Indeed, leverage and all that. Not going to bother cutting a bit off just now though, because I've just got it looking all pretty with a paint job
It should manage alright but I'll see how it performs at Edinburgh and then shall take things from there. I've replaced the 15A Electronize controlling the lifter with the Victor 885 that's sitting unused in Drumroll at the moment. Quite a change of rating I know, but at least there's no risk of burning out the controller
Plus the Victor has the brake/coast jumper option and having it on brake allows for some precise lifter positioning.

Both Carcinus and Kaizer are ready to go for Edinburgh. Taking them and all necessary tools to Glasgow with me tomorrow as I won't be home before the event to collect them. Need to give both sets of batteries a few cycles so might borrow a flatmate and go and try to find somewhere quiet to drive them about, preferably away from any possible interaction with the, err, local population (pure aye man, whit's that pure crazy thing there you goat, is tha' liek tha' Robot Wars s**** that wuz oan the telly?)

In other news, the basic chassis for my mini-Cassius II replica kilobot is coming together. Got the base panel, main bulkheads and flipper arm all made (pics tomorrow) so it should just be a case of buying all the remaining components, installing them then armouring up, but when is it ever as simple as it sounds?
I was planning to armour it all in polycarb in the same way as Cassius is but with all the angles on the body, the brittleness of the poly I have and the thickness (3mm probably won't stand up to the spinners that well) I think I might plump for some HDPE and paint decals on to make it look like the heavyweight. Might last a bit longer too.

Not sure what it weighs yet but I will be drilling weight-saving holes regardless. Also need to come up with a name for it, so suggestions welcome