This sunday, we worked on strengthening the front, so the scoop and weapon there will be able to take a huge hit and not crumple back on itself. We used another piece of metal over that to improve the look, and also later will be used to mount castors on to help smooth running. The metal (the white strips in images below) came from a bath lift, lowering into the water. Unfortunately whatever that metal is, it completely shredded 2 cutting blades on the angle grinder, we're not sure what the metal is, but it doesn't like being cut - that's for sure.

Over the week, Colin had done the other side of the bots motor mount and attached the chain for it, so that alone made the bot look a lot better and closer to completion.

At the end of the day, we weighed what we have so far, we stashed the loose stuff in the scoop for the weigh in, and it was a little heavier than anticipated, at around 75kg. We can save some of that weight if we switched to LiPo batteries instead of SLA batteries, although we didn't include the rams for the weapon in that weigh in, so that's a little extra weight we forgot to include there. The weight there includes a 2kg plank of wood we used to help spread the weight evenly on the scales, so the weight there is minus 2kg.

Todays images, the altered shape of the bot now its been strengthened at the front, the scales & Colin holding everything up with loose stuff in the scoop for the weigh in
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