Post house move:

After moving Cumbria to live with my boyfriend work recommenced. The slot and tap approach to the weapon housing made the test assembly easier after fitting most of the old mechanism into the new robot. This time getting everything correct. With the bolts, nuts, etc arriving I could begin to bolt the robot together. Here you can see the Aluminium slots that help support the dead shaft attachment to the bulkheads.

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I started making the side panel supports that also have slots to allow the drive belts to pass through.
With the threaded inserts attaching the dead shafts and lids was now fully possible.

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The motors are ready to be mounted in place once the m5 nyloc nuts arrive. And with that you are up to date with the build the next step is make the side panels and refine their supports to get them to sitting right on the robot.

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