Quote Originally Posted by Gabe01
Sewer Snakes weapon motor is subject to a 75:1 reduction. I reckon if you test it early stages and it can lift 20 kg's (fast) the it will be effective. Its got to be fast and furious, if its to behave like Sewer Snakes.
That's the thing. The motor is by no means huge. Just compared a Speed 900 to the motor we have, a 900 is about a cm longer, and it weighs about 200g more. The output shaft on our motor is 5mm, I think.

It would probably be possible to do, actually. If we had to. Quite a lot of $$$ though.

We did some tests as you saw in the videos, and it didn't seem to struggle at all. It lifted about 5-6kg on a 7inch bar without the further 4:1 reduction on a bad battery when we first got the drill, which would suggest it'll do around 20kgs.

We shall see! We haven't completely ruled out buying a drive motor for a bigger robot as a way to do it. This will lift a FW, I'm quite confident of that, it's when it lifts itself+another machine (which will happen quite a lot I think) that we may struggle.