All good
(had to take the main weapon blades off at FWS 2003)
All good
(had to take the main weapon blades off at FWS 2003)
I know the feeling,
had to take loads off Tantrum to get into RW7, which was weird as it was 12.2 when I left wrexham.
with all the messing about, and taking teeth off, when I weighed it at home after, it was 11.6kg. Its that local gravity thing, Im sure.... well, either that or my scales are lying.... hey, that explains everything, cancel the bulk order of slimfast, its the scaless fault Im a tad portly
on a serious not, if feathers are too light, build a lightweight... end of my thoughts on the matter.
My opinion is that if you increase the weight limit then its just as much of a challange to build a robot in that weight limit. Even though heavyweights have 100kg to play with not the 12kgs of a feather its equally as hard to get a heavyweight underweight as it is to get a featherweight underweight.
You see if we increase the weight limit that means that people will want to use bigger bore rams to flip the heavier weight the same height so all that extra weight is gone and your still struggeling to fit it into the weight class.
Others will stick extra armour on. The spinners then stick on a heavier disk so they can get through the extra armour. Pushers up grade their motors so they can push everythign still. It just goes on and on and on and you are still struggling to get the robot under the weight limit.
12kg is a fine weight limit. Why change it? As they say if its not broken dont fix it!
Regards
Ian
Gravity does not exist. The earth sucks
Jonno,
there was little mumble from roboteers, about upping the feather weight limit because people were finding it hard.
Who could you possibly be talking about?
Ian
Cutlet540 in weight now!
i dont think upping the weight would be a good idea, a coupke of years ago, maybe. But we have had to spend alot of money and cut back on items to keep the feathers within the weight. It wouldnt be fair to change it now (although it means G2 would of been in weight!).
I think the main issue is that of damage (currently being discussed on Ti Grades thread.
I think people should see what feathers come in the next 12 months, and then thank God we didnt up the limit!
I agree 100% with that comment James...Looking at pictures of feathers a year ago...youd be lucky to see some 6mm rubbish grade ali used and if you had that it would be classed at OTT, Now we are seing all these billet bots that are soon to come to roaming robots ( I think they are?) and im sure they will impress alot of people....but an exstra 100grams would suit me fine
regards
Dave moulds
Team Turbine
We toyed with the idea of just making a robot out of a billet of Aluminium early last year - but rejected it for a number of reasons.
Monocoques arent what theyre cracked up to be !
Weve got a hybrid billet bot if thats what you want to call them for 2004 which takes the idea a stage further. Billets are so last year
Ed
http://www.stormrobot.comhttp://www.stormrobot.com
Sorry Mr Fashion guru.
If nobody made one, how can it be last year?
Im sure youll change your tune once you see them, just because you dismissed them doesnt mean its not worth doing. Not sure what reasons you had for turning them down, but they are all theyve cracked up to be so far.
Just an observation, having seen one in action already.
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