having every little thing that they could have had working!
It sounds like they wont be too hard to make either - I just wanted to be sure of what they looked like. So, if I'm hearing correctly - it was not a pair of hands (one on each side of the barrell) but one hand-like thing that pulled up on his side - the same side he turns his head (I assume that was why they used that side too!)
Thanks again everyone - I hope to make you pround of me!

Beth

[circuspizzafan]

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[yorkmiss]

Thanks!:D :D :D :D
That pic is exactily what I needed!

[circuspizzafan]

Cool always happy to help.

[captslappy]

the way it works is this: There is a catch that moves in and out. When the hands were "activated" the air cylinder on the props bank thru the catch. As Looney Bird's head traveled up to the top, the catch would hit the hands and slide them up with his head on its rails. The hands would either go down when the catch cylinder was released or they would come back down with the head. In other words he could drop his hands down into his barrel and keep his head up but if his head went down the hands had to go down as well since the catch supporting them lowered with his head.

[yorkmiss]

I have another looney bird question -

I have a leaking air cylinder and need a rebuild kit. The place I take my stuff to can't find any numbers to tell them who made it.
Anyone have any information on these things?
Thanks.

[djsmurf]

I also have a Looney Bird. Mine was leaking air and no one could figure out how to put a new seal in it.

Snap told me to use Great Stuff or spray foam. You know, the stuff that you use to seal up a drafty window.

I sprayed some on the cable that goes through the cylinder on the top. I let LB up and down a few times. Then i had my wife hold the button to hold LB up while i spayed the line on the bottom of the cylinder. Let him up and down a few times again. I turned the air off for two days. I have no air leak anymore.

Walmart sells this in the paint section for about $5.00. Ask for Great stuff.

[yorkmiss]

WOW! Thank's for the advice... that saves me a LOT of time!

Have a great weekend, and again...
T H A N K Y O U !!!!!

Beth

[djsmurf]

Your welcome.

I found that out after i spent over $200.00 and the thing was STILL LEAKING!!

[lildook]

Are you spraying it on the just the cable so that the cable gets coated with that sticky goo,, or do you spray it at the top where the cable enters so that there is a big clump dried there?

[djsmurf]

It's just a clump of it on both ends. It gets on the cable and right before it enters the inside. But if you don't let the cable up and down a few times, it wont get inside. then it don't do any good.
Some of dries on the cable but some of the acess falls off. i wouldent clean it back off cause it may break the seal.