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I am looking to build a featherweight crusher a bit like this one http://www.roamingrobots.co.uk/picturegalleries/UKChamps06/pic005.phphttp://www.roamingrobots.co.uk/pictu...s06/pic005.php
dose anyone know any thing about this robot or any other pictures?
That one is a Heavy.
I know it is a heavyweight robot, that is only the design a am looking to make my featherweight.
i would like some pictures to see how it is put togeather.
What is that robot
TX108
i think its craig danbys?
Yeah it is, In the DVD he said it was one of the oldest robots in existance lol!
yeah it is. We faced it back in 2002 or 2001 at technogames in the football
It was the robot that teamed upwith pink pants (Pussycat) right?
yup was build back in 2001 and fought in series 5-7 qualifiers plus an extreme 1 newcomer fight against hypnodisc (which we won...........because they broke down after 30secs and never got aired)
what do u want to know about it?
I never realised you had another heavy Craig, I just wondered. Wheres it now, and how come it never qualified? When did Tanto come along then?
Same time, TX-108 was made by me and my dad Tanto was made by me in college, had a heavy before that and a super heavy before that and a feather before that, ive been competing since series 2 of robot wars when I was 13,
TX-108 never fully qualifed because it was never interesting enough for TV, series 5 qualifiers we fought S3 best fight Ive been involved in.
Tanto never got to RW til series 7 2003 when it got eteks before that it was wheelchair motors on 36v
TX-108 was sold for scrap all bar the arm which sits above my desk along with tantos titanium forks
TX-108s arm was hyrdaulic right? cant believe they thought it was uninteresting I think its really cool looking. What robots did you compete with before TX-108? Sorry to bug you but Im intrigued
We could do with a summary of Craigs roboteering possibly...particularly me, Ive always been curious about the otherweights in series 2 for reasons best known to myself, there were a good deal of good looking superheavies seen for about five seconds on TV and never again that Im curious about. :P
series 2 we ran a feather called Deadline, we were one of eight robots there were again about another 8 lightweights and middleweights all fought in melees
super heavies had a little comp 6 x 4 and 3 way melees and the final got shown on tv the otherweights had a and so and so won we never even got a split second of air time it was just Adam Clarks feather armadillo and devistator? got shown
Series 3 we ran a super heavy called Toxin but due to an inciedent during filming the super heavies were cancelled
Series 4 we ran a heavy called Vindicare which went to the Robot Wars live show we qualifed late in the day and got told the show was full
Series 5 we fought S3 with TX-108 but lost on a judges descion
Series 6 TX-108 fought Reptrion and broke down hense lost
Series 7 TX-108 qualifed against Beast and mighty mouse but lost i think the areial came off as we drove out and had no range, Tanto ran in series 7 qualifiers an literally ran on the last fight of qualifying which it won bbut again got told they were full but were put in as an unused reserve
outside of Robot Wars we ran in technogames and made the semi finals of the sprint with Photophattiephobia and failed in the football and sumo in the following year, I had Anto in Extreme 1 and a newcomer fight with hypnodisc that was never aired because nothing really happened, Extreme 2 we ran a feather called Gianto which jonno killed and killalot squashed, series 7 we had Gianto 2 in the feathers
Ive had some sucess in the antweight division too
Im aware of the antweight success Craig, that and your continuing efforts to build a one horsepower Anto :P
Thanks for that little summary, quite interesting to...well, nerds, lets not mince our words :proud: like me, lol
tx108 must have been pretty good to just lose on a judges decision to s3
I love hearing about qualifying rounds and un-aired battles, since we never got the chance to see them. Thanks for that Craig, interesting :) What was Vindicare like?
our fight against S3 was great they had some control problems so we took advantage kept scooping them up and running it into the walls we had them for most of the match but every time we backed up they would turn and wacked us with the disc, we were pretty even on damage by the end but the judges gave it to S3, didnt mind losing to be honest just loved being involved in the fight
Vindicare was an invertable lifter powered by Mig welder bottles and wheelchair motors it was the last big robot we built, it was 1.4m long 1m wide made entirely of steel
What SHW incident? (Im intreaged now!)
I remember Gianto, i went to see RW be filmed, and we saw Gianto in a fight.
My mum said Bly-me, these bots just keep on getting smaller! when Gianto came out.
was a hw incident, robot came of a trolley and hit someone, was before most robots had failsafes safety procedures had to be changed and safety issues were strictly adheired to from there on in caused massive delays in filming which led to the cancelling superheavies lights and feathers
Did anyone attend any of the qualifiers for Robot Wars? I went to a couple as an audience member. Some of the fights I saw:
Oblivion 2 Vs. Anthrax
Spiny Norma the Flame-Proof Wedgehog Vs. Sawpoint
Pirate Vs. Predator
Terminal Ferocity 2000 Vs. Raizer Blade
The Dark Knight Vs. Leveller 2 (I think)
Warhog fighting someone, possible Leveller 2 again