L.W.S Robotics

[tweedermeister]

The old thread for my build diary's got locked so from now on i'll be posting all progress here.
bots so far: minor tom: FW,partly built but won't be ready for maidstone for monetary reasons.
masochist:AW, working rear hinged flipper but is being rebuilt soon.
Valefor:AW, front hinged flipper hopefully being finished later today, I was going to weld the plastic for it but it wasn't strong enough so hot glue in some places and screws in others will have to do for now, also it has 3mm ABS armour and 10mm HDPE sides

[archie2000]

i built an front hinged flipper ant
wasn't overly successful

[razerdave]

Front hinged flippers can be very successful in ants (see Jigsaw).

Why 10mm sides?

[tweedermeister]

I had the weight and for protection against horizontal spinners, and will spinners be allowed at the roaming robots Maidstone event ?

[archie2000]

so was hazard 1 a front hinged flipper.
the hinge was on the front of the bot?

[tweedermeister]

It's a front hinged flipper if the flipper goes forward rather than backwards e.g firestorm

[Ellis]

And Sewer Snake style is best of both worlds!

[Liftoff]

@tweedermeister ''I was going to weld the plastic for it but it wasn't strong enough so hot glue in some places and screws in others will have to do for now, also it has 3mm ABS armour and 10mm HDPE sides''

You could try to weld the plastic this way:

http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/foru...=5294&start=45

It worked for me, could work for you :wink:

[tweedermeister]

I don't think that would work to well for why I'm using it for, it's only 3mm thick and hot glue does the same job anyway, and if I could make an effective sewer snake ant I would.

[razerdave]

With Antweight HDPE, I use a spare soldering iron tip to weld plastic together, using 1mm HDPE strips as welding rod after its been tacked in place (melted together).

I will try and get my polycarb together for Maidstone so you can run a spinner in my arena.