Team Gas Diary's

[Gaseraki]

Spartans first Version

Decided not to do a build diary on this as work was a little quiet and I was allowed to do occasional maintenance work from home and so didn't have time to slack and update a build diary.
Been planning spartan for a while and it started as a clone of Trojan. I was at the final stages of design where I had a change of heart and thought I could try something new.

Went to the gym to clear my head and in between sets I sketches this up. I liked the idea and developed its design in a practical sense
Eventually I ended up with spartans shape and spent a long time designing the construction. Which would be similar to Trojans. But less construction fastenings as I hate taking Trojan apart.


Going to skim over how I built it but basically I got back my old combo lathe/mill. So made my own wheels and milled most of the aluminium.

The drive motors are Ampflow E30’s and are amazing motors. They are about half the weight of Trojans MYB 300 watt scooter motors and about the same stats.
I had to reduce the motor shaft size as it was 13mm which is a hairy operation



Weapon drill is a cheap standard argos one as I have about 4 in a box, but will probably upgrade for the UK champs. The lifting prongs are also interchangeable.

The chassis is 8mm bulkheads with 3mm steel in places and 10mm nylon.

It was coming in very light at about 11kg so I started using more steel which increased its weight significantly to over 14kg. Though I am not worried as there is tons of weight reduction that can be done.

My next months plan is
see what goes wrong at Whitwick and fix it
Get it in weight
Build an anti spinner weapon
Possibly upgrade the weapon system.

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