So its been a few months since the last update from Cheltenham and time to get it out and do some refurbishing in time for Portsmouth. I need to be fighting ready for the FW rumble as my 7 yr old Nephew is going to watch - he came last year on the promise of being able to buy tickets on the door, but when they arrived, all tickets sold out. So this year he will be watching, acompanied with my younger brother

So, about a month ago i took the bot out for a drive around the road when, 3 minutes into the drive, one wheel locked up and wouldnt drive or rotate at all.
Now, i have actually got on to take the gearbox apart and found that one of the metal teeth had sheared off and become locked in place disabling the gearbox.
Whilst there is still some tooth remaining, it means it is very unreliable and a weak point, therefore im going to have to swap it and replace the gearbox with anew.

This is tonights job.

Then i need to reweigh the bot and see if it is still within allowed weight limits. Im hoping after this event, i will then be confident enough to have a go at 1:1 battle.

I yet to be attached by a spinning disk bot so still unsure how well it will fair with them. My attempt to get hit by Get Shrekt failed as he had drive issues at Cheltenham and i couldn't get round him to be hit by him.

Note, if you are reading this thinking i have a spinner and will attack him, note my Nephew is seeing show 3, s i hope to have the robot still working by then! Maybe go for it at show 4.