armour

[plargen]

does anyone know in 2mm mild steel will hold up against the beetle spinner

[harry hills]

It would really depend on the angle, but generally not that great I don't think. Thicker plastic armour or titanium would hold up much better.

[plargen]

unfortunately i haven't got a tig welder so ti is out of the question as the shape i want will need to be welded i could bolt some plastic round the lower half or get some high carbon welding rods and leave a bead of weld round the lower half

[harry hills]

Its all a bit hard to say what will work as armour yet, you may well be fine with 2mm steel if the angle is right. What exactly are you making?

[Max]

I believe you can stick/arc weld titanium if that helps.

[Eventorizon]

I am going to be gambling on 3D printed armour so it cant do much worse than that now can it. I would say its fine, but bring a hammer and something to beat it against.

[harry hills]

3d printed beetle? Nice! Care to reveal any details? Sorry, bit off topic.

[plargen]

i was going to do a slightly more complicated beetle version of scruffy

also i have looked for stick rods for titanium and i can only find the rods for tig

3d printing could be good and at least it would be easy to make spares

[harry hills]

Would love to see a beetlweight Scruffy
That has fairly slanted sides, and doesn't have that many flat panels for spinners to catch. Hmmm. Have you considered bending 1 price of material instead of welding?

[plargen]

ive looked into others methods but welding is the easiest with what i have avalable

[Mega Masher]

Sorry to go kinda off topic here, but harry mentioned using titanium, so what kind of thickness would people use for a beetle spinner/horizontal thwackbot/melty for structure and stuff

[Eventorizon]

There have not been enough recent Beetle events for any kind of patterns to emerge but I would say 1mm of Grade 5 Ti should be able to take most of what a beetle spinner can dish out.

The softer grades (1-4) would need more but you could bend those back where as you cant with anything Grade 5 and up.

[Mega Masher]

Thanks
So 1mm grade 5 and 1.5 to 2mm grade 1 to 4
Ok
Im thinking of re doing shred, but this time it may be tough enough to last more that 0.376 seconds in the arena. It may even be able to damage something tougher than a cereal box





The 0.376 seconds thing is completely made up btw

[Mega Masher]

Btw, why cant you bend grade 5 ti

[Max]

It's hard but more brittle (I think) so will snap rather than bending.