The Grim Reaper!!

bit mad to think this is what it was like a few months ago.......

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Definitely an extensive restoration you've gone to the trouble of doing, looks excellent.

Were the top panels changed purely to upgrade them to Hardox (assuming the old ones were thin-ish steel or something?) or even to change the wheels to something a bit smaller and cover up the holes?

As you mentioned the wheel setup, do they do any good having the wheel cutouts when upside down or were the holes just put these because the wheels were too big?

Think the wheel cut outs were there as the weight was too tight to cover them up

cheers :)

I've started making new lids because the old ones are from series 7 of robot wars and show it lol they are bent and don't fit properly any more either

they were made from 20-20mm box with 1-2mm steel and with that each panel had 10mm poly on the top where as the new ones im making just have a 20-20mm outer box section frame and 3.2 hardox inside with no poly on the top.

im planning on having 10mm poly around the lower outsides as it used to have to hopefully save the base of the chassis taking anymore major damage/impacts as its not in amazing condition- but over all its not too bad

as for the wheel cut outs as matt said i think, and i don't think the wheels where big enough to run upside down. atm im either 125mm blue wheeling it or go kart wheeling it which in the end will determin whether or not any wheels will stick out of the top :)

Think I may be going for blue wheels with BB eventually, save some weight and give me space for buffers :twisted:

Ahh I see, thats cool :)

Is it going to be ok weight wise with all the additional Hardox then? Having a robot made from 10mm poly, I know it weighs a fair amount too, nothing compared to Hardox but if you're close to the limit it might well add up.

Keep your build diary nonsense to you're own thread Matt :wink: :lol:

Shall do Tony :lol:

They should be ok as the original had a lot more poly on and lambert powerdrive kits etc

yeah i know weights gonna get thrown on lol, on each side where its not vital im going to have 3-5mm ali panels, and especially on the side where i need to access the gas bottle etc, might even have that last section on the almost completed panel made from ali yet.

friday after work im picking up some steel plate to make the upstands on the armour like the original had- thats if i can't find any at work tomorrow lol

Nice one, wish I had a job where the stuff thats getting binned is perfect robot building material :lol:

was working on this till late last night, must have spent about 4-5 hours from 6pm onwards making a drive module using a bosch 750, gokart wheel that could just be bolted/welded into the chassis and it was a total waste of time lol - i was hoping it'd be good cause i could just get it all done at home. it would have worked but just took up far too much space and would have only allowed space for a 600g gas bottle :S

so rather then make it fast i really wana make it properly as it'll pay off in the long run

im really gonna have to set the time aside at work to make my bits