Peter Wallers Robot Ramblings

[peterwaller]

Just been to the Bentley Advanced Materials place at Feltham (near Heathrow).
They supply the Dragon Skin material I use for my tyre molding.
They have samples of the material available to feel and extremely interested people to chat to.
My existing tyres are 10A shore hardness which equates to about 00-55 on the softer scale.
I have bought some Ecoflex in 00-30 and 00-10 to try out, the really soft one hopefully for the nano's.
Also got a set of 9 fluorescent pigments to colour the tyres so you might want to bring your shades to the events.
I will let you know how they work out when I have done some molding.
The materials can be found on their website here: http://www.benam.co.uk/products/silicone/

[razerdave]

Just looking through your team, you're entering one of the nanos in with Dominant instead of Alsoran?
And 3 fleas?

[peterwaller]

No the nano's are too heavy Alsoran is on top of Dominant in the picture.

[AntRoboteer]

Looks like a fantastic lineup like usual! Good luck - I hope you do well.

[peterwaller]

Here is the first set of tyres in the softest of the new rubber I went for green.
Even the weight of a nano is enough to deform the tread pattern.

The softer material is more stretchy so I will need to glue them on to the wheels to stop them coming off the rims.

[razerdave]

Didn't see Alsoran until you pointed it out. Whoops.
I'd be interested in some of that material for tyres to mould to Stewies' rims (if it comes in black, Stewie wouldn't look right with green wheels!).

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

I completely missed Alsoran too Dave, I assumed he was pairing it up with a nano. I love the colours Peter, I hope all yours are eventually green and yellow! Not enough spinners though...

[peterwaller]

Had a good day with the printer making replacement parts required after the Antweight Open on saturday.

[Rapidrory]

Any mods made, or are they identical to the originals?

[peterwaller]

They are virtually the same.
I did try redoing the three lid mounting brackets on Anticyclone but the printer sliceing software still seem to get them wrong so I had to print those individually and glue them in.