Good idea, thanks Nat! I'll see if I can grab some when I get the drill bit. In the meantime, with an egregious amount of parts laying around, I've decided what I needed was another big project to use them with and with that, the revival of a name.

Kaizen
The 1.0 version of Kaizen was built in a bit of a rush for the first Middleweight Championships outside of Robot Wars for the 2018 Chatham event and realistically speaking, it barely qualified as being a Middleweight as it weighed 31.2kg. It was a 4WD machine, the only one I've ever built, powered by four Gimson 13.7:1 motors and was the first robot to feature a custom built gearbox of mine, a single stage 3:1 axe. Had it been built without the 4mm thick box steel and about half the fasteners removed, it'd probably qualify as a FW weight wise.

Yet despite all these flaws... and the fact the axe broke during the championship... it and was forever burning out motors (because when you are pumping 26.4v through 18v 775 motors, what did you expect?), it came 6th out of 8 in that championship that year. It didn't do very well at Cheltenham after that with it only competing in two matches where in both occasions, it refused to move smoothly and then was retired for Jibril.

Those of you who had been following my build diary will recall that originally, Kaizen was meant to have been a Heavyweight. I still have the original panels for that around (actually not too dissimilar to the current 2.0 version of Jibril in construction terms) but now knowing better, they were hilariously thin.

I do have big LiPo capacity batteries, a ESC, enough wiring, plugs and LEDs to do this with and soon a pair of motors so that is a start. I am still tossing it up in the air as to wherever to make Kaizen a MW again or a HW this time around though I want to try and keep the design fairly similar to the last version. I would like to be able to enter the Heavyweight championships but I have to realistically be able to shift this around on my own though this being the wonderful community that it is, that is rarely the case!

More details to follow...