Quote Originally Posted by Gabe01
I reckon that with the amount of effort and time you are spending on this one, its worth considering a spend on the lipo's you will be able to save loads of weight and space. I know its more cash, but it seems a shame to waste the opportunity. I hope you are using a lot of bolts on this one . I think it will do well, I've been watching videos of Sewer Snake, the weapon is effective and versatile. if only he would cover his wheels up
Yeah, as much as we'd love to justify spending lots of money on this, we really can't. We're not exactly building it cheaply, but it's in the spirit of things (for us anyway) to have to use some sideways thinking. Better ESCs would actually be more desirable than going LiPo I think, but ah well. Maybe if it does well we'll treat it and ourselves with more up-to-date components. We could probably save a kilo by going LiPo alone...

We have saved a lot of weight over the previous machine though, for example, it's now at driving stage and it's a good 3kgs lighter than Tormenta was before it could drive around. The weight will be in the lifter business. It's there we'll have an issue if there is going to be one.

We too hope it'll do well. Sewer Snake has had huge success, I think largely down to ruggedness. This thing will hopefully work in the same way. The nature of the weapon means it has to be tough.

And yes, all nuts and bolts... the barrel nuts work a charm!