Team Troubles Robot Projects

[xtreme]

Got them teeth sorted yet Calum? And did that other parcel get to you with the HDPE in?

[calumco]

yh it came-----thanks

and no i've messed it up theres only so much you can do in a shed lol so im sending it to kenny to sort for me, i can spin it at about 200rpm- this is just me guessing from watching it btw lol and as i up the speed it starts vibrating badly, i've spent most of today trying to sort it out by tapeing defferent weights to the drum in certain place to get an idea of how bad it is but i've not succeeded so rather than me going crazy im going to send it to kenny, seeing as he has made several drums before he obviously knows what hes doing unlike me lol

although at the slow speed it was spinning at it still slices into HDPE nicley thou :twisted:

[xtreme]

Guess it shouldnt be a problem for you getting through the 5mm HDPE on savage evo. might be 8mm in places tho.
Id better get to bed. I got to get somthing done with evo tomorrow.

[calumco]

its that disk that im afraid of lol

''4.04 am'' is there much point:P

[muchalucha]

Im scared of that thing, in a good way

[calumco]

well i have done it.............-very nearly finished one of the worst looking robots i've ever made, with its massive clown wheels and square chassis, i think it looks bloody horrible and im looking forward to making Trouble Starter 2 already with massive changes in mind - overall im not blameing the wheels- which grant supplied with the drum end caps and a few other parts as its just my bad design, which i feel would have looked one hell of a lot better if i had the origional wheel protection on - but unfortunatly the weight wouldn't allow for it.
the one good thing about the robot should be that its gonna have a half decent weapon at least and aswell as that be invertible other than that im really not happy with it.

it makes me cringe to think about it, but ill put a few pics up on here, all i need to do now is drill and tap alot of mounting holes for the top armour but seeing as im out of the right sized bolts i need, i decided to call it a day.

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thats 35mms worth of HDPE (15mm chassis and a 20mm piece bolted ontop of that) at the back of the robot to hopefully defend against horizontals and to also offer a bit of rear wheel protection

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thats a view from the front,- thats where the drum will go inbetween the ali bulkheads- which is actually on its way to kenny because its off ballance etc so he's gonna sort it out for me

heres another pic of a rambot im throwing together for one of team mates to have a mess about with at some point during the weekend which after ill hopefully sell to one of them, i just stood the side panels up near the robot to see what it was looking like.- its really just something that can get chucked about in whiteboards.

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this event will be the first and the last time ill use this spinner, fingers crossed the drums gonna be re-usable for the next robot ill make which im going to make sure doesn't look the same:P

[xtreme]

It looks ok dude.

[xtreme]

So anything happening? Ill probs get an update of my stuff on my page in the next couple of days. Hows the rambot coming along?

[calumco]

feeling a bit annoyed, i was wanting to try out my spinner for a drive about- put the link in and smoke fumes out of the reciever and i think from somewhere else- for absoultly no logical reason what so ever as i checked everything several times and it was all ok.

now ive got to try and find out now what still works and what doesn't grrrr

and the rambot is comming along slowly but surley as im trying to mainly get the drag racer and this spinner sorted out.

im off to have a sulk at the thought of the price im gonna have to pay to replace things

[calumco]

drive speed controllers still ok and so is the reciever even though smoke was comming out of it, but i think i've blown the speed controller that i was gonna control the drum motor with won't no properly untill i've properly tested it- as its not connected to the drum motor yet etc