Reliant Robin or Renault 5? ......my mind often wanders when building Robots
but its fine as long as you can keep one eye on the task in hand and your thoughts
are relative.
When building a robot it's important for me to make it as easy as possible
to work on when it's built so that's the aim with this latest creation and that's when
recalled cars I worked on where easy maintainance was not considered in the design.
One of my first cars was a 1972 renault 5 and the only way to do the clutch was
to take the entire engine out.
Secondly I recall my uncle asking me to take a look at his Reliant Robin 3 wheeler
-the spark plug would shoot out of the cylinder head when he tried to start it,
his son had told him it needed helicoiling, I remember taking a look through the
letterbox size bonnet and thinking a keyhole surgeon is required here).


I contacted Charles regarding the speed controller by e mail and he
said it sounds like a classic reversed polarity spark.
Needless to say Niall and myself are not happy with that explanation.

Todays build diary.
Unfortunatley Adam was unavailable this weekend and Niall was still in
Scotland so I did a double shift on ny own.
With the electrics on the back burner for now I turned my attention to
fabrication.
Although our Robot should easily drive with its scoop running along an arena
floor I thought shock absorbing castors would make for a smoother drive so
on Saturday I continued to make and fit said castors to the top of the body.
On Sunday I needed to duplicate the process so it was a case of flipping
the robot over and I thought while I'm doing that I would weigh it 87 kg-
before todays add ons.
The underbody of the Robot provides access to all the inner workings and
needed covering, so that and the castors was todays task.
I decided that some angle iron that we had used in other areas was best
suited -Adam had complained about the noxious fumes it gives off when
worked but needs mustoops:.
I was going to make a rounded shape to match the existing body shape but
found a angled shape worked just as well.
Adam and myself had picked up some polycarbonate when we visited the bus
dismantlers early in the year and I cut out a piece to fit the frame I made and
bolted it on.
I made the castors for the underbody but didn't have time to fasten to the frame.
Heres todays pics
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