How Could I Improve...

[joey_picus]

Yes, its top secret. Its not for the tournament Im doing after...wait, there is no tournament. I am never doing another tournament, an certainly wont be doing a classic heavyweight one after I finish the Chevron...damn.

Right, listen. You never heard any of that, and if you read it you have temporary amnesia. You shall never speak of this again. Understand?

As for those robots, I cant see anything majorly wrong with them, so its very possible theyre in weight.

[kodster]

*copies the words down for Joey to hear later*

Some classics coming up. Time for Fangorodrim to come out of retirement...

[kodster]

But until then, I shall bring another golden oldie out of retirement...the silver medallist of PTT3 Pinball.

Junkyard Mawler (previously Junkyard Maw)

Shape: Steep box wedge with sloping rear (and rear skirt) and pointed sides. Has spines on the sides as well.

Colour: Dark brown.

Speed: 15mph average; 22mph top speed

Weight: 80kg

Armour: 9mm Grade 5 titanium with a 9mm polycarbonate underbelly. Rear skirt is 6mm titanium.

Drive: 2 LEM130s @ 36v

Power: 4 NiCad Battlepacks @ 36v

Motivation: 4 inner 7mm titanium hubs with urethane rubber for grip

Ground Clearance: 0mm at the front, 5mm at the sides, and 0mm at the rear (10mm without skirt)

Dimensions in CM (LxWxH): 90 x 65 x 30

Weaponry: A rear-hinged flipper powered by a 2.5kg CO2 tank and 80mm ram. Its got about 30 flips in the canister and is enough to toss a bot of equal size about 4 feet into the air. Its powerful but not overkill. On top of the flipper are two stationary Hardox claws shaped like curved teeth so that opponents dont run straight over the wedge.

Srimech: Flipper

Strengths: Fast, powerful, tough. A good all-rounder basically.

Notes: Redesign of a VERY old 100kg vapourbot. CAD coming soon.

(Message edited by kodster on June 08, 200

[joey_picus]

It has wheels 7mm in diameter? :P

And I hate to say it, but Id have to be convinced that 18mm Ti and lexan wont put it overweight...

EDIT: Misread stats, but still, 9mm Ti is borderline...

(Message edited by joeychevron on June 08, 200

[kodster]

No silly, thats what the wheels are made of, not the diameter. The diameter is 150mm. :P

And fine. The titanium is now 7mm. :P

[paulc]

Very funny Liam By the way, Ive done all I can with Nitro-Gene 5.0, and I THINK its in weight, but if someone cuold do a weight check, its just I dont know about things like weight, I just focus on how tough everything is, so if someone could do a weight check to help me, that would help...obviously

Right, bearing in mind Im not 100% sure on this:

Drive train (4 LEMs + batteries, chains wheels, etc.): 35 kg ish
Chassis (you said above there was a seperate chassis, so this is ignoring the whole monocoque confusion): 15kg at least
Armour: I calculated this somewhat properly (assuming a 2x1m 5mm Hardox sheet for the whole body, which is about right taking into account the sides and angles) and it came out as 78.5kg by itself. (see http://www.matweb.com/tools/weightcalculator.aspxhttp://www.matweb.com/tools/weightcalculator.aspx )
Weaponry: Id guess at least 25kg for the entire weapon setup, including rams, tanks, valves, piping, stored gas, etc.
Miscellaneous: 10kg

Total: 163.5kgs

Im pretty sure Jim Struts weighed less than that :P

[joey_picus]

The above would indicate that there is a severe problem with most of everyones vapours though, so I wouldnt take it as gospel.

[leorcc]

Where are NG5.0s stats?