Its a bit of a bummer that your parts haven't arrived yet, but its good to know there will be a big dump on your doorstep next Tuesday. With a big spurt of activity, you should be able to squeeze your bot out just in time!
Jobbies.
I certainly hope there's more than a scat-tered few parts by next week, should be ok if the postman gets his rear in gear. But yeah, if you can ass-emble this thing in time, it should kick some major butt.
Hanging out the hardox to dry
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*insert ass joke here*
Everything will be with me monday/tuesday, will be prepping stuff throughout the week and hoping to assemble it in one go next weekend with team mate Dave, who is currently testing our ESC's out, which may or may not result in fire.
bulkheads and side frames arrived today! It's starting to have some substance to it at last! Surface/edge finish on these is great:
Looking good! Now you just have to do without sleep for the next week
What is the taper like on those parts? Waterjet cutting is the process you've used given the blasted looking edges. I've found some of my parts to be a tad oversized or angled which has made assembly a pain at times.
Is normal with waterjet and laser in thicker workpieces. The beam or jet spreads a bit.
Some machines can compensate that by angling the cutting head. But those are rare, and it's still more art and gut feeling to get the angle correct.
Angle on these is perfect right angle across most parts. The small holes have little burs that need filing but other than that they are perfect!
Yep, Conker 3 and Binky's H13 weapons were cut out on a machine with Angle Compensation from the billet before being milled and lathed. Had to send the 30kg billet to Bristol while we live an hour north of Leeds :-P
Interesting... which company did the cut for you?Originally Posted by Giles
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