Largest spinning disc on a lightweight!

[andrewj]

Depends if FBS is counted as a disc

I have two words for this Alex Miller w****r but unfortunately admin would revoke my posting rights

[jim]

Ah, thats what this forum has been missing - a good troll! Er, well, its still missing one. Come on Alex, that sort of message might have worked in 1996 but if you want to wind people up today youll have to be a bit more subtle about it.

Tsk - wasted opportunity. If we call Alex names were hardly going to get any information out of him, are we? If the public think were dull, Id like to see how we can improve matters. (Not that I care in general, but if we ever want to get a TV series again...) Most people will tell us something polite that they think wed like to hear; it appears that Alex doesnt suffer from this failing.

To clarify: sorry, I meant the largest/heaviest spinner (fbs on no) on a feather. Presumably Vortexs is fast rather than particularly huge (and the same is true of Scorpion Junior). I saw Dizzy Tilly (FBS) at Debenham, but the shell looked quite thin.

Martijn - sorry to have directed any of my previous posting at you; it was supposed to be at Alex, I just missed when scanning the poster names!

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Fluppet

For a start, do we call you Alex Miller or Andy Coates?

Sorry if Im a bit cynical, but Ive seen this type of post on every forum, newsgroup and online game since modems had acoustic couplers. If Alex does continue this discussion, I will retract my earlier comments.

e-mail him and find out... be careful of those horrible viruses that might attach themselves though. I hate it when that accidentally happens.

I would say Black guard had the biggers spinner. it is 800mm long. After that Tantrums 3kg 500mm half bar half disc is right up there (is there bigger?) and when it was a full 5.5kg 500mm disc it must have held the record for a while at least.

I think it is possible to make bigger in a featherweight, but is there any need? it makes them more unweildly and there are better ways to get a bigger smack.

so for me, Black Guard is the biggest Ive seen, though Ewan did test a 1m one I never saw it in action.

Jim: Dont worry, me too (back to the Acorn/Amiga advocacy newsgroups, at least). Still, no harm in asking. Better the devil you know and all that. Besides, if hes trying to flame us, I dont think rising to it will help. Ive always maintained that a sustained policy of politely entering into discussion with people is the most frustrating response I can make.

As an aside: I have a (very out of date) page with a few inventions on my web site, and amongst the various forms of feedback I get, I had a chat with a kid from Australia. He made a number of facetious invention suggestions, some of which already existed (in some shape or form - e.g. square bubbles and left-handed screwdrivers), and some of which could be interpreted as damn good (in the not sticking it on my web site in case I can patent this sense) ideas. You never know what you can gain from anyone, and the thing about getting gold from the mouth of an idiot is that hell rarely notice hes giving away a filling. (Note to self: dont over-stretch metaphors so much...)

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Fluppet

I had a 1m one (featherweight)... but the spin-up was pathetic (about 12secs). And driving around tryig to spin up without touching any bot or arena wall wouldve been a pain in most event arenas...

[karnage_cjb]

- Does anyone else think robots are gay? -

Hmm... could be another reason for ramming other robots into the arena wall, apart from to damage them. :-P


- Maybe you should all move out of your mums basements and look for girlfriends. Oh, by the way, shave the beards off first eh? -

I have a basement?! *looks for it*
Look for girlfriends... *turns around* Finished
I had a beard?!
Tut tut... he didnt do his research on me did he?