In a attempt to get further ahead with the robot build I have done a four hour
working session today and dealt mainly with the scoop weapon detailing.
I needed some pretty beefy steel bar to be the pivot point for the alien like
inner scoop and had walked past the potential candidate many times on the
way to the workshop in the form of a old steering box from a nissan pick up
truck, I had it in mind that it would form part of the build at some point and
it's time had come.
I set to it with Big Bertha (9 inch monster angle grinder) and after some major
slicing I managed to optain a 35mm bar about 9 inch long and two bearing like
collars which of course fitted the bar perfectly.

During a previous build session with Adam we had made some brackets for the
skatebord wheels to run in, but because that idea had been mothballed they
came in handy as support brackets for the collars I had just made and even
the bolt holes were in the correct place.
One major misshap was my trousers catching fire from the sparks off Bertha
and burning a hole in them-talk abour warm down under....building robots is
dangerous.....yer I know.
Quite pleased with todays progress and the fact that the robot contains
two gas bottles, a lawnmower grass blower, a vehicle clamp, wheelbarrow
wheels and a pick up truck steering box bits adds to its quirkyness.
Picture 1- steering box
picture 2 -parts out of box
picture 3-burnt trousers
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