Team Death - New Heavyweight

[team death]

The favoured day of the week (Sunday) for Robot building went reasonably well
-you never seem to get all you want to do done but progress was made never the less.
Adam and I were joined by Adams friend Niall and we seemed to work well together
with each having a knowledge in certain areas.

We mainly worked on the jaws system again, including the winch,chains,and sprocket
system.
First we removed the winch as the webbing was far too long for our purposes so we
cut it down to a reasonable length, secondly we cut out a hole in the robot frame to
insert an encapulated nut under where the winch sits and bolted it back in place.
After shortening the jaws pulling chains and linking them together
with a split link we turned our attention to the double sprocket that was held onto
the snakemaster stablising bar by mole grips.
Niall suggested that bolts were the prefered method for holding it it place so we
set about drilling holes in the snakemaster metal strip-this turned out to be
pretty tough going but after sharpening the drill bits between drilling the
breakthrough was made and the sprocket bracket is now bolted in place.

During the week I had fitted a sprocket to a matching drive motor we had
bought and fitted this motor and chain into position.


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