Thread: Team Death - New Heavyweight

Another update!
This sunday was a bit of a mixed bag, after running into a few problems. Progress was still made, everyone runs into problems at some point!.

Firstly we came across a slight problem when we started trying to attach the bearings to the wheel poles so we could align everything correctly inside the bot. The company unfortunately sent Colin 3 of the same size, and one bearing much larger than the others. Undeterred we scavenged a larger circumference pole and cut it down and sliced it at one side so we could stretch it out and put it over the initial pole making it fit snug into the much larger bearing.
After finishing that, we set about fitting it all and aligning it into the chassis nice and aligned, this didn't take too much time, although we used everything in sight to jam it all in and hold it together. After doing this, we were ready to attach the bearings to the chassis, and after buying an angle attachment for the drill we started confident we'd get it going.
Unfortunately, this proved to be a lot more difficult than anticipated, struggling to fit the drill and bits into the chassis and found it hard to apply enough pressure to the angle attachment to make the drill actually do anything other than scratch the metal. After a bit of brainstorming, Colin decided it'd probably be quicker to ditch this idea and he ended up using the arc welder to melt holes. We then set about using these as a starter for the rest of the drilling, however we were still at a loss with the drill. We ended up having to use an angle grinder and cut out the previously welded bars, and then drill holes into them whilst they were wedged into a workbench, allowing us to apply the needed pressure to get the holes drilled.

Colin will try to re-assemble the bot before next Sunday, so we can get back to it from where we left off.

images, in order;
- The good start, finding the position for wheels and making sure it's all even, using pretty much anything in the workshop to jam and hold everything in the place we like.
- Colin demonstrating the angle add on for the drill.
- Colin drilling into the beams for the bearings, after cutting them out of the bot.
- The now sad looking chassis after the middle support beams were removed, having previously been welded in. Despitely essentially only being tacked in, it still put up a large fight to get it all off again!