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Gary, Like your robot its looking good.
Question: When, where will you be able to use it?
I am currently building a spinner with a domed disk, pressed from 1/4 steel. I have stopped building at the moment because i cant see were i could play with it. Or are you hoping Robot Wars will return
Gabriel, to be honest I do not care if I cannot run it anywhere. I am building it because I want a spinner. I have designed it in such a way that the rear weapon pod can be removed easily and another weapon (axe or flipper) put in its place easily enough.
And if I can run it somewhere then, bonus! :)
Cool my thoughts exactly. I have only ever built spinners.
I think I will do a similar thing re interchanable parts, will your robot be able to self right.I am half way through, the self righting part of my robot raising the disc through 180 degrees the only problem being keeping the disc on a rigid base, dont want it to be weakned by the self righting part
gabriel, my philosophy is,
If you get flipped then your driving isnt good enough to be in the arena :)
quote:
If you need a schrimech, youre not a good driver and shouldnt be in robot wars in the first place. - Team Mace, RW series 2
Quite the irony, as it lost, getting flipped by Chaos 2, in the next series. I wouldnt exactly recommend tempting fate...
Gary; Typhoon was a fully rotating dome with downward facing teeth once spinning almost impossible to flip without being destroyed. I think more credit goes to design than driving ability in this case.Your new robot i tink will be vunerable to fliping no matter how well its driven
Gabriel, I have heard that comment so many times.
If anything I would say its the other way around. It may have been near impossible to flip once up to speed however getting anywhere near that speed was always the problem. The entire spinning cone was a blessing and a curse at the same time.
Gabriel I think I will do a similar thing re interchanable parts,
i have interchangeable parts :) called 2 x c02 bottles (lol)
The Typhoon series were excellent machines but they had certain vulnerabilities which with time would have been constantly exploited.
If a Typhoon was hit ABOVE the cutters then it would go flying without causing damage to the attacker.
No robot is perfect and any series winner needs a little luck (as well as an excellent robot) to win. In series 7, Typhoon did well to avoid robots like Bigger Brother and Stinger, whose weaponry would not have suited Typhoon.
The higher speeds of the newer heavyweights mean that Typhoon would have even less time to get up to speed and get hit a lot harder by more heavily armoured opponents. The 10 mph or so of series 7 robots is often now 20 mph of the current live circuit machines.
Gary you stated
If you get flipped then your driving isnt good enough to be in the arena
What i am trying to say is no matter how good a driver you are a flipper will almost always be able to get underneath you. Especially as your new disc will probaly be at least 5cm off the ground. One flip and you are gone, I would add that a schrimech is essential for a good long lasting fight