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Good luck with construction; you'd be surprised how many of the rest of us are in the same boat! :)

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Around 58g (the whole thing weighs ~98g), which should mean it has a reasonable amount of grip, certainly more than it has now... If I can find the space I'm gonna try add some extra weight, and hopefully should cure some of it's problems.
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Cheers Anticyclone! :P

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Rory Mangled :D
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Some how I think I'll make sure it's made of polycarbonate instead of acrylic next time! (though I could've sworn I had checked it...)

*EDIT* turns out it was made of vinyl, which explains why it was quite so poor, and also why it fooled me into thinking it was poly! :P
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Newly repaired Lionel with a poly-carbonate top.

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It's a little on the thin side at only 1mm, but it's all I've got atm (that's not 6mm which is too heavy).

Also planning another ant (possibly a spinner) before next AWS; work will start on that around the start of June after exams..
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Rory, is there a reason for the name Lionel or is it just a name?
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Well I was gonna call it 'Denominator', but during a few rounds of the Robot Wars drinking game in my flat, my housemates decided that it was a stupid name and that it should be called something like Lionel... The name somehow stuck :P
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Stanley narrowly avoided being renamed to Richie in the same incident (Which is now used for Rory's feather) :P
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I wondered if all you guys had named them in a similar way. Are you aware of my 'Lionel Richie' based ant? Haha
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