Base Plate Materials

**Eventorizon** · 1st May 2012, 23:51

We reckoned we would not have been the first to try it, Its been around in one form or another since the mid 60's. But even though its not a new material, but I am pretty sure we will be the first to test it in a featherweight bot... and if it goes well probably not the last... I know bigger brother used it to back their armour with after their fight with hypnodisc, its been in cars and space equipment for years! And no wonder, its brilliant stuff if used correctly

**maddox10** · 2nd May 2012, 00:58

I worked with simular materials in my professional carrier (20years+ as technichian).
I wonder why I never used those in my robots.

**Mouldy** · 2nd May 2012, 07:28

Think cassius 2 was the first to use it, its entire chassis was made out of the stuff... bonded and rivited together.

There used to be build pictures of it on rex's old website.

http://www.teamstorm.com/storm/events/c ... sius2L.jpg

**PJ-27** · 2nd May 2012, 08:36

Looks like it was just the flipper arm (always wondered what that was!) Isn't the rest Polycarb? Dunno about the base plate.

Also looks like Cassius 3 actually ran:

It has battle scars. I guess we now know where the Invade guys got their inspiration for Explosion....
Does anyone know if it was built with the 4 bosch400 set up?

Years ago I went to a robot event (in Norwich, dunno who) and Cassisus was meant to be there, but never ran.

**Mouldy** · 2nd May 2012, 09:54

Nope, was the baseplate and bulkheads in cassius 2, cassius 3 was all 10mm ali plate, and looked like a pretty ghetto version of chaos 2 :wink:

**typhoon_driver** · 2nd May 2012, 10:21

but I am pretty sure we will be the first to test it in a featherweight bot

Lol the featherweight typhoon used it too. Although it was cack because the team spent their time working on the larger machines.

**Danjr1** · 9th July 2012, 18:31

Rather than create a new thread, thought id add to this one,

designing an axe bot and trying to work out a good base material. Would 5mm Ali 6082 T6 be suitable?

cheers

Dan

**Eventorizon** · 10th July 2012, 21:53

Murphys Law has a 5mm Alu base and it got very twisted by LS4 but that did not have support all the way around. If you bolted a box section frame to the edge (or something similar) then it should work a treat.