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In the end, it became welded. And rewelded after the first test. And made a spare that broke by looking at it. Wrong kind of steel for the axle.
That motor and gearing put a mountain of torque on that poor little sprocket.
Oh well, I hope the last fix I created will do the trick. We'll see at Maidstone.
If this doesn't work, I'll weld the bugger out of it.
Mario has been great with this, in both the results and the turn around time of new potential solutions.
The latest I believe was a single piece of steel, turned down to a shaft on one end (for the sprocket) then left large to screw onto the drill shaft, with dual grub screws.
If this breaks, I'll genuinely be surprised. Indeed, we shall see at Maidstone!
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My internet time is almost up so I'll keep it short in saying thank you to everybody at MMM so much for a fantastic event! We had a brilliant time, despite the issues obvious to those there (Mmm smell those motors burn! Hear those gearboxes strip!) we managed to come second in the main event, which was completely unexpected. All thanks to those who helped us out, many names escape me, but you know who you are.
For a first outing with our second robot and our third event ever, we're pretty happy. Pretty major changes will have to happen to make T2 more reliable, a rethink of our drive motors mainly, as well as improvements on the lifter control as the current setup is (electronically, I mean) clunky.
I'll try and do a proper write-up once we're through Maidstone and have a full damage report!
Ellis
Videos!!!!!!
Using a dongle which is excruciatingly slow, can't upload footage until we get back home really. Hoping others will start uploading as we're equally desperate to re-watch our/the fights!
We're home now, and the video uploading process has started. The first is this 10+ minute long hockey game. Was seriously fun, and our team won!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8uDqntFsY
Some of the time is like they are standing still whilst you storm in and smash the puck out from under them, literally in the case of Satanix! We have to bring that to the UK!
Yeah, once I got the hang of it, my strategy went from score if possible but mainly don't break the robot to well it isn't broken so might as well headbutt everything, and it worked out well in the end!
I really must stress how much fun this was for the drivers and for spectators. Something like this would be brilliant at one of the HW events, instead of just sticking all the feathers in at once. I can very easily see it becoming a thing.
Satanix is the perfect shape for hockey!
Last time I played before this, my team won 6-2 and I scored 5, and helped with one of the opponents goals (Kashei rammed the puck into my front wedge and went right over into the goal :P).
Massive amount of fun, really should try it here.