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Yeah, since beetleweights are still very new, there are only a few around. The Robo Challenge events mainly focus on featherweight robots, and since the UK championships are just over a week away, most people attending would probably be giving their attention to the FW class and may not have a beetleweight robot, let alone a fully-working one.

The Robo Challenge guys did offer beetleweights the chance to get some arena time, but it's not always possible to run a competition with so few robots. I also know of a couple of roboteers who were planning on attending with beetleweights but had to pull out due to various reasons. It's unfortunate, especially since Pugster got his beetleweight running in time, but it can take a while for a new weight class to build up a strong presence at events.

I think the only way to avoid something like this happening again is to ask for a sign-up list before the event to see who's competing, and to ask the organisers nearer the time if there are still plans to run a specific robot type. But other than that, it's difficult to tell how much competition there will be.

We had a few that we're due to be there but had to pull out for whatever reason, it wasn't really predictable it was going to happen, but deegan got to drive 2 Fw's at the event and still got to use it and had time to do stuff to it, so I would have said he had a worthwhile trip.

if he dislikes car journeys as much of me then I would be very unhappy

Pugsters mum here again.....just to let you know pugster really enjoyed using the featherweights,so those chaps who did that thanks.....it's all he had to talk about for 3 hours to his dad on way home!! :lol:

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Originally Posted by Pugster2002

Pugsters mum here again.....just to let you know pugster really enjoyed using the featherweights,so those chaps who did that thanks.....it's all he had to talk about for 3 hours to his dad on way home!! :lol:

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Which feathers did you get to drive Pugster??

I drove one that's hammer was broke and was very fast and I drove a axe pusher robot

The one with the non working hammer was AWOL , and he also drove Hell's Angel.

AWOL?

AWOL belongs to a guy named Paul, one of RC's crewmen, it did have a little spinner on the front but it got wrecked at a different event and they rebuilt it with a hammer.

your beetleweight is good pugster

Here is a video of my beetle weight :mrgreen:
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri= ... rFIMVDKNQs

For those of us not on mobile devices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrFIMVDKNQs

Not many people doing the dual weapon thing anymore but that looks really good.

If I used these instead of wheels would it count as a walker :mrgreen: http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/...9/47f922d0.jpg

No it counts as a shuffle bot. I think you only get 120% of the weight limit

i think you would need feet to make it a shuffler, feet that don't spin, and say resambly parallel to the ground, rather than a wheel with grooves, i wouldn't suggest using those as wheels, as you would have little traction and it would be slow.

New question how many non spinner beetle weights are there please reply

Currently, none. There aren't any beetle events really, and when they do come around i suspect the idea is to make them full combat.

Fractal has a lifter

fractal is not an event.

Haha, loving the sounds it makes, cling, clang.

I think spinner BW are going to be very popular because you can get a sufficient brushless system for very little money.

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Originally Posted by harry hills

fractal is not an event.

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Neither it is, but to be fair, Deegan asked about non-spinner beetleweights rather than non-spinner events.

I think there is a Little Flipper BW clone (can't remember who owns it) and the one I'm slowly making is a servo-powered lifter, although I'm sure a spinner will be on the cards soon :)

ah right, sorry, too early in the moring and i was confusing it with his event thread

Alex (bodge job) owns the little flipper clone. It turned out that we couldnt get the pneumatics to work so we built a drum spinner instead.

When I get round to getting a lathe I will hopefully make a new lp ram so we could get it working

Yeh I made the body for it, and because of problems with pneumatics (there's a big step inbetween the little ant parts and the feather ones with little parts inbetween) so I was looking at an alternative system since, eg electric, servo or solonoid, or a spring system, but all systems seem to be weighty, gonna have to lighten it all. Will have another go at getting it going, sometime, might do a low 50 psi system so I can make my own parts with out testing. Idk, still working it all out. And fixing the drum robot once I get a pully and a few other parts.

*realises his blunder, he too thought it said beetleweight event*

I think theres a few kicking about. The original idea for mine was a biohazard style 4bar lifter (forget about the flamethrower thing, that was only a fleeting idea in the brain of a 12 year old) i think i still have the chassis kicking around somewhere, although i seem to remember it became fodder for Tom Hazards spinner Antweight... thing. If i get round to doing this, probably a spinner of some kind, probably a FBS or something, im pretty sure i have the C.A.D for a FBS called Tartan Tornado or something :uhoh: