UK Champs 2006 Featherweight Competition

[ewan]

Well we are all bound to size up the competition in one way or another in the upcoming days so heres a topic where we can focus the debate leading up to this years competition.


The draw:

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-2>Wednesday 23rd August

Heat A
Stiff Breeze, Ironside, Conundrum mk2, Captain Scarlet, Tronic1, Ploughbot

Heat B
Surprise, FeatherHard, Hawk 2, Flipper, Small Torque, Spin-Awe

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Thursday 24th August

Heat C
Alpha MX, Hannibalito, Mini Mighty mouse, Debiel, Driller Killer, Overdrive

Heat D
Secret Weapon, GIANTO, Beauty, Batterbot, Miss Tilly, Bonx

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Friday 25th August

Heat E
Rip, Hornet, Small Cheese, Vertigo, Byte, Dragon Strike

Heat F
Scorpion Evil, Woodpecker, KR3, Little Spinner, Push-n-Shove, Dizzy Tilly

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Please use this topic to ask about others machines that you may not have heard of before, terrify the opposition by showing off your feathers weaponary or to generally talk about the competition!

Many Thanks, Ewan

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(Message edited by ewan on August 04, 2006)

[ewan]

Id like to start by asking the builders of Hornet, Small Cheese and Byte - if they see this topic - to post a little about their machines so that I can check out my opposition!

Cheers

[geeza]

Hornet is Gary Cairns feather, dunno much about it yet. I would like to know about Beauty, i know the others in my heat. By the way guys in Heat D things are not looking good for Secret weapon, the weapon isnt working, motor is broken, although the drum is nicely painted!

[dragonmaster_1]

Been testing DragonStrikes weapon today. Tested it on Dragon 2. Now need to straighten the 4mm Hardox bent it 45 degrees and snapped the welds on the corners. 10mm Ali straight through it. 12mm Polypro just finished with the heat gun filling the holes in. Yours is PolyPro Ewan.

lol, I did say terrify the opposition... but :sad:

Dont worry, my 2kg concuction of wood, ali and polypro should hopefully be up to the job

Whats the height of the disk btw?

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(Message edited by ewan on August 04, 2006)

[dragonmaster_1]

Depends on the opposition from 1cm to 3cm it points slightly downwards so it does not ride up wedges too easly.

Heat F looks intresting Stu.

lol, yeah, have fun. I hope your SP2 is more of an improvement than Micro$ofts :wink:

Okiedoke, well the extra armour is only at a slight angle at the rear - but with ti on the very shallow front Id be really very surprised if you could get much purchase on the surface unless you managed to catch an edge. All very theoretical :wink:

[Mouldy]

Sounds very, very impressive. Secret wepons broke but its still gonna win, Woooooo!

Ploughbot and KR3-SP2 i can also see going far

[john_frizell]

For heat B

Small Torque - Geoff Smith

Chassis... 6082 T6 Ali.
Armour... Nylon 6/Ti/Hardox laminate
Drive... 2 X 300W Thin-gap motors / 26:1 gearboxes
Power... 3700mah Ni-Mh
Control... Vantec RDFR23


Surprize - John Frizell

Chassis Plywood
Armour: mahogony, Ali, macralon and a bit of steel
Drive: 2 x 24 volt drills
Power: Nicads
Control: Electronize

So what do Feather hard, Hawk, Flipper and Spin Awe have to say about themselves?