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Originally Posted by mr_turbulence

Just like i did by bringing brushless into spinner technology.... Bringing in a complete new generation of spinners, making the competition much tougher...

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Just to stop your head getting too big there.............that driving comment was aimed at you :rofl: :rofl:

you try driving it... dont think ud do half as well...

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Originally Posted by mr_turbulence

you try driving it... dont think ud do half as well...

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HAHA!! Luke agrees with you on that one. For all the stuff we have I've never really driven anything bigger than an antweight. Apparently all I'm good for is pushing buttons when I'm told :proud:

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Originally Posted by craig_colliass

I remember it different.
I thought we were discussing the amount of gas that flippers had and if this was limited we would have lp flippers that could flip lots of times and hp flippers that could get you OOTA but had limited flips.
but we could have discussed Thor too, I can't remember much now. But in the end you won the argument anyway :uhoh: :uhoh: :uhoh:

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I seem to recall we discussed flippers, whether beer was better than lager, thor and axes and a load of other stuff. As for winning an argument I recall being sent to bed by the barman before we finished so that'd be classified as a draw :rofl:

Enter a robot into uk champs made out of ply, windscreen wiper drive motors with wooden wheels with a bit of bike tyre tread screwed to them with servos and micro switches as the controller, bolt a sla in there and probbably hammer a nail through the front as a deadly ramming spike. Thats about as far as you can go with technology without being complained at. Than again the ramming spike might be pushing it abit.

you all have great points. I am not complaining, and i agree if you think you can do something new within the rules then you should, but it does make it hard for newbies like me to compete with brushless magnetized robots with something i made in a few evenings in the garage

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Originally Posted by xtreme

Enter a robot into uk champs made out of ply, windscreen wiper drive motors with wooden wheels with a bit of bike tyre tread screwed to them with servos and micro switches as the controller, bolt a sla in there and probbably hammer a nail through the front as a deadly ramming spike. Thats about as far as you can go with technology without being complained at. Than again the ramming spike might be pushing it abit.

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Gary's already complained about machines that sacrifice weaponry for armour. :lol:

Well put, Lord Bob.

I understand it makes it harder for new guys but the spobbys got to evolve We cant just stick to the same old same level robots, well not everyone can. If every robot stayed the same it would be very boring and nobody would go to the live events, Its already pretty much dead and in need of a huge push.

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Originally Posted by Lord Bob

you all have great points. I am not complaining, and i agree if you think you can do something new within the rules then you should, but it does make it hard for newbies like me to compete with brushless magnetized robots with something i made in a few evenings in the garage

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You do have the option of competing (much more regularly) with Robots Live and Roaming Robots without coming up against spinners or machines with magnets etc. In fact I'd always recommend people starting out do that because if your robot wont take major damage driving over it or battleaxe giving it a good few whacks then you need to know before it gets hit by something which hit you with a concentrated impact like a spinner.

Oh and to be honest I do think that the argument applies at the top end as much as at the bottom end (make your own mind up which is the bottom end as tiny toon is uk champ?) that we have a set of rules and people build within them. I for one think an active weapon rule would really kill new entries to the sport. If the spinner guys have a problem with hardox boxes then they should build something which can beat them.............full circle then to the argument about why we should allow magnets, it means we can allow hardox boxes and give spinners a way of attempting to deal with them without realistically reducing the effectiveness of a flipper....

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something i made in a few evenings in the garage

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Same as what I do. I don't have access to any CNC technology (atm). Boner hasn't used a lathe or mill to make anything. You don't need the fancy tech for a good machine! If you need access to machining for complex items there are many guys that will do it for you here.

You only get brushless spinners etc at robochallenge featherweight events. So if you want to build a featherweight for a an easier level then go along to the roaming robots events. I'm sure Jonno still runs fights for them.