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All he has to do is do up a cad and get it all custom machined and it dont cost him a penny (sponsers pay it all)
LOL @ Ian - if only ! Yes I draw something in CAD, and then I get a completed robot posted to me.
No disrespect to you Ian, but I think you need a reality check !
Ed
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Im up to whats on my profile pic (about to load) at the moment. Thats a 50cm titanium, vertical spinning blade... Ill be going to rcwars on the 18th, is anyone else going? :)
Cheers, Ewan
Yeah im going to watch,
and from what i have herd, no roof on the arena, so i would have thought RC Wars wont be allowing your vertical spinner to run. Unless they get a roof put on which is better than Romaing Robots roof.
Also ewan, the motor is fixed somehow to that big wood thing. The big wood thing is then somehow attached to the wooden base. I would personaly not be happy due to safty of that running at FeatherWeights.org event how it looks in that picture.
Mr Stu
I think Alan Young said something about them having a roof that they put over the arena Stu - am sure I read it somewhere. There was a time when you could question whether you needed a roof with a feather spinner, that certainly aint the case any more !
Ed
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(to Craig-) Its a very big featherweight vertical spinner, thats my point. (to Stu) The whole weapon structure is screwed together by the eqivelent of 6mm bolts, only they are screws. The wood is 2cm Mahogany (tough stuff!) with 3cm softwood.
If RC wars doesnt have a roof (thought it did have) then I myself am having second thoughts on running it there. Ill have to see what happens...
It should be perfectly safe at featherweight.org, as that has a roof...
Cheers, Ewan
Ed, it didint have an arena roof, few people who went to the event last time confirmed to me it didnt have a roof, and spinners were running.
Slow Speed ish horizontal might just be ok, how ever not recomended and wouldnt be at FW.org events, but i hope they dont allow Vertical Spinners to run without a roof. Even a small low Knetic Energy blade like Kitty can make a big peace of polycarb and bits of metal fly over an arena as high as Roaming Robots.
And it did. (But was contained by their roof.)
Mr Stu
(Ewan posted before my last reply, this post is to reply to Ewans reply, how many replys can i put in this reply sentance?)
Ewan - i dont care if its special wood shipped from the rain foresst - wood supports for a big huge fast spinner like that - is not safe full stop mate.
There is a high chance the arena we used at FeatherWeights.org (Roaming Robots Feather Arena) would contain a spinner like that. But if that spinner was at full speed and took a direct hit by a horizontal disc, that blade and motor is going to go flying and may get stuck into the polycarb screens. Yes it may contain it, but will damage the polycarb screen due to your unsafe built robot.
Yes robots will get smashed and bits will fly, but not a whole spinner with its motor attached to it. If that was a heavy weight and at robot wars, it wouldnt be allowed. But as its a feather weight they would. But a feather weight like that in a feather weight arena - no no.
Mr Stu
Im concerned to hear that the RC Wars arena has been running robots like Tantrum in previous events without a roof in place - particularly concerned given James Cooper put a post on the forum defending the safety of his events.
James - perhaps you could shed some light on this - did the RC Wars arena have a roof on it last time. If it didnt - I believe you may have just found out why people have been worried about safety, and I also believe you may owe people an apology for your rant in the other thread about how safe your events are.
I understand that the FRA is sending a delegation along to have a look at your next event - lets hope they only have good things to report going forward !
Ed
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On the basis that theres no way the spinning mass would be able to penetrate the Roaming Robots Arena if (when!) it comes off, and on the assumption that the robot passed its tech checks I dont see why it wouldnt be allowed to run.
It would certainly be worth watching though Ewan, Im not sure it would hold together. Only one way to tell though !
Ed
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Doing Stus multi post thing !
Sorry Ewan, doesnt look like it will run at r/c wars...its not up to me to diside but unless you re-engineer that robot dont bother bringing it in, in the thought that you will be aloud to run...Im speaking mainly for myself hear but i have been to all the resant r/c wars events since and before they put up there new arena..I dont belive it has a roof at this moment in time either.
Also if we are very cautious of running tantrum on 1/16 th power I doubt you will be aloud to run on full wack.
regards
Dave moulds
Team Turbine