Mantis mk. 3

leorcc · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:31 am

After a failure of the hydraulic pump back in 2008 Mantis was put aside to be repaired on a later date. Now Mantis wil return to the arena in Fairford. It has lost some weight in batteries and gained some in armour, but if our scale is correct we should still be under the 100kg mark.

We'll do a fresh paintjob if we have the time for it. :proud:

psycho_fling · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:30 pm

that looks great...

have you used the same model of pump or a better one? any idea of tip force or max weight lift?

leorcc · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:14 pm

psycho_fling wrote:

that looks great...

have you used the same model of pump or a better one? any idea of tip force or max weight lift?

The pump is exchanged for a Vivoil Vivolo pump with a stock hydraulic valve block. I have no idea of tip force but it won't be much. It only needs to clamp and lift, it is not a crusher like Tiberious or Kan-Opener. It can lift 100kg with ease.

leorcc · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:03 am

It's ready to go. :mrgreen:

Rick has put the finishing touches on it last night. Click on the thumbnail for the full photo album.

k_c_r · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:50 am

It looks great guys

I'm liking the LED eyes as well

Is that a couple of Speed 900s I see? For driving the pump I'm assuming?

Best of luck this weekend

ady · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:23 pm

looks awesome, wish i kept that one lol, i have a video somewhere of having 3 grown guys standing on the forks and lifting them up, we worked it out to be about 32 stone! and that was with the old pump.

looks heck of alot faster with the new pump

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