Safety, anyone?
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Safety, anyone?
Found this footage on youtube recently, from Robot Wars 94 in America. Before rules and safety were a chief concern obviously!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do0tMegE ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do0tMegE ... annel_page
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I remember there was a purple tracked robot named "X1" where it used a mini exposion to fire it's ram. Didn't pain in series 2 try the same weapon? It was such a dissapointment that it didn't run. I wanted to see it work.
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It wasn't called X1, it was a middleweight called Z. It used a shotgun cartridge to fire a spike out. X1 was made by the Winters who later built Tentomushi and SOFO and was perfectly "safe" in terms of robots.
Pain did use a small explosion to fire their spike but it was nowhere near the danger of Z. would still be illegal nowadays however, unless this Battlebots "anything goes" class takes off (which I dont think it will).
Pain did use a small explosion to fire their spike but it was nowhere near the danger of Z. would still be illegal nowadays however, unless this Battlebots "anything goes" class takes off (which I dont think it will).
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Would Pain be legal under the IC engine rules though? IIRC, it operated by using a HP cylinder to power the strike which was driven by petrol vapour + air being ignited in the cylinder... which would surely count as a (albeit wierd) petrol engine?Dave26 wrote:It wasn't called X1, it was a middleweight called Z. It used a shotgun cartridge to fire a spike out. X1 was made by the Winters who later built Tentomushi and SOFO and was perfectly "safe" in terms of robots.
Pain did use a small explosion to fire their spike but it was nowhere near the danger of Z. would still be illegal nowadays however, unless this Battlebots "anything goes" class takes off (which I dont think it will).
I've toyed around with the idea of a full pressure flipper based on that concept, as 500ml of petrol stores orders of magnitude more energy than a tank of liquid CO2... essentially unlimited flips with no degeneration in power due to system icing or pressure drop!
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