Diablo mk1 upgrades

Bought this from Dave / Tom

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Will be upgrading it over a few weeks, might just change the speedos for ones with breaking built in (brushless) to stop it over steering, as its un driveable at the moment due to crazy amounts of over steer.... got some whyachi motors that would fit in if i can be bothered...

currently weighs 13.2kg at the moment with gas... 1kg of that is in NIMH's... Needs some lipo... then maybe some hardox on the front.

Good old duckbill !! can't wait to see it upgraded

nice robot that davindra

Base and bulkheads cut and cleaned;
http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/v...s/4d4e69d4.jpg

Whyachi motors and gearboxes ready to get bolted in, there in the centre of balance of the robot;

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Lipo box and hacked brushless escs;
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nice balancing skills...........nice robot..............nice carpet :)

Done a bit today, got the whyachi motors mounted, just need to get some bits of keyway and wire it up, then its good for a test drive...

Also started on beefing up the armour;

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with all the hardox on the front, new motors, lipos, brushless escs etc its coming in 300g under weight with gas... should be enough to sort out fixings for the new armour.

Also, anyone know the equivilent weight of 3mm aluminium in HDPE?

Im guessing around half... so if i ditched the 3mm ali armour i could go for some 6mm hdpe... need something LH isnt going to just make look crap within 2 seconds.

Also... might ditch the cut out in the front plate... i thought it'd look cool, but it kinda makes the robot look like count duckula....

i personaly quite like the scoop. it's looking very nice, like the hardox parts

Closer to 1:2.75 for aluminium:HDPE thickness ratio for the same mass

I thought the front plate was an M for Mouldy

or MONG LOL, looking good mate cant wait for test drive vids you seen RPM,s beetle weight test vids

Ali is 2.7g/cm and HDPE is 0.95g/cm

I like the Ali plate, looks old school robot wars!

Thanks Ewan/PJ; looks like ill be able to put 8mm HDPE ontop- i do prefer the check plate, but like i said, it will last all of a couple of seconds in a fight... might keep it down the sides.

Hopefully LH wont do a lot to 8mm HDPE... its got a fair bit of air under it anyhow so it should be ok.

Dave; yeah it looks well sweet, looks like my first beetle but better lol;

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That be actually looks pretty cool dave, what size disc did it have? Btw will 360 ever return to combat?

thats a pretty sweet bw dave same as 180's disc?? what happened to it

It looks pretty beasty, shame you lost interest.

L,H, can't do much to 8mm UHMLPE or RG1000 it had a go at doing damage to Seraph when they were both in the pit and did well....................................nothing! :mrgreen:

It had same motors Kenny has for drive in 180 but right at the back... So it barely drove...sold the motors to Kenny for 180, then chucked it in the bin lol.

Yeah disc was from the original 180.

360 will be back at some point, but probably just for demo...

build a mini duckbill with a servo flipper

cool- cheers craig, nice to know that it should be ok... just need to order some now :)

Tom- you and dave still getting a cnc?

Very happy with whyachi drives and brushless escs;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVeeTwLCdUQ

Jeez that's got some serious speed. :o

Looking good Davablo. The wheel re-positioning seems to help a lot.

What is the response of the Botbitz controllers like, in relation to transmitter stick movement? Saw another video you posted of testing them and they seemed nice and sharp. Just curious how well that transfers into the robot; it's harder to tell on the little 6A controllers I've got in the beetle.

Yeah there pretty slick mate, I'm going to order a batch of them soon, 2 for my drum, 2 for 360 and spares...there super slow speed control isnt the best... But how often do you drive with less then 1/8th throttle lol

Very impressed!

One I'll me and Dan will have a robot that drives..... erm... at all....

looking great dave now wheres 360! Will be great to get it running again.

Diablo doing a sit down on my v12 coffee table;

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... has HDPE lids now, and some hardox bolted on the front... just needs the bit on the arm doing now and some welding etc... 50g over weight with gas and front hardox piece added at the moment, but i havent even tried to take weight out of anything yet :)

Glad to see you kept some of the Ali checker plate!

Awesome coffee table by the way! Where on earth did you get your hands on a V12 block?

snazzy

eBay :) its a jaguar V12, same as on top gear... Might be getting some Lamborghini engines to make into tables to sell on soon.. But that's another project.

Neat idea!

I saw one that also held wine bottle in the cylinders.

Finnished;

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I believe the correct adjective in this context is badass.

It looks badass.

Looks awesome! What size ram have you got in there?

The bit of hardox on the front of the flipper arm looks like the makings of a tuxedo jacket. Totally worth drawing on a bow-tie and a smiley face and calling it Jeeves.
The added black bits give it a nice evil edge 8)

Duckbill looks like it's off to a dinner party lol
Looks well sweet mate got new duckbills bulkheads cut at kennys tonight

Jonny: think its about 50x80

Jamie I thought the same thing... James bond of the robot world now, names Platypus....duck billed platypus.

Dave: cool, get pics online! It going to be in weight? Or you going for a mega buffer like flows lol?

i will put pics on later today it should be in weight ? buffers just an average size one about 80mm dia

Dressed to Kill....

How did he pay for his suit?, he put it on his bill .... thank you i'm here all night...