Dutch Beetleweight

[Niels - Team K.a.L.M.]

Turns out I won't be building a pneumatic flipper beetleweight. After spending 4 hrs bending 6mm hdpe in to the desired shape using a soldering iron with a large rod inserted to heat lengths evenly to bend it I mounted the pneumatics in it. Wired everything up and testfired it using a roll of ducttape.

The ducttape flew over 7 feet and I was pleased with that. Even cocky it would appear...

Tested it again using my featherweight to see how much power was in it and offcourse I didn't have a camera present.
In 2 glorious seconds I tossed the featherweight aside, snapped the flipperarm and the chassis in 3 different spots.

Apparently, heating and bending makes the hdpe too brittle to stand up against the force of the pneumatics and makes we worry about it's capabilities to withstand your spinners.

Would have made a great video....

So back to the drawing board and get decided on an axe, lifter or spinner...