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Here's my latest prop. Chief butcher of the SWEENEY TODD MEAT MARKET, Gourmet meats cut to order.



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Great prop! Bought or made?

Definitely made. I'm too cheap to buy ready made.

Props to you for making that. Its a great prop! What type of a motor did you use?

I used one of those little air vent motors. Here's a link to a post that shows the mechanism.

Simple Arm Animation

Gruesome! I like it!

Hey doc where do you get air vent motors from?

Great Job Doc. It will make a great addition to your butcher shop!

Love it!

Reminds me of Sam the Butcher (Alice's BF) for some reason. Maybe the bow-tie?

Originally Posted by bayou reaper

Hey doc where do you get air vent motors from?

They are available from a number of sources. I got mine from here.

http://www.surpluscenter.com/item.as...tname=electric

For the price and ease of working with, they are great little motors. It didn't have quite enough torque to lift the finished arm, hand and knife assembly due to the weight, so I added a counter weight to a string attached to the shoulder pivot. At the arm goes down (by gravity), it lifts the weight. When the motor lifts the arm assembly, the weight goes down, pulling the arm up, helping the motor.

I used the same mechanism to make Dracula dring a beer in my Dracula's Pub set up.