Its not just for the money brigade you know.
A certain Mr Ewan recently did very well with a simple steel chassis. If you make the steel thick enough who needs CNC?

My point is, I agree with Sam, if you are going to build things that are dangerous, you must do it safely. My only worry if the nexr generation of Rexs stuff will not conform to FRA rules, and to comply may be prohibitivly expensive, so we loose dozens of potential members.

All it would take to alleviate my worries is an official FRA e-mail sent to Rex to just inform him of the development of the featherweight class safety requirements (he was after all partly, if not mostly responsible for its explosion!)

I know he doesnt allow spinners, but non spinners are legal. Just because its a lower capability flipper than the current lot doesnt mean they dont need the safety features and I think Rex would be delighted to incorporate out advances in safety into his machines. He is after all a leading figure in making robot combat safer, too safe some may say. Cost is also important to him so Im sure given enough time he can help us in return by coming up with lower cost solutions.

Rex doesnt allow spinners, and prefers cheap machines.
I think Vortex breaks just about every one of his principals doesnt it Ed?
and it moves.