New pinsor :)

get it working for g ford would be grat to watch and i guess its a fw

whens guildford? and yeah its a feather

um 19th of june :)

Or since you're in Edinburgh so often these days, bring it to RL at the Nation Museum of Flight on the 19th :)

lol jamie, think im done in scotland for a while now :P but they both on the 19th of june? wont be ready for then might be driving but thats it lol really dont wana rush it so i make it all right n that :)

ohh gonna make a rammer shell for it aswell - like it was going to be anyway so i can use it without the claw attached (Y) cut all the hardox for it awhile agoo

Looking good dude, glad your putting them bulkheads I gave you to use.

By far one of the most awesome looking FW's to date. It looks awesome, and did a pretty neat job in testing as we see
from that pic.

Im guessing the shell will be Hardox or HDPE

thanks man

more done today, got all the pullys attached to each wheel and made a battery holder that attaches to the claw section so that if i wana remove the claw and use it as a hardox box the batteries, speedo and litterally everything comes out the robot in one so it can all be mounted inside the actual robot differently.

as for chassis now thats litterally it, now just a case of waiting for my drive belts to arrive and im sacrificing my day at download on thursday to get them on and wire the robot up so i can give it a drive about lol then im off there friday morning instead :)

pics,

first one showing the seperate claw section- this is quite heavy but not too bad whole thing now is 9.25 kg, so im hoping for hardox on the front and possibly ti sides and i've still gotta cover up the actuator somehow, when i use it as a hardox box the whole top lid, sides and all will be 3.2 hardox or even 4mm because the base weights litterally not even 2 kg

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heres one just generally of it all together with speedo and its wires just all loose- i didnt mount that yet cos i wana play around with the arrangement before i finally decide where it goes

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That looks really really cool, something about six-wheel-drive that just looks bad-ass!

One question though, how are all the wheels connecting together? Usually with 6WD belt/chain drives you have to have two pulleys/sprockets on one wheel so they can all connect together. Because if you connect your powered wheels to your middle wheels, the pulley on the middle wheel will be occupied, leaving no room to put a belt leading to the third wheel. Or are you just running one long belt around it all and putting in some tensioners to increase the engagement between the belt and pulley on the middle wheel?

thanks jamie, yeah the belts 450mm, and its something like 100mm too long so ill tension it around the middle wheels pully so it engages properly :)