Added 4 LEDs for Daidaimaru to light up the translucent display piece. Sound chip is retained from the original KO toy. Also added a power on-off switch to save battery life. Here's the core of the new bigger blade for the Daidaimaru, hot-glued to 1 side of the Daidaimaru... though I did not make it as big as I initially wanted because the handle was too small to begin with...
2 thinner pieces of ABS was then cut to cover the 2 sides of the core blade...
... and hot-glued to seal the edge...
As mentioned earlier, the sound circuit is the one that comes with this KO toy, and surprisingly, it is able to power up 4 red LEDs quite nicely... I muffled the speakers to be of the similar volume as the Musou Saber's (self-recorded) sounds...
And after adding a power on-off switch, the KO Daidaimaru is restored...
Next is the Musou Saber, which has a super short blade even for the authentic version... Made a longer blade (core) and also a top cover... looks much better...
... especially when compared to the original blade length... 2 thinner pieces are also added tot he core for the blade surface pattern...
A new 4.5V button cell battery compartment is added to replace the 3V one that was on the original KO toy, as my sound recording circuits use 4.5V...
... and added sounds for the normal gun shooting, sword slashing (sounds recorded from the authentic DX Musou Saber toy), "lock on and count up till Infinite Number" and final attack sound (sounds recorded from DX DJ Gun). But these circuits do not have light when playback, and also I was lazy to make a transistor-amp circuit for the light, there is basically no light for this toy, except for the "lock-on and count up to Infinite Number" sound, which uses an earlier sound recording circuit that has light when playback... Doesn't matter to me as the Daidaimaru already has 4 LEDs... hahahaha...
Final comparison picture....
A quick demo clip for the restoration of my DX KOs of the Kamen Rider Gaim toys. All are bootleg / KO versions. Forget to mention I restored the "lock on" sound feature for Sengoku Driver; partial failure because the activating switch is unstable, the "lock on" sound may sometimes be accidentally activated when the blade cuts the lock seed cover, especially if the lock seed is not properly tight fixed into the lock seed hole... and due to the type of sound recording circuit used, the "lock on" sound will also be activated when the activating switch is released (authentic driver has a "lock off" sound), but this I don't mind...
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