Thread: Team Death - New Heavyweight

This sunday, we started work on a different approach to the weapon. Although the type of weapon hasn't really changed, just the approach to achieving it has done so, to a method a little more tried and tested.

Colin had already acquired and split a gas bottle in two, and the first job for the day was to split it into 4 pieces, cutting it in half again and taking an inch and a half out of it so it'd fit snug inside the other scoop instead of resting above it. Part of this required some wooden slats cut out to place below the existing scoop and the new one that'd be inside it, to get the distance we want between them and know how much to cut off each side. Towards the end of the day, we tested the work so far by drilling holes into some spare metal around the workshop, using them as pivot points and attaching them to the new scoop within the other, and testing the closing mechanism of the new one for the new weapon design, and it seems to work a charm! Robots coming a little too close will hopefully be in for a surprise!

The day was disrupted with a minor calamity halfway through as I lost grip on the angle grinder whilst trying to undo a welded tack, causing the grinder to bounce around the scoop, whoops!

Todays images, Colin and some welding, hole drilling and the wooden cuts we used to measure the excess that needed cutting off all sides of the new half-gas bottle for a smooth fit inside the curret scoop.