Not against the likes of iron awe tho eh. Unless it was a solid roof :p
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Not against the likes of iron awe tho eh. Unless it was a solid roof :p
Nah, your right, might be a bit sketchy. LOL. Just do whiteboards then, so you have the power to choose who youre up against!
I€™m not sure how many middles are gonna be on the seen in the near future and it would be cool if we had clusters again in the heavies anyway.
I would have loved to fit Gemini!
:)
Maxus and Tanto Jr would make a wicked cluster.
The current situation sort of outlaws clusters automatically because, to fight heavyweight flippers, you have to be about 70+kg (based on the feedback Ive been getting), so two middles as a cluster would only be able to enter on the same terms as a middle on its own anyway.
Also, as I understand the cluster rule, the machines must enter the arena as one machine and then split so you couldnt just enter two in a tag-team style. However, this is a very easy prob to solve (Typhoon Twins using string and paper anyone? Genius that).
Bit of gaffa tape would do the job, Still be able to fight heavys just not the powerful flippers.
Still be able to fight heavys just not the powerful flippers.
Which rules out most of them. lol. And as Barnsley proved, its very very rare that there is a match completely devoid of flippers.
Theres a few robots Maxus could fight. Voodoo Chile, Tanto JR, Cabrakan, Puck, The Saint, And his Army, Big Nipper, Kan Opener, Tanto, Tornado, Storm Force And maybe some other LP Flippers.
Like i said id like to have a 3 way battle Yours(and other Daves and marcos) robot, Liams robot and my robot.
Next time were all at an event well have to make sure one of the whiteboards is HP-flipper-less. lol. Cardiff if youre going Tom? Cabrakan will be there we reakon, even if all three of us may or may not be.
Whos not going Dave?
You two are 100% going, and I am 90% going. lol. I just told you that on facebook didnt I. Ha.
Yeah ill try get there. Cabrakan beyond been switchable from HW to MW and back again? You said you was hoping to do that before.
Yeah, I reakon its probably beyond that, we came out fairly heavy. Even with just the chisel on its about 85kg.
Just over double the weight of maxus. Could be a good little fight. Just gotta get liam to agree to fight too... Nobody says maxus is too small :p
Sounds like a good idea to me. I reakon once a competition was established, more people would indeed think it more worthwhile putting one together and the catagory would grow. Id be interested in it if some fights get going.
Whats the weight field? I know the highest is 55kg, whats the lowest? I seem to remember it being 24kg?
27.5kg to 55kg
BTW is it just me or is there a load of previous post missing?
The forum move seems to be messing things up, archives are spilling everywhere...
I was hoping to build a middleweight at some stage, for such a nondescript town Pontefract has an alarming amount of places that sell wheelchairs...better get my featherweight working first though.
Well, Dave Weston picked Voodoo up for me at the weekend, So ill be getting that at the uk champs. Then hopefully i get stuff sorted to build my next one.
Voodoo is staying at my house, I might just steal it. lol, only joking.
There are rumours starting to rumble of a team Godzilla Dies in Hell middleweight...watch this space.
Youd have to hotwire it to steal it, No link!
what is voodoo?
think its full name is voddo chile it was froggys middle but he sold it
any pics? just being nosey lol
Voodoo Chile
http://www.roamingrobots.co.uk/?pages=robot&id=1172http://www.roamingrobots.co.uk/?pages=robot&id=1172
Even I, with my extremely duff robot building knowledge, could hotwire round a removable link Tom! Ha, but I wont. Dave showed me a video of it, its pretty cool.
just needs a link and radio gear sticking in it then i can have a play. Might need charging. Ill take it to my mates house saturday night and get it working.
So this rumour of a middle weight Dave... What were the rumours saying it might be like?
The rumours are becoming more solid. Im building it, with help from Marco. It wont be anything special, a 4 wheel drive pushbot of some kind, but we have some bits lying around we can use. Shouldnt take very long. Im guessing itll end up like a middleweight Trojan.
nice. trojan is a bit maxus like. So make it like that... Wed have ourselves a little cluster :p
Might put an electric lifter on it too. Who knows? Watch this space.
Id like to see a Lawrie Special Middle weight, That would be interesting
lol, the middleweight will be a bit more of a joint effort. I do have a Lawrie special heavyweight en route however, lol, so that will fall apart no doubt.
I have to admit I actually thought it might be a case of right, Ive stuck all the Hardox I can find on my heavy and its still bloody underweight... :proud:
And be fair, none of your heavier-than-ant bots have actually fallen apart that I know of?
Only a couple of my ants have fallen apart really. Canary Wharfare didnt technically fall apart, but it was a on-hit KO case in its second Barnsley fight. lol.
The heavy will be a bit more...original
Well iv broke voodoos axe already, But it does selfright so thats cool. I think imma have to get a van. Got too many robots now.
Got a quick vid of it self righting, Cant vid it starting with axe closed cos gearbox is still broke and it needs to be lifted about 2 inch by hand for it to engage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ZvIgivSWE
I'm gunna get on with my middle I think. Tom, you need someone to battle, lol.
Well if you build a middle your very likely to become champ, Voodoo isnt gonna put up much of a fight, My feather pushes it about with ease. Its not hard to get under, its got high ground clearance and the front wedge is about an inch or more off the ground. So theres basicly Tanto JR and Maxus you will have a good fight with. 1 mistake by the driver of maxus or tanto, or 1 fault in the robot and ur champ. With the middleweight championship being like it is in boxing/UFC/wrestilng where it can be won or lost in a single fight i can see the championship changing hands alot of times. As soon as sumbodys ready to fight theres a championship ready and waiting to be won. Liams challenged voodoo to a fight with storm force. Can we pretend storm force is a MW? Get some HDPE panels to replace the steel on Cabrakan?
We need 10 MW robots.
Mr Stu said if we get 10 robots we get our own weight class on the Roaming robots site. I think it can be done...
Ill make a new MW Database page. Then all we gotta do is get 10 MW's listed on there. Common theres gotta be some old MW's out there than can be put on the database.
Whoop Whoop thats 2 on the database :p 1/5 of the way to success i think :p
i might be making a middleweight, i will have a spare speedo after i update mythras to a wotty, so il bung that in there,iv also got a 12v sla so il put that in, get some motors from the local scrappy, a few scooter wheels and voila! 1 low-tech middle :proud:
jack
Nice one.once iv fixed voodoos axe that might get sold. bit tricky to transport 2 middles atm.