RobotWars101

For those interested, the registration site opened:

It is in English and German.

The 2 top plates are 10mm HDPE1000.
The larger front plate is 6mm.

haz wrote:sleek indeed.
stupidly powerful flipper I presume?

As written in the first part, it's a 140mm bore ram. @10 bar 1500 kg. And it is FP....

8.4 tons... Need a lift?

Sleek....

Yesterday, it was time for the first pressure tests with CO2. I should have recorded it. Opening the CO2 bottle, it takes a while to hear the filling noise stop. Good and bad in 1 go. The good news, pressure build up is smooth. Disadvantage, refill time is longer than expected. But that was with onl...

More bits and bobs.

Again a mornings work to report.

The flipper recieved the push-plate tube. Front armor remodelled a tad sleeker.
And the 2mm thick ali batterybox got the 2 dampeners.

Combined with more mundane shores, I found the time to cut and weld some Hardox.

A more convulted piece of plumbing. Trying to keep it as simple and light as possible, as wel small enough to give the bottles free passage, it was a fun-welding-experience. But after a mornings work, I connected every bit. http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w13/Babetheke/Robot%20Wars/TheCO2vains.jpg

And a bit more.



As Babeth remarked, The froglegs (drives) are hard to digest, but that tongue is as dangerous as that of a first class gossip.