Shrapnel - Feather Vert Spinner

[Ocracoke]

Great to see the robot in action, mighty impressive hits with it! Well done

Can the disc tooth be reshaped so it is not so much a tooth but a block (al a Nightmare from Battlebots)? Would that be more impact resistant I wonder?

[Revsmin]

Can the disc tooth be reshaped so it is not so much a tooth but a block (al a Nightmare from Battlebots)? Would that be more impact resistant I wonder?

It would but one of the reasons Shrapnel hits as hard as it does is because of the aggressive angle on the tooth, making it square would increase its lifetime but would lessen the impacts

I found a better angle on the Straddle fight:



It seems when the back shaft bent and the belt came off it got jammed and while I was demonstrating I was still mobile to the judges it seized and stalled the motor out :/
Definitely need to sort those shafts! Will try and get some better fitting belts too so I don't need to tension them so heavily

[Maxamuslead]

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could you use something like Ferobide and weld it to the tooth ?

https://www.spaldings.co.uk/replacem...m-thick-(pk10)

it is weld on Tungsten Carbide which is in agriculture to lengthen the life of items like subsoiler legs.