Thread: Team Death - New Heavyweight

This weekend we had two days of activity.

Firstly on Saturday we went to a scrapyard for buses that'd had gone before its useful life to the company.
Unfortunately we didn't quite have the tools needed to detach the pneumatic rams from bus doors, a huge allen key type thing, however someone had been nice enough to leave one dangling by its air pipes so we ran off with that. We also took a sheet of the clear plastic used to protect driver from rowdy passengers, and after Colin whacked it with a hammer a few times to zero damage, discovered it was possibly polycarbonate, so ideal for use as some armor, possible for the bottom of the bot.
We managed to get the ram and the sheet of potentially polycarbonate for a tenner, so not bad at all, and if we need more there is a plentiful supply at the scrapyard. Unrelated to bots, but i'm planning on finding a friend and returning and running off with a flip-dot bus display so I can display random messages out of my window!


On Sunday, we got to the actual bot building phase again, which was mainly spent getting the bearings attached on a permanent basis instead of what we've done previously and its just been floating for sake of seeing how it looks, it's now got everything drilled out for nuts and bolts to secure the bearings where they need to be. We may at some point need to cut out some access holes, as some of them are currently hard to access and requires fitting hands in places they really don't fit!

A few pictures from last few days,
1) bit of extra metal needed on the left there to get the bearing to attach to the end pole, was welded on later, with nuts welded to the back of it to keep the bolts in place.
2) We achieved levelness with the overall chassis here, hopefully we'll be able to keep this levelness through the latter stages of progress.
and nonsense from the scrapyard,
3) Colin alighting from the Octobus, empty handed as it didn't have anything of use to us in it.
4) Myself in front of possibly the most unrequired sign in the history of signs.