Safety, anyone?

Remote-Controlled Dave · Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:47 pm

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

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:53 pm

Looks like fun, although that disc with no battlebox makes me cringe

Remote-Controlled Dave · Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:11 am

The rockets make me cringe! lol. There's also a brief shot of Ramfire 500, or "the heavyweight with the nail gun cannon"

malivoirec · Post by **malivoirec** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:38 am

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.

Remote-Controlled Dave · Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:27 pm

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).

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:43 pm

Dave you have to much free time

Remote-Controlled Dave · Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:29 pm

Andrew, you are correct.

Starless Aeons · Post by **Starless Aeons** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:31 am

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).

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?

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!

Remote-Controlled Dave · Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:47 pm

Well, I don't think the current arenas even allow IC at all...I know they said we couldnt have petrol at the featherweight champs last month

Craig_Anto3 · Post by **Craig_Anto3** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:02 am

some of us do