FRA UK Featherweight Championship 2014 hosted by RoboChallenge

[RogueTwoRobots]

Pretty good example of TS3 in action. Completely managed to miss this at the event last year:

[overkill]

Thanks guys!

[overkill]

Here's a fun factoid when making predictions - unlike almost every other drum and beater bot, Mr Mangle has a positive rake on the weapon tips:



Its modelled on a circular saw tooth and is absolutely perfect for digging in to soft armour and throwing it out of the arena. Funnily enough, about half the bots I was drawn against have plastic or aluminium armour .

[maddox10]

Guilherme, BonX was the first Featherweight using 3.2mm Hardox armor.


It's the essence of a incredibly tough and fast bunker.

And it's Dutch.

[Eventorizon]

Here's a fun factoid when making predictions - unlike almost every other drum and beater bot, Mr Mangle has a positive rake on the weapon tips:



Its modelled on a circular saw tooth and is absolutely perfect for digging in to soft armour and throwing it out of the arena. Funnily enough, about half the bots I was drawn against have plastic or aluminium armour .

I spotted that in your testing, interesting idea. Personally, I think they will blunt to rapidly and when you do have to sharpen them there will not be enough material left to make a new effective leading edge. But I guess we will see at the champs.

What is the beater made from? Conker 3's is Hardox 650.

[geeza]

DB10 has positive rake as well, and the teeth are replaceable.

[overkill]

Mr Mangle's beater is S7 tool steel, hardened to around RC55. You are quite right that it will go blunt like any other steel weapon, but looking at the draw I got, only Glalactus, Tiny Toon and TS3 are likely to do any damage to it, so there will be plenty of sharp spots left on Saturday. This is the same steel I use on Scissorhand's teeth; given that the length of the cutting wedge on Scissorhands is 44mm and lasts a full competition, I'm optimistic that Mr Mange's 220mm of cutting edge will last for 4 days.

On the other hand, Mr Mangle is likely to end up in the pit for each and every match, so sharpness might not matter so much

[overkill]

Hi Ed, Your site link isn't working for me - are there any pictures of DB10 on the forum?

[geeza]

Yeah I know, need to get that removed from my signature. Don't have the time to maintain a site anymore. Its all in bits at the moment having some last minute upgrades and lightening. Only decent pic I have is:

DB10.jpg

Courtesy of Ray Tait.

[overkill]

That's a difficult and expensive design to pull off - congrats! I'm guessing the disk is aluminium with a steel tooth?