The fact that C-3PO has a seam running alongside his head suggests he is made from deep-drawn stamped sheet metal halves
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Yes. The presence of screws implies the existence of a tool to drive them as well. A screwsaber.
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And those elements, and the galactic standards they measure against, the galactic standards and certification association, and the founders and all 3,678 standards association distinguished chairmen have their own wookiepedia profiles.
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The human scrotum also display a seam line aligned with vertical axis symmetry centre
That’s because we’re all Siamese twins joined in the middle
This suggests that human testicles are made from deep-drawn stamped sheet metal halves.
If I recall, the scrotum is the same tissue as the labia; they are anatomically analogous structures. In males, both sides fuse together at the center as the fetus develops its sexual characteristics. The vertebrate jaw is also two mandibles fused together at the middle (our c...
Yeah? He’s a mass manufactured droid covered in a thin metal shell that needs to be removable for service. His covering isn’t a structural component and it’s not heavy armor. A casting would be too much post processing and mass, a forged component would be massively overkill, ...
You can have stamped parts. But the design implies a one sided die with a big draft angle. Which means cheap tooling. C-3po was made by space accountants!
> He’s a mass manufactured droid Not sure he is. Did anakin build him? Or just repair an old mass manufactured droid?
In Attack of the Clones we even see the presses they make Droid parts on
Though those presses were for different droids. The Droid Factory was for battle droids (specifically the B1 model), not protocol droids.
This surprises you? That a droid made by a child slave in a scrapyard junk shop was made from repurposed components?
Protocol droids are actually standardized robots, all of them have this feature, Anakin just made him out of a bunch of spare protocol droid parts. Also, the stamped metal was added after Anakin left.
Yeah, you gotta remember that they were all practical props made by a props department. So things like vacuum forming plastic are going to be very useful, and if you can hide it off as metal forming, even better.
Well, yea. Would be a bit hard to have a functioning robot if he was solid metal.
*sad t-1000 noises*
yes, to the midriff. an anterior and posterior stamped pair coming out of a single die that produces both halves in one STOMP
Which begs the question: Was it done this way for economical reasons? Mass production? You typically do this when you don't want to spring on complicated tooling.
They are mass produced, and because they mostly fullfil diplomatic and business roles the shell doesn't need to be anything super durable so you use the cheap stamped metal.
Droids aren't people on such a fundamental level formatting them to factory (murder) is standard operating procedure after a few years or they get glitchy (sapient).\ He's lucky someone finished his casing for him after anakin left at all. Even luckier he got nepotized into a ...
Which raises the question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Yes. I think they added that detail getting the idea from the Metropolis (1927) female robot. Probably looked futuristic in 1927, and very retro in 1976. So many years ago I was a toolmaker and worked on stuff like deep drawn shells. Very old tech, still a great way to make ...
Yeah, that’s probably the Doylist answer. George Lucas is absolutely a student of film history, so there’s no way the robot from Metropolis wouldn’t have been in his head when conceiving the character. Actually, if you look at Ralph McQuarrie’s concept art for the character, t...
Obviously made of recycled T-sixteens that Luke used to bullseye womp rats in back home. : )
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It’s crazy how such a tiny design choice makes him feel more believable as a functioning robot.
Or it suggests that Anthony Daniels needed a way to actually get his head inside.
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I'm pretty sure that clanker's exterior is made of polished c272 alloy.
my uncle was metalworker in Kharkiv, he always said you can tell good stamping by the seam line. C-3PO seam is too clean - probably machined after stamping to look fancy for movies
And my empty water glass implies that *I've been thirsty.*
the idea that C-3PO was manufactured using real world metallurgy techniques is the kind of overthinking i come to this sub for. someone give this person a grant
We like the model to be alive when its skin is stamped on so it can experience suffering and generate personality faster. Their complaining makes others miseries seem more bearable like a lowkey narcissism promotion.
Hey OP, how would you feel if you didn't have breakfast today?