Whos doing what to what before the next event......

[robotwars]

Having had a bad event at worthing even though Ripper won.... the big ball valve didnt fire once !!! Grrr it has already had a complete strip down and some upgrades this week.

It got me thinking... as i have been asked to write and article for a magazine... this would be a good topic.

What do roboteers do between shows with their robots, do they touch them, or constantly work on them !!

Ripper is always being changed, it gets used once or twice a week in school playgrounds, normally demo'ing against wheelie bins, so it must be the most used robot around !!

Since Worthing the Upgrades include...

Extra 1.1kg gas bottle fitted giving a total of 3.3kg now, so should get more big flips.
More flow, better opening of the big valve... hasnt worked properly since the O2
Shifted some weight forwards
Tried to strighten the top pannels as they are like banana's thanks to thor !!


The new gas bottle will arrive tomorrow so a quick test tomorrow night and its ready for a demo im doing on Saturday !


So what went wrong for people in Portsmouth and what the plan for the future....

Eruption.... first event... how did it go?
Why did toon raider keep breaking down?
Why did Thor go home early broken?
Why did the Iron Awes not work so well?
Why did maelstrom catch fire twice?


If you can give me as much info a possible i can use it for the article???

John

[terry]

upgrades or fixes for me before the next event include replacing wheels or moving wheel axel so ive got more
rear groung clearance, as im getting stuck too much, fixing 2 burkerts again as they are not firing properely
these are such a pain as they are always problems I must swap to a ball valve system but that will take too
much time which I dont have and also am stuck how to do it aswell. my front hardox scoop needs to be replaced
with maybe a titanium plate so I can get under other robots again but im having trouble getting grade 5 ti
my rollers need tweaking aswell or lifting a bit so i get more ground clearance. also have got to weld back on my wheely bar that thor smashed off so a little bit to do hope i get most of it done in time.
at normal work ive got to rewire a house, and wire a new house aswell :shock:

[craig_colliass]

Designing new feet for pilgrim! Might put some lights on too
Oh and Cherub won a fight

[swanaldo]

Worthing..........Thor ran well up until it broke a battle switch on the weapon so could only fire one way. An easy fix with a new battle switch and ready for portsmouth

Chuck.....the flipper snapped its welds from the flipper bracket to the ram and needed ally welding so couldnt be done on site.....hence we went home with no robots to fight.

Envy is in my garage waiting for a refit and drive upgrades which will be next year as i am currently building a new robot called Full Tilt. Hope to get that done for portsmouth but will be a push. I believe it will be worth the wait tho producing a very entertaining robot to please crowds.

[geeza]

Apocalypse hasn't worked well all year so I have given up with it. A new design is under construction hope to be ready for the team champs but its going to be tough since Ive hardly done anything so far. Ditching FP for LP, going 4WD. Think a cross of Merlin, Ripper, Big Nipper and Barbaric Response - If you can!

[mightymouse]

meggamouse might finally be running after the damage from the 02, new lathe assembled ready for siting.
Bet Mr Jonno will have me modding the battlratz and antz and ripper before I get to touch mine.
Might even have Mini mighty mouse running, if it hasn't rusted up......

Ironside, the boring box the spinners cannot break.........might be running.

[razerdave]

Satanix only had 1 fight at worthing because it wasn't charged or cool enough for its competition fight after the tanja fight. I'll be going to germany for a full combat competition when the portsmouth events on. I only have one real repair to do, and thats find and fix the cause of this overheating problem!

Ants all worked fine though Baby Hell, Stewie, Bulletproof all ran flawlessly (Although St Jimmy is starting to suffer interferance, dan 40MHz!)

[cliveb]

NOTHING!!!!!

Seeing as I was sacked from the Team as weapon operator at Worthing, to be replaced by Will Thomas or Mike Lambert, and probably Trevor Wright at Portsmouth, Let them do the repairs

Mr Angry

[Danjr1]

practicing the black art that is Lipo battery charging! lol

[Scorpionbuilder]

Scorpion, after a fantastic event for her at Worthing, has been put in the workshop and left to the shed fairies

By Portsmouth they should have completely rewired it, reconfigured all battery packs to a new shape, installed extra wheels for drive stability and rejigged her front points so they are sprung loaded to the floor.

While they're busy I will advising Sean with the bodywork of Fortis (his new machine).

So not alot to do really