Team Expat - Beetleweight Adventures

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Originally Posted by Eventorizon

That looks so slick! How did you get everything looking so neat?

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It's not that neat when you get close! Although I do file/sand pretty much everything.

I have made the main support structure pieces for the spinner. I started with the more simple one:

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/DSC_0092.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/DSC_0098.jpg

And just finished the second one:

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/DSC_0106.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/DSC_0121.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/DSC_0126.jpg

Not sure what to do next, either the other-end-shaft-support (which bolts to the more simple piece above) for the brushless or the other wheel cover thing.

Damn son. Somebody give this bum a job so he doesn't have time to make stuff this nice and make me look bad.

Somebody give me a job so I can buy the tools necessary to make stuff this good.

The thing is he did this with about 10 euro worth of tooling. Cheapy hacksaw and cheapy files/needle files. Impressive.

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Originally Posted by Fathersplat

Somebody give me a job so I can buy the tools necessary to make stuff this good.

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I just hope I can match it with a *insert high number here* mill! And harry is right. A cheap file and some sandpaper and a good vice is all it took. And time... lots of time...

Lol thanks guys. Hacksaw to begin with, lots and lots of filing, a touch or two on the bench grinder to accelerate removing some bulk and some holes courtesy of the pillar drill. I don't have a good/big vice, wish I did lol. Each one took maybe 7-8 hours from marking out to taking pics.

What are the spec's on the machine? Weapon motor, ESC's, Batteries?

2826 1200kv NTM, picked for it's tininess.

Generic pick-any-of-these 30a BlueSeries thing from Hobbyking. Drives are 10a botbitz.

Turnigy (not nano-tech) 800mah 35c 3s pack, which should give me *just* enough run time with the small motor.

The weapon reduction is roughly 1.44:1, giving a theoretical top speed of 10,000rpm. I'll be chuffed with 8,000 real-world.

Some pretendobot 4 u:

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/.../DSC_00842.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/.../DSC_00852.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/.../DSC_00892.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/.../DSC_00922.jpg

It might be a good thing you're in Spain most of the time :D

Will it fight in Germany?