Thread: Team Death - New Heavyweight

Another Sunday has passed, and more progress to report.
This weekend myself and Colin got together and worked on the bot.
We started out trying to get some life out of the ESC, which according to a friend of Colins was in functioning order. However we failed to get that going once again, and this time around didn't make the mistake of spending a lot of time on it as last time we wasted around 1hr15 on it.
So we moved on to the bot, and some more fabrication. The bot now has a polycarb base to it. The PC was cut in half, and double layered. Offering around 11-13mm minimum of protection, held together by some bolts. Colin got the big tools out after a while of me manually sawing through it, and we ended up breezing through the cut with a circular saw, and then giving it a go over with the buffer to get rid of the crusty edges and remove and defects that might cause it to weaken where it was cut.
The original plan was to use some half cylinders (think small fire extinguishers) to cover it up, but after doing the cutting, we thought it didn't look as good as it could be, when we remembered we still had the polycarb left from the bus graveyard several month ago that is yet to be used.
There is also the rear extra weapon Colin added last week, we'll probably turn this into a small flail to discourage people trying to sneak up behind the potential weakspot that is the rear. Also added by Colin since the last visit, is the back plate at the end of the tail. It'll hopefully help us be a little harder to flip, and right things quickly after they happen.
There has also been some minor additions to the side of the front neck, adding extra protection from side swipes and buckling to those regions.

The bot has also been weighed again, and we're up to the 100kg mark now, so not too much left to go.


Images!
1) No smoking in the Arena, even those e-cigarettes!
2) The new home for the polycarb, on the base of the bot.
3) The original plan for the base was to cut this roll up and use it, however we were unhappy with the untidy look it gave it.
4) The overhead view of it all, note the circular part on the back, this is where a flail will likely go on the end product
5) Current weight



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