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KIS is always the way to go in these cases.
thats what i was thinking jonno. put a loop on the back of one and a hook on the end of a servo at the back of the other. nice, simple, reliable & and most of all dosnt look lame
need some hdpe, what sort of thickness should i go for on sides when against spinners? i was going for about 10-12mm?
10mm will do the job nicely for most spinners.
Any idea how much a 6mm thich 500mm x 500mm peice of hdpe weighs?Will it be strong enough?
HDPE has a density of rough 0.97 g/cm^3 work it out.
Will 6mm be strong enough?
I use 6mm HDPE and polycarb in my 450 gram robots and 10mm HDPE in 6kg bots.. And I think 10mm isn´t even enough when fighting robots like Prolodja. For featherweight I would use minimum of 10mm and cover it with thin steel or aluminium.
Just my 2 eurocents.
So far 10mm has held out fine in the featherweight class. be prepared though, some nasty spinners will get through or at least leave nasty gashes.
I disagree with Juha about putting metal in front of it, we did that on our raptor and that was the stuff that took the full force of Prolodja, where the HDPE alone would have just absorbed the blow and flexed the energy out.
It is also the way you use it that matters. Bolt HDPE straight to a steel frame with no possibility of flexing, and it will not be as effective as when you do suspend it in such a way that it can give way.
I have got a sheet of 5mm polycarb from technobots.If i put a piece of 4mm hdpe underneath it do you think that would hold out against the most powerful of featherweight axes and spinners?
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