T4

James, heres some basic specs on T4 to answer your question from the other day.

Drives: Bosch @24volt
Speedo: RDFR47e
Batteries: Hawker 13ah
Weapon: Hydraulic Crusher with 4.25 tonnes on the tip

Sam

Works very well in combat, getting easily through 3.2mm hardox with the end snapped off!
Sam, we still have your Albreit solenoid here - do you want us to send it you? Or i could drop it round when you move to Derby?

I was pleased with how the weapon performed at the champs - having said that Im in the process of unrating a couple of parts which got bent :wink:

Grant, cheers Id forgotten about the solenoid, dont go to any trouble posting it, Im bound to see you at an event before I need it.

Cool Sam, you moving to Derby?

Bex, yeah will be moving there in a couple of weeks. Is it true that ppl from Notts dont think much of Derby?

Nah its not true, i got family in Derby, its true that they dont think much of the Derby football team but thats all :P

Sam, best of luck with the new job and best of luck with the improvements to T4

Leicester people arnt too fond of Derby County FC aswel :)

When I visited Derby it turned out to be bigger than I expected, some nice areas as well.

Cheers Gary, hope your new plans with Swarm and Hornet go well and best of luck at university. BTW do you plan to go to any of the winter tour shows?

Sam, I am not sure about the winter tour. I have to see how things go at university. Although I am thinking about getting a job just for bot parts. Once a roboteer, always a roboteer! :)

If you get bored of Derby you can always visit Nottingham ;)

Gary, thats dedication :), Make the most of all the equipment in the engineering dept as well. I got extensive use of their manual machines and some cnc work done and some materials for T4 while at Lboro.

Bex, Yeah will do, groups of us from uni used to go there for the best nights out when we were bored of loughborough.

not all unis allow it though sam.

the university i went to were not insured to do any work in their workshops unless it was on the lesson plans and individually risk assessed.

not letting engineering students engineer is completely stupid of course, as in my opinion workshops should be like libraries, open access to students on that course to improve their knowledge on the subject. but hey, i dont run a university so what would i know?

Is that your next challenge James? ... Run a university

no, be a dad :)
to be a good one is the biggest challenge there is apparently

Yea but its a fantastic challenege im sure. Has baby arrived yet?

Hee hee James, I totally agree with your views on uni workshops. Please come and talk some sense into the Glasgow Uni engineering department :)

(Sorry to continue with the hijacking of your thread Sam - you can have it back now lol :))

(Message edited by K_C_R on September 05, 2006)

Its a shame to hear what some unis are like.

I got the same responce when I spoke to the technicians but they are all told that only uni work is to be carried out in the workshops. However if you speak to the head of engineering and get their authorisation the techs become very helpful, and soon make you a risk assessment.

Of course it all depends on the head of eng. With Garys previous record I think he would have a very good chance. Perhaps if you offer good photos of the robot for posters, it is something else to show perspective students.
(They were delighted when I offered T4 for a couple of open days last year).

But like you say everywhere is different, I may have been lucky, but its always worth asking.

the baby has not arrived yet, but ill let you know when she does :)

Unfortunatly i went to NEWI in north wales, and the head of department there is a complete (insert rude body part here) in that, not only did he not want students doing anything in the workshops, hed then hire things in and claim we made them. prime example when the queen came to visit and we proudly displayed all the racing cars built by students at the uni. Only one was actually built at the uni and that was by staff. students were banned from working on it. the rest of the cars (6 of them) were hired in from local racing teams and resprayed in uni colours.

Im sure Gary will have more luck, as its unlikely there are 2 such complete waste of space unis in the UK. :)

I can name another...but dont get me started on that!

Well i am hoping that strathclyde uni will be a bit more accomodating. I have already spoke to some students that go there and apparently it is the same story however I am going to see about sweet talking the right people.

If all else fails I can see about calling in some contacts at Rolls-Royce in East Kilbride and see if I can get some parts machined there. :)

One thing I have learnt very early on in life, it is not what you know but who you know that counts!

O and best of luck with the new baby James.

HAHA im so lucky that my dad works at Rolls Royce :) Rolls royce once built there own robot for robot wars

indeed. I believe Jonno owns that one now.

I dont know if they do or not I believe it only got half finished and they left it, I think someone at Rolls royce still has it.

A bunch of guys from RR once built one but the company didnt want their name associated with the program so they were called a group of aerospace engineers

They couldnt have there name associated with it because they were using RR components when they shouldnt!

correction....
its not what you know, or who you know, its WHAT you know about WHO you know!
:)

ripper, and rip, both have rolls royce to thank :):):)

Indeed they do dont they jonno :P

Hey Sam-

Im bringing your spektrum DX6 and Albright contactor to Portsmouth for you. See you there.