Team Trouble - Build diary

[calumco]

Going with a 3.5kg beater for this now, dave has swayed me lol

metals soon to be on order £50 including postage or something, and im getting a quote for the cutting as we speak from a place in nottingham.

asked at work today about getting the ends turned down to a 17mm radius and they've got some 4 jaw vices/chucks that can be put into the cnc machines, so im all sorted this will all obviously be in the new year, as will getting the beater cut etc.

getting pinsors claw pivot sections made tomorrow morning at work too so i can get the 3rd yes thats right 3rd! set of claws finished...... 3rd time lucky i hope

could go into work over christmas to do a few things, but im not that crazy

[Mouldy]

You using that design I made for you?

[calumco]

The deisgn you did which was off balance until i noticed?

mabye........., don't walk when you can catch a bus

[Mouldy]

It wasn't of balance, the teeth overlapped when spinning so I changed it for u because you didn't know how to use CAD designed for muppets.

[calumco]

Love you dave, you know ill pay you back with hardox

[calumco]

went to robots live at Telford for an expo event, used my flipper feather which i had been testing excessivly at home with a lot of success!! Having said that during the first fight the rams end cap came apart :P keeping the robot out of use for the rest of the day.

fixed it this morning by making a little plate to bolt onto the end of the ram with my day off work. so fingers crossed for next time!

video from the event........


- technically won the fight i think good timesssss

[Mouldy]

pretty good how you made a feather that weighs 17kg

[calumco]

built a year ago ye lol, was that new one not in weight! Eh eh :P

[calumco]

Progress today on TS2.

with the uk champs up and comming i decided to get some things done to this robot, chassis is about done now, aside from the top lid and back panel

pics.............

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Hardox lower outer armour but will be adding more if the weights there, but thats already 5kg in the picture and with a 3.5kg weapon its gonna be a close one. luckily all is not lost, if despiratly needed i can get the nylon pocketed at work as its 22mm thick! hoping its in weight enough to get 2 more pieces on hardox on the wheel guards to stop them jamming against the wheels from hard hits.

probabily shooting myself in the foot but if theres a chance it'll be flipped over it'll have some 75mm wheels which will simply press against the drive wheels allowing it to have at least some form of movement upside down

also made the armor in a way so its connected together around the whole of the robot hopefully adding extra strength. its not pretty just yet as i've only spent the day cutting the basic shapes of hardox and getting them welded together.

more to come soon....

[calumco]

Just seen my draw for the uks, im well happy with who im fighting against on the saturday, other than centrifuge im feeling quietly confident but don't wana jinx anything so im staying shhhh and not being too cocky as anything could go wrong lol,

buying lipos and chargers etc for TS2 next week so i can get things mounted inside properly, may start making a motor mount and wiring things up later thou daves getting my beater sorted for me too

with my ali flipper the flipper blades about 6 foot off the floor because the wheels have worn down so bought a new pair off robochallenge, but they need putting on a machine at work to remove some of the material so they will be like the old ones... pic below