No you're right Alex, but the disc is on Matilda and would have been banned anyway. Took us about 2 hrs to get the disc mech out on monday. At the moment i'm just going to use the scoop on the back as the weapon, but we're a bit away from that at the moment, been concentrating on Eric.

On T-Bone, we basically stripped it down to each individual component then started rebuilding. Made some motor mounts and painted the mounts and scoop brackets then went about replacing the lettering, pictures and hazard tape. Should be ready for saturday, then depending on how Eric is doing i'll come back to it next week and see about the event a week on sunday.

On Eric, Either the belts are slipping from design or they have stretched over the past 14 years or whatever it is since Eric last ran. The idea was to have them running over some plastic blocks, but I found they ran better have a tensioner on the top and bottom of the belt rather than just on the bottom. So, i've made a kind of tensioner ring out of HDPE for each belt and it seems to be working pretty well. Now to test it on the ground, but can't really lift it myself.

Strangely, before the test we were fitting the batteries that were going to be a total nightmare, that was until Jamie spotted the huuuuge batteries I had stashed in the Dalek and we tried them out, and it was literally made for them! Perfect fit for 2 of them inside the robot, and it gives us a massive 34Ah capacity at 12v. Will probably go for 17Ah at 24v instead, if the tensioners hold up.

The weapon probably won't be working for Edinburgh, the complex hydraulics are a bit above my head so will need to talk to someone in the know about them, hopefully one of our hydraulics experts will be present at RL Edinburgh

Here's a video of it at the moment, sorry its upside down!: