Another cold Sunday but Robots don't build themselves although when
it's this cold I wish they would.
Adam was visiting Sheffield this week so I set too on my own
where we had left off last week.
First job was to fabricate a pillar to support the polycarbonate sheet
we cut to size last week-I found a suitable square box section with a
handy T section on top and welded it in place, a small piece of angle iron was
also welded to the snakemaster bar and the polycarbonate was bolted on top.
A while back I had cut a hole either side of the wheel covers to give better
access to the wheel bearing bolts so I added some hinges to the cut away piece
and revited them into position-secured by a bolt.
I had come aware of how close we were to the weight limit for heavyweights
-last week we weighed the Robot and I thought there is between 5 or 8 kg to play
with.
I worked on the front section with this in mind, drilling large holes in the fabrication
metal to keep the weight down-this has advantages for inserting a captive bolt or
nut if needed.
I welded on these box sections with thier captive bolts as added battery protection,
there was some polycarbonate left over and this was just enough to cover either
side at the front of the Bot like cladding and this was also bolted in place.
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