Team Troubles Robot Projects

[RogueTwoRobots]

Is The Berzerker Nicks?

Yeav, meant to say tvat its assuming ve's able to get it finisved in time.

I say we all wait until we're merry and tipsy at tve campsite on Saturday nigvt and tven sort out bets. Tve presence of alcovol could lead to some interesting wagers

I've also got plans to ensure tvat no matter wvo wins tve pvysical battles between vorizontal and vertical, VFTW will be tve dominant species overall.
Intrigued?
Excellent

[xtreme]

your typing like you have already had alcohol.

[calumco]

lol tom i'd agree with you there i tvink mines gonna look gay to be vonist- witv basically a square cvassis with massive wveels on eacv side:P and witv a drum on the front probabily will look strange lol but its not about the looks its about the vorizontal disk ripping off device on the front.

and jamie im intrigued, altvougv its not clear wvat you mean lol are you sure your not merry and tipsy now?:P

[RogueTwoRobots]

No, sadly I'm perfectly sober rigvt now

I'll fill you in Calum next time you're on MSN, its an activity tvat us vertical lads can participate in to underline tve supreme awesomeness of tve verticals

[xtreme]

It wont look gay, looks good so far. Im just trying to convince you not to use the anti horizontal stuff. makes my life easier then

[calumco]

u mean connect 4 jamie? lots of disk shaped pieces of plastic being placed vertically into the game frame thing:P tom you be tryin to put them in vorizontally which would mean they wont fit so the verts would win

i've decided to go back to using H its only when its grouped with FTW or orizontal that it becomes wrong to use:P

[xtreme]

Just hijacking your build diary for a sec calum. Been doing some work on Savage Evo today, I replaced a drive motor and grub screws holding the drive gears onto the motor shafts today. Also i rebuilt the gearbox for the spinning disk. The chassis on Evo is bent quite alot and some of the welds have broke, so im going to brace it up some time this week and then grind out some of the welds and weld it myself. Might rebuild the whole robot if i have time. Ill build it exactly the same as it is now, so you probs wont even be able to tell its been rebuilt.

Hows yours coming along Calum?

[calumco]

good to hear you've sorted some of the problems out, i say its better than just sticking it back in the arena like said u were going to do the other day lol


and its the same still lol,
im gonna do some more tomorrow though sort out the battery holder thingy, cut some hdpe extra armour panels and im going to cut a new piece of pipe for the drum as the one i've got isn't cut straight. i should have my endcaps, teeth and wheels to me by wednesday ish with a bit of luck - if i do, ill get the drum sorted and mounted the next day and then order the right sized belt in time for a test at the weekend- then if anything goes massivly wrong- like the robot destroys its self or something ill have a couple of weeks to sort it out still

[RogueTwoRobots]

If you're in the process of rebuilding/repairing Savage Evo Tom, you should just rotate the plane of the disc setup by 90 degrees, and you'll have yourself an awesome spinner that you can proudly class as vertical

[xtreme]

Caulm I had a few hours to kill today, so i thought ill have a play with evo, within 30 secs the motor that was crushed started sparking, the back plate on the motor popped right of and it was shorting out. When i took the side pannels off to change the motor i saw broken welds, so whole robot has to come appart to get the frame out. I rebuilt the gearbox just because i had nothing else to do at the time.
Jamie why would i wanna do that? Everyone knows an ok-ish horizontal can beat the best vert. FACT!
We better start typing on the events discussion page about the tag champs shouldnt we? were messing up your build diary thread