RogueTwo Robots

Well the Rebel Robots draw is up as you probably all have seen. Kaizer Mk.3 gets a baptism of fire by being drawn in the same heat as Kishar, Pillow Torque and Hornet 2. Ive never fought against Kishar or Pillow Torque but one has an immensely powerful spinning disc and one has Astroflight C40s for drive. And then of course, theres just the small matter of Hornet 2. Easiest heat Ill ever have! :uhoh:

Maybe I shouldnt be writing off my hopes just yet however. The chassis of Kaizer Mk.3 will be made up of interlocking bulkheads of HDPE, 12mm thick. That should hopefully stand up to a good few hits from Kishars blade. Same goes for Hornet 2, although I expect to be tossed around a lot in that fight so Ill need to make sure my internal connections are all up to the impact stresses. Kaizer will be out-maneouvred, out-run, and out-pushed by Pillow Torque (to be expected when you put cordless drill motors against Astroflight C40s) but you never know, a quick slide under of the lifting forks, a charge against the wall and you could have yourself one stacked robot :)

Drumroll got drawn against Pain In The Asp, Tuff Luck 2 and Hooligan. Pain In The Asp is the one I reckon could cause me most damage. Tuff Luck 2 will be resiliant to attacks with its hardox shell and Hooligan is a bit of an unknown quantity although I have seen footage of it in action. Its got three flat sides and the front wedge so could be a bit challenging to gain purchase but the design of the new teeth for Drumroll will hopefully be able to grab it somewhere.

Jamie
Team Terminal Damage

where did you see the draw.
looked at the rebel robots site couldnt find it.
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ROB....

Hi Rob,

Its in the Rebel Robots thread in the FRA General Chatter section:
http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/discus/messages/59/14504.html?1229373928http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/disc...tml?1229373928

Smash is in a fun heat :)

:):):)

thanks Jamie :proud:

Update

Kaizer is coming along steadily (Ive got pics but not uploaded them yet - soon hopefully though). The chassis is pretty much complete; needs armour coverings to finish it off. The insides still need a lot of work - most of the time so far has been spent on parts for the lifting mechanism. I got it all finished and did a trial run tonight. Without a load on the forks, it lifts smoothly and briskly, got just over 90 of movement.

Under load is a different story however; even though the batteries were a little drained, the linear actuator struggled to lift a 9.5kg Drumroll. The front bulkhead started to bend meaning the lifting force was lost. Part of this is down to the leverage ratio used and the fact that the actuator is rated at only 40kg.
Having a slight rethink, I decided to try and see if an Okin Deltadrive actuator would fit in its place - and its a perfect substitute - all 8000N force of it :proud:
Got the spare weight so with a little modification, it should be in place tomorrow. Its considerably slower than the Linac model I was using but hey it works.

Ive also come to realise that great though HDPE is for armour, its not ideal for load-bearing structural components and chassis members. It deforms too easily so when I upgrade Kaizer to a 4-bar-lifter, if I still choose to use plastics I will opt back to Nylon for various parts of the chassis.

On the Drumroll front, its almost all ready to go. Drive is fine, weapon motors are fine, drum is on its way this coming week so it should just be a case of fitting it in place and away we go. Weight will be an issue so Ill need to have a look and see what needs to go and where best to take it from. If the worst comes to the worst, Ill drop a Speed 900, although that would reduce the performance of the drum which wouldnt do the quality of manufacturing of the drum much justice.
Other than that, the robot is looking cool with some body enhancements. Im keeping pics under wraps just now (with exception of a couple of people Ive shown on MSN :lame:) so youll just have to wait until Rebel Robots to see the new look :)

Toodles for now,
Jamie

http://www.ayrshirerobotics.vze.comwww.ayrshirerobotics.vze.com

Update

Well Drumrolls drum arrived on Wednesday, but I had to hold off until Friday to get my hands on it. Firstly, its a superb piece of engineering from ALK Engineering a.k.a Mr. Kenny :)
Its very rugged and much better than the old version (which isnt hard!). Its got bearings fitted this time, so it runs very smoothly on the shaft. It also weighs in at 4.2kg, 1.7kg more than the old drum. This, however, puts the robot in at 13.8kg without the self-righting hoops so Ill probably have to go for a thinner top panel as Ive removed almost all the weight I can from the chassis.

The single biggest weight now (excluding the drum) is the rear armour which is 2kg. Might have to swap that for some ti after Rebel Robots to lighten things up. The other option is to remove a Speed 900 but after todays tests Im loathed to do that :P

Got the drum spinning after tensioning some rather loose belts. Its looking deadly and could cause some lovely damage :)
However when testing it (which resulted in the old drum getting thrown right across the garden and the old chassis about halfway) one of the battery packs, which were sitting loosely on top as Id been using them in Kaizer, jumped up with the impact of the drum and fell into the path of one of the teeth! It fell out the robot but I didnt notice the impact and thought it was just shock from the hit that made it fly out. Nope - two minutes later, hiss hiss smoke smoke, Id wrecked one of my cells. So I now need to get a replacement pack (dont have an iron suitable for the job, plus I can keep the duffed pack as spare cells) before I can test Drumroll out again.

But all is looking well so far :D

I was gonna say a bit more but Im tired so Im off to bed! :)

Jamie

http://www.ayrshirerobotics.vze.comwww.ayrshirerobotics.vze.com

Yowch! Sounds like a we got one deadly drummer on the block! :)

Good luck with it, Jamie. Really impressive so far. :)

we need a video!!!!!! PLEASE iw ould also agree about the excellent work Kenny can do

Lol welcome to the wonderful world of smoking batteries in spinning machines jamie :proud:

Sounds good......so....uhhh....how is kaizer looking? :)