Build Diary - Plastic Fantastic - FW

[Al_]

Continuing with the build diary, the next parts made were the left side, its spacer and the left hand rear motor mounts, plus all their respective mirrored parts for the right hand side. I fitted a couple of motors with their wheels and assembled what I had of the bot so far:

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Only 2 motors are shown in the picture as back when that was taken there seemed to be a national shortage of the 12V Argos Value drills, and I couldn’t get hold of any more. Thankfully this situation seems to have sorted itself out and I have some more and the drills are back in stock. At this stage the chassis was starting to get some rigidity to it which was encouraging. There is a fairly large gap between the wheels and the chassis to allow for a bit of chassis deflection but also for wider tires should I need in future.

Next piece to be made was the back, in the same style as the rest and here it is fitted, along with the other 2 motors and wheels. At this stage I now had something I could roll around the workbench.

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The final part to complete the chassis was the front wedge and it was also the longest part to make, a combination of being the thickest piece and having an angle to cut on it (unlike all the previous parts which where all straight sided cuts). Here it is at the start of the cut, at the end and the finished piece.


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[dotDominic]

Looking great - super chunky and sturdy! Should be very difficult to KO.