re-starting the hobby

[typhoon_driver]

Lol small world :P

[suvv]

yer tell me about it

[suvv]

ok had a massive change of direction after scouting through the shed at what interesting bits i got and having looked atthem youtube vids i feel enclined to borrow a few ideas from storm 2 mabey make a 4 wheel drive set up thats similar with a tasty little lifter and an armourd front end so i can take out them spinners head on

[john_frizell]

There are currently very few spinners because there are only a couple of arenas that can take them.

[suvv]

im guessing that is due to the bits they tend to rip off opponants/themselfs i guessed that from reading up the rulles etc and i want a spinner but i think its better to have more options to compete and other desings give me that option

[RogueTwoRobots]

Yeah the number of parts that get thrown off robots by spinners could easily take out some audience members if it wasn't for the requirement that spinner-friendly arenas have to have a protective cocoon of polycarb.

Sounds like a good plan for your first FW to go for a non-spinner, that way it allows you to compete in more than one or two events a year and gives you a chance to try out your robot without worrying about encountering a spinner in your first ever battle.
To be honest though, even though there are some powerful brushless motor-powered spinners emerging, the age-old idea that every match against a spinner results in your robot being taken home in a bin bag in bits doesn't really hold true anymore. A robot doesn't need to be severly over-armoured to survive a spinner. As long as the general construction is quite robust and perhaps carries some thicker armour in the more exposed places, the majority of damage will probably be some torn edges or a ripped panel or two, simple repair job.

A four-wheel drive robot with a 'tasty little lifter' is pretty much the setup of one of my robots, Kaizer. It was really nippy around the arena but it's currently in bits because my teammate enjoyed driving it full-pelt into both the arena walls and the opponents' spinning discs, and I didn't really construct it robustly
Also, the tasty little lifter was actually quite slow and didn't get used much but it was a nice setup to have and could've been good at controlling a battle if the robot didn't handle like a five-year-old kid high on E-numbers!

So yeah, what all that rambling translates to is me saying that your plan of a Storm II inspired 4WD lifter robot is a solid platform for a good featherweight robot

[suvv]

humm in bits you say thier wouldent be any bits that you would take some form of payment for??? loved the bit about kids on e-numbers has givin me an idea for its name now that i have started to do designs rather than doodles

[RogueTwoRobots]

If there were some spare bits I would be happy to sell them on but, to be honest, there isn't much left to it. The wheels, drill motors and speed controllers and radio gear have gone into another robot, the batteries have been returned to their original owner (they were borrowed for two events) and all that is left is a beat-up chassis and the linear actuator for the lifter, which I'll be using again when Kaizer's rebuilt.

Sorry I can't be of any help in that respect, but if you need parts and want to try for second-hand stuff before buying new, just pop what you need in a post on the Wanted section of the forum and hopefully someone can help you out.

[suvv]

at the moment in mot sure what i need cause i am a weirdo in that i useally get the bits and build around them rather than the other way round i like the idea of making a waepon then working out how to mobilise it

[suvv]

this may sound like a mad question but could somone mesure up the drill motors/gearboxs that come from thouse cheep argoss drills and give me the dimensions as i am trying to make drawings so i know what i have to play with and i sudenly relised that i haven a clue what size the motors are :blush: