360 - mini hypnodisc

[cliveb]

Alex says oops sorry about the axle Dave,and he will send you his pocket money.
But he is looking forward to fighting you again asap. and that disc would look even better with black and white on it.

[Mouldy]

Alex is the only person to damage 360 He blew up one of my speed controllers aswell with 44toon

[cliveb]

Could be worse, it could have been Stagefright
You would never have lived that down.

[Mouldy]

To compensate for the bigger lipo pack and heavier disc im having to save weight elsewere, So ive decided to do away with some aluminium parts and replace them with carbon fibre- The pics dont do it justice but it looks nice up close..

[RogueTwoRobots]

Bloody hell, seeing that new disc rim in relation to the robot really makes it look insane! Can't wait to see it used in anger at the next comp

The cf looks nice too

[Mouldy]

Well i got the disc on.. ish

Here it is




Only problem is that the disc is now so thick that ir rubs ontop of the wheels, only on the edges by about 0.5mm, so im going to turn the width of the front wheels down abit so they sit up inside the new rim, They were always 5mm wider then the rears anyhow and ill loose abit of weight by doing it. Picture of the wheels rubbing the disc below;



Also Kenny (ALK Engineering) has machined me up some new rear axles from P20 (same material as the disc) which should be abit stronger then the old titanium ones which snaped due to a little white and black pushy robot






Ian- ill get the disk sent off to you tomorow for nitride coating :wink:

[cliveb]

Guess we will have to try and hit just a little bit harder next time then Dave
Looking very nice cant wait to see it in the arena again.

[calumco]

looks amazing

have to say when i heard you were having a candy red spiral i wasnt sure how good it would look compared to hypno-disc but its ended up looking great

[RogueTwoRobots]

Dave, I have to say that that is looking unbelievably amazing now! Quite right that it got the best engineered award

Have you put the magnet back in? As I'm assuming the gyro forces will be event greater now with the heavier disc. Or are you just going to let it continue boogie-ing for the time being?

[Mouldy]

Not sure jamie, the magnet ive got is way OTT for the drive motors- it slows it down alot. I might try it with one half the size. But you are right with the exstra disk weight and speed it is probably going to be stupidly crazy to drive now... Although i kinda like it, it looks cool. Plus magnets weigh quite alot... I think ill just see how much the complete robot weighs when its back together and how crazy it is to drive then decide