Newbie/oldbie

[Shakey]

I'm saying that the events with arenas that featherweight spinners are allowed to fight in only occur once (maybe twice if we're lucky) a year. Non spinner featherweights can fight at the heavyweight events which happen once or twice a month.

[john_frizell]

Spinners generally get 1 maybe 2 events a year. Non spinners can fight once or twice a month,

Sorry I don't understand or im reading it wrong/

What this means is that there are only 1 or 2 events a year that take featherweight spinners but one or two a month that take non spinners.

[J.A.G]

Spinners generally get 1 maybe 2 events a year. Non spinners can fight once or twice a month,

Sorry I don't understand or im reading it wrong/

What this means is that there are only 1 or 2 events a year that take featherweight spinners but one or two a month that take non spinners.

Ok I understand now thank you

[J.A.G]

I will upload my drawing tomorrow please don`t laugh

[J.A.G]

Well here is my robot design

scan0001.pdf

[maddox10]

I hope you have cordless anglegrinders.

And what grade of stainless?

[J.A.G]

I hope you have cordless anglegrinders.

And what grade of stainless?

Its going to be 3mm stainless. Im just going to used the inners of the anglegrinder

[maddox10]

What do you mean with "inners"? The gearboxes? Or the stator/rotor?

Oh BTW, lightweights. I don't know there is any in the UK or mainland.

[Shakey]

What angle grinders are you using? Are they corded or cordless?

And really again, DON'T START WITH A SPINNER. Plus if you're going full combat 3mm stainless is woefully inadequate.

[Garfie489]

Being honest, it doesnt look like youve researched the fundamentals or looked through other build diaries. If you dont know something, you need to look it up or - if rather specific - at least ask.

For example, being asked what grade of stainless - 3mm is not the answer. If you get the wrong grade of steel you could easily end up with something with the wrong properties for what you need. You can have two different sheets of 3mm stainless, and one will break in combat and one may survive if they are different grades. Regardless, 3mm of stainless steels i have seen is too thin for full combat. It will likely get destroyed very quickly unless its entered into non-spinner events. It may just pass as an internal structure, but not if the entire robot is made out of it.

The question of Cordless Angle grinder is also important because most angle grinders arnt cordless - if you use its components its likely to not work due to the differences between AC and DC current. It could even be possible the motors are not capable of bi-directional drive.

Its also worth mentioning that as a spinner, it can only enter full combat events. This then also presents the problem that the spinner is likely to be so ineffective you might aswell remove it. Meaning the only reason to have it, is to endanger yourself. Removing the spinner for this reason means you can enter all open invitation events.

Also personally your plans dont have a sense of Scale. Non moving claws means nothing is going to fit inside them, and the scale of the weapon seems very small compared to that of the robot. Its also overly basic, and missing most of the essentials needed to operate a robot - even listing those components would be handy to give advice. The best thing to do is use the component dimensions and CAD software like Sketchup (which is free). Or more simplistically drawing it in sharpie on a bit of cardboard to get the correct scale.