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A short report. Arriving Friday mid noon at the wonderous O2 , dragging in all the stuff for 3 Dutch Heavies (Tough As Nails,Gravity 5.1 and Mantis) and 2 Feathers (Iets and Yes) , settling ourselfs and meeting all the people we didn't see for a year or more. Some wandering around and lots of talkin...

for mild steel and HSS/cobalt bits. speed 20m/min means 0.002*pi*Xrpm=20m/min Xrpm=20/(0.002*pi-)=3185 rpm Feed is 0.1mm/rev , meaning you'll drill trough the bar in 5 seconds. Taking a tad longer won't hurt the drill tough. But with such small drills, any deviation from the 90? drilling angle will ...

Polycarbonate is rather resilient to shattering if used well.

It's the lookalike acrylic glass that shatters easely.

Very simple, MMM12 will happen 8-9 october.
Again it's at the known venue

Rollsporthalle
Harpener Heide 5
44805 Bochum

Ants have their dedicated spot and time too.

Same guy.

@Simon, I had fun writing this up. Everybody, if it's not up to part in language, let me know via PM, so I can work on my English @Dave, Kashei uses a custom MOSFET H-bridge with a pulse of a few tenths of a second to power the axe. With a transmitter triggered override on timing if the needs mandat...

A short report on the Terracon. Babs and me had booked 2 nights in the very large hotel Koningshof. Not cheap, but assuredly not money trown away. Small cosy room, good-albeit narrow bed. Arriving friday evening, helping setting up the arena. Some of the other standholders had set up their stuff, an...

It seems, just like the German event from last weekend, we continentals overlooked this great site. March 25th, DRG is having the second of it's 2010-2011 Full combat competition events in Veldhoven, at a Sci Fi Convention " SF Terra Terracon 2011" The DRG is already hosting an internation...

Team RCC got there, and for the first time in years, no trophies for us. (previous event either, but that was due entirely other reasons) Katyusha is awaiting a new spinner motor. Nebelwerfer is in tiny bits , awaiting a resurrection. Hannibalito III had a good outing, but the all round character an...

There is a Dutch feather in use, PulveR, that uses a full fledged hydraulic setup that has at least 500 kg on the tip. And even with that kind of force, there are feathers that just shrug it off without even a dent. BonX springs to mind. Even the Soft Skinned Hannibalito's don't care much. The shape...