Time for another update!

I've ordered the Aluminium Chassis a week ago and it was due to be delivered on Thursday, unfortunately there was a minor delay and I managed to pick it up last night (Friday). I spent a good chunk of that evening drilling hole for bolts and tapping the threads in the bulkheads. The end result looks rather cool if I say so myself!



Some of the TIG welding has gone in a bit wonky so I'm planning to face some of the bulkheads off a little to get them back to that mythical 90 degrees.

I also ordered the 4mm Hardox front, side and rear armour a week ago and I'm expecting that to be finished around Wednesday next week and I'm hoping I'll actually have it in my hands by Friday. The 5mm polycarbonate top and bottom panels have been delivered and I'm planning to get them CNC drilled & routed so they should drop into place nice and clean.

I've been having some problems laying out the flipper arm and I think I may have to get a custom arm fabricated. This is going to considerably add to the cost and time to completion but hopefully will look awesome.

I had set myself rough deadline of 10th April at the start of March, I knew it would be very ambitious target but it did prompt me into ordering the chassis and armour. I'm expecting to be at least a week late at this point but I will have a robot!