With the Stevenage event in September now definitely featuring beetles, I have some work to do. Gonzales still works fine - I forget if I posted this on the forum:

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- but it was built in a week or so and tapped HDPE just doesn't sit well anymore. I might put in a smaller battery to save enough weight for a strip of steel on the wedge and for some inserts/more barrel nuts. Would be nice to make new wheels out of a single bit of nylon too.

I'm also going to try and build something new between now and then. I made the first part a few weeks ago; a 12mm dead shaft:


The disc I got earlier in this thread has now gone to a new home. I designed a disc for Harry's undercutter a month or two ago, but the price (thanks to Guilherme) was so good I wanted one too lol. It (they) arrived this morning.





It's 4mm hardox and 180mm diameter, which after feeling in real life I now think the weapon support materials I have won't be strong enough but it'll have to do, can't get anything else in time - only needs to last one event anyway.

The first pretendos, also giving a sense of scale:





Battery and motor are the smallest I can get away with (I think) so I can give the disc some proper support later down the line.

Got 3 machines to repair and upgrade and a 4th to actually build, aaaaaa.

Cheers.