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yeh, i want to make it full presure, but its really expensive, and for all the pnumatics it weighs over a kilo, so the only way i could make it work is by giveing the robot legs so it gets the weight allowence... so its a bit to complicated for my first beetle... lol
With a meaty enough spring you could easily chuck 1.3kg around, surely? Problem is resetting it... how did Diotor do theirs way back in the RW days?
Could copy the way the Battle Ratz do it, I have some photos on my photo bucket the way they do it, it uses a combination of a hook attached to the flipper arm and a motor to catch it.
Diotor used a hydrualic ram to pull it back down.
I think a Beetle with a flipper will be lamb to the slaughter.....
Can I have a link to the photo bucket page??? it would be nice to have a look at the mecinism in the battle Ratz... and I made a test flipper about half a years ago, using elstic bands and and a servo powered winch, but it took about 20 seconds to re set the flipper, so its a little to slow....
Bruiser is now ready for the worthing event, but sadly we couldnt have a steel wedge on the back as well, but bruiser would be about 2kg over weight... lol
http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h46 ... F-orig.jpg
http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h46 ... F-orig.jpg
New wedge looks good!
how much does it weight?
last time i was around at alex's it weighed 13.546 kg, but with the new wedge it will weight about 14.5kg unless he's taken the lead acid battery out.