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is our electric motor driven animatronic. Here is a
photo inside our graveyard. |
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Powered
by a rotisserie
motor mounted at the bottom of our |
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gravestone, our P. K. Boo skeleton slowly rises and
lowers. |
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These
pictures were taken a year after our animatronic was built
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detailed illustrations do not exist. We will gladly
answer any questions you may have. |
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Here
is a closer view of our animatronic P.K. Boo. |
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gravestone is simply a piece of plywood fastened to
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of plywood to make a 90 degree angle which allows it to |
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stand upright. All of the electronic components are
mounted on the |
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on the piece of plywood that lays on the ground. |
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the side, you can see how we attached the |
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gravestone's plywood front to a piece of plywood that will
act as the |
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base. We had to experiment to get the correct |
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from the motor shaft and linkage to move our |
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the correct amount of length up and down. |
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behind, you can see how we mounted the rotisserie |
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inside a wooden housing we constructed. We had to
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enough space from the ground so that the swing arm didn't
hit bottom when |
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rotated underneath. |
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used the bracket that came with the rotisserie |
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It was a universal mount for gas grills. |
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is a closer view of the motor from behind. |
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Here
is another view from the side. |
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skeleton used in this prop was taken from a |
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operated hanging/shaking skeleton device. |
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It was dismantled and 12 volt LED lights were placed in
the |
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for use in this prop. |
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up of the motor from the front. The shaft was welded
with welding liquid inside |
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motor. It was the original rotisserie shaft that we
cut to the size we needed then |
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inside the motor. We attached an arm to the motor
shaft using a C-type clamp. |
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length of the shaft as well as the arms are important. |
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is the upper portion of the arm where the skeleton is |
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attached. We used a clamp to hold the arm in place,
but allowed |
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room for it to move properly. |
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above, the distance between the gravestone front |
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the motor mount can be seen. |
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We
had to make several different wooden structures |
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before we got it right. If you need the dimensions
we used, |
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will gladly supply them for you. |
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