28th March - Nottingham - Roaming Robots

[xtreme]

took us 4 and a quater hour to get home, And its only a 1 hour 20min journey normally. Slight bit of traffic on M1 last night.

[calumco]

tom if u used gainzys sat nav to get home im not surprised probs took u complete wrong way lol took bout hour to find the place from my house after u picked me up. sat nav took us there the looooonnnnng way

was good event, pinsors claws and the mechanism got wrecked again so im giving the whole robot a rest for a while whilst i go back to he drawing board because they obviously arnt strong enough but gives me time to get other unfinished robots up and running.

and nippers, you got a few more good hits on my 'shiney' lid again almost went thru aswell, ill get LH back at somepoint

[RogueTwoRobots]

pinsors claws and the mechanism got wrecked again

What happened? Seeing as my claw mechanism is a fair bit weaker than yours, if I can learn what might need strengthened based on Pinsor's mechanism (as it's seen a good deal more combat than Carcinus) it can only be a good thing.

[xtreme]

I think his bent near a weld. His claws have loads of holes in too so that weakened them and also where the bars that push/pull his claws he has one side of the box section cut out of the claw as his bars pivot inside his claws. You have them on the outside so thats a bit stronger. Do you have any pics of your claws Jamie and the whole robot.

[calumco]

toms just about right

somehow ones bent in where 2 bits of box meet each other-where they've been welded, where the claws pivot the box section has twisted and distorted so its not box shaped anymore, where the pivot bolt goes into the claws i welded a section of steel plate and drilled through that aswell for the pivot bolt to make the hole strong through each side of the box section but even the holes in the 5mm thick steel plate have distorted/streched and you can wobble the claws up and down freely, one claws completly twisted anyway from major damage few events ago when i had to hammer it flat again. push rods goin from the actuator to each claw- holes on them are now pretty much like egg shapes and one is curved still from when major damage bent the claw up it bent the push rod with it.

not too sure about making the claws in the same way again thou because they might jus get damaged the same again, might look at getting some made properly like on kan opener, will have to see

but rest of the robots fine.

[teamshock]

Thanks for a great event we really enjoyed it!

Maelstrom did have a couple of issues but still managed to win it's UK champs fight as well as retaining the Team Bud Challenge trophy (although we were very lucky to win)

also whirlwind finally worked properly with some great flips

[john]

took us 4 and a quater hour to get home, And its only a 1 hour 20min journey normally. Slight bit of traffic on M1 last night.

took us ages as well to get to leeds



after jonnos cracked his flipper, beast is on its way to doing it to, so next event should be good for us

beauty 2 was still owning the arena, cnt wait for uk champs!

[RogueTwoRobots]

Do you have any pics of your claws Jamie and the whole robot.

Not very good ones and not to hand at the moment but could possibly get some. Basically I've got four strips of 4mm aluminium (grade unknown), two for each claw, that connect between the linear actuator mounting hole and the claws. Kinda like the push-rods Calum's got but each rod is two separate pieces and bolt on to the outside of the claw like you said. The ends of the claws that mount onto the pivot rod in the robot are also little aluminium pieces with holes in them and they bolt on to the ends of the claws. So those ali parts will be the bits that fail first probably.
Doubt Carcinus is going to see too much punishing combat though so hopefully won't suffer too quickly. Unless I have a mad spell and enter it into the full comp at the next champs.

[craig_colliass]

Any video of stinger at this event?

[robotwars]

Vids are on our youtube account.... www.youtube.co.uk/roamingrobots

nottingham show opener 2010.m4v is the one with stinger.

I love driving it, even with its few problems !!! Nasty sting to its tail too !!