Armour

To give you an idea what type of armour you will need to stand up to the likes of Scorpion Evil, on Dragon 2 I have 20mm nylon inner armour with 10mm Ti on top of this on the front and 4mm Hardox on the sides and rear. But like people have said you dont have to fight the spinners, even if you are in the arena in a fight you can ask them not to attack you and we wont unless its a competition battle.

Hows Baramot these days.. Fully recovered I hope! :uhoh:

No still in bits

ill put the cad in my profile in a min the front scoop is gunna be ti or hardox and then the top bottom and back are polycarb while the wheel covers will be hardox so i was thinkin of puttin an extra plate of meta lon the top and bottow and replacin the back poly for hardox

a lot of edges for a spinner to get hold of there. id rethink the design, triple the thicknesses of armour, or dont fight spinners.

I like the design, has potential, as long as you are a good driver and keep that wedge pointed at the spinners, it should be ok also assuming its thick enough.

Thought about joining the side armour onto the front wedge? means spinners only have one edge to catch on (the corner) instead of the 2 they got atm, also welding the sides of the scoop to the sider armour would give it alot of strength.

I agree with Ed tho- looks cool :)

only prob is im only 11 and cant weld dunno if i could bolt it would it still be strong enuf and were can i get some sheet metals?

Why does everyone worry about being taken apart by spinners so much?
If you get drawn against one, you go in there and get killed! Thats the point int it, or am I missing something?
I may just be slightly mental, but if everyone designs that way, every robot will just end up as either a spinner or a box/wedge with lots of armour. I dont think fighting spinners should be the main thing in mind when you build a bot.

(Message edited by Dgr on April 28, 2006)

Dave, your 100% right its not just you.. some people are quite protective of there machines because of there cost or time spent together during the build and repairs. People just judge featherweights on how well they would stand up to spinner more than anything else, but sadly that just leads to the whole Ti and Hardox pushers/spinner beaters. Quite a controversial subject.

Chris - ^_^