#thesqueakeesaga

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Squeakee is Recovering...

Squeakee has returned from his check up, but he isn't doing any better. I put batteries in him again after his procedure and he has no problem making noises on his own, but won't move anymore. I'm convinced his board is fried. Squeakee is okay with this, as he is happy here at home. Squeakee will continue to live happily in my care. This is not the outcome we expected, but Squeakee will be okay.

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This week in Josh's Bot Shop....

Fountains, Cats, Dogs, and Furbies!

1. Fountain Fixing!

I have a small water fountain, and upon checking recently, it stopped working. The fountain had no access points to be serviced, so I decided to go the wild route and shatter it open.

Once I cracked into the inside, I narrowed it down to a seized motor. After disassembling the inside and smacking the motor on the workbench a couple times, the motor sprung to life!

I very carefully pieced together the shattered pieces, and reassembled the inside. The fountain was fixed! Here's it in action...

2. A Lucky (Cat) Day!

Next on the agenda was restoring a 1970s lucky cat! He's been in my possession for years, but I presumed he didn't function due to missing parts. (I thrifted him and noticed he was very hollow inside, with a huge hole on the bottom.)

Upon further inspection, all his parts were intact and the hole is common on lucky cats!

So then why wasn't he working?

The diagnosis: RUST!

So, I got to work sanding off 50 years of rust that had accumulated on this poor cat. I had no intentions of taking him apart as I knew it was a genuine lucky cat and didn't want to Destroy The Lucky....

But as I was working, the entire inside of the cat broke loose! The glue holding the base on all these years finally fell free with the pressure I was putting on it.

As unfortunate as this was, it gave me access to the inside of the cat to check for damage. (And to be cleaned! he had COB WEBS!)

Nothing was damaged.... so I completed the rust removal.

All was looking good! I put him back together... fixed some bent springs he had...

here he is finished! good as new!

I did a test with him after this and he ate two batteries in four days. A hefty boy!

3. The Squeakee Saga Comes to a Close...

I never exactly mentioned this before, but since my last Squeakee post, he has been disassembled waiting for replacement parts. However, getting those replacement parts isn't on my radar right now, so I put Squeakee back together.

Here he is sitting comfortably after assembly! he's much happier now.

4. Furbies and Shelves and Furbies, Oh My!

Lastly this week, I've been putting up new shelves like crazy. Ideally I'd like to get all my furbies onto shelves since my collection has become very large. Also... I bought two new furbies! They haven't arrived yet, but I'll make another post when they get home!

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Help!!! Squeakee needs Repairs!

Please share this around!

I just found this new friend at a thrift store today, but upon testing him out, he seems to have a few problems. he does incomplete motions, isn't responsive a lot of the time, and shuts off at random times. I've tried five different sets of batteries (with the same result) and the more I use him, the worse he seems to work. is his board fried? how can I fix this? please let me know if you have any information on how to repair him!

(don't worry, he is very happy here at home though.)