Red Wedding

[harry hills]

Red wedding. It's fights should be short, brutal and ruin everything for everyone just like its namesake.

Ellis and I got these discs cut at the same time, he used his on Newton and I tried fruitlessly to use one in a vertical. Just slightly too big to get it to look right (derpy proportions etc) or be in the weight limit. Horiz it was then

Most of you know Newton as a phenomenal piece of workmanship and a wonderful testament to what can be achieved with skill on the builders part, hand tools, patience and lots of care taken over every detail to get it perfect.

This is very not that.

Characterless and careless, Red Wedding should come together fairly simply and *probably* make a half decent robot at the cost of having any soul. I decided I'd want something that works and goes together nicely for once : P

So far this is what happened







I tapped the holes myself at least lol.

[Eventorizon]

How did you make the piece that forms the back and sides from one piece? Did you machine it yourself or was it done elsewhere?

Oh and we need stats! Voltage, RPM, Mass.. etc!

[harry hills]

Its just dished out from a bit of 30mm plate. CNC Milled. I didn't fancy doing it myself added it on to the bulkheads order as an afterthought.

Disc is about 500g with all the pulleys and stuff. NFI on what the RPM but about 8000 Theoretical. I might end up dropping down to 3s to get the speed down.

[harry hills]

Shaft shortened and threaded, disc mounted. Spins pretty freely and clearance is all good.

[harry hills]

Did a little work on the top and base of RW. Cut out some carbon fibre to insert into the top panel. For a totally handmade part it fits pretty nicely.





Also I've been shopping. ESC's and motor ordered. Got some fingertech stuff from technobots would have liked to get some tinyescs but those will have to wait until funds are back. Got some foam wheels which I'll turn some alu or hdpe hubs for and a fingertech switch. NFI if the beetleweight EO's will let me use it but it was too nice not to buy one. Can always use it in an antweight or something maybe or a passive beetle if people are uncomfortable with weaponed beetles running with a fingertech switch.
I've ordered a few lengths of threaded bar from ranglebox. That is how I intend to hold these panels in and mount wheel guards and thing if needed. Got some of the M6 too to use for ease of internal mounting in my featherweight, Massacre.

[mrsam]

Nice work Harry liking that CF panel especially, what are the dimensions of it? it looks tiny but that might just be that i'm too used to looking at Lynx seeing as it's roughly the size of a small moon.

[harry hills]

150 wide, 182.5mm long and the disc is 180mm diameter

[mrsam]

Yepp tiny then, Lynx is something stupid like 250mm x 250mm with a 350mm bar.

[Mega Masher]

Where'd you get your carbon fibre from haz?

[daveimi]

That's such a clever disk.

[harry hills]

Carbon fibre came from ebay.

[Mega Masher]

Thanks

[harry hills]

Stuff turned up



Threaded bar. Super quick delivery. Really nice stuff, surprising how rigid it is. Looks to be super useful for generic fixing of panels and stuff. No complaints thus far. Lets see if I do once I've used it.



Fingertech switch (which I wasn't allowed to use in the end ho hum) This is tiny. Quid coin for scale. Would use on a passive beetle or an antweight if I can. Its such a little cutey.



Foam wheels arrived. Pretend-O- Bot shot of RW with Egg to give an idea of size.

[mrsam]

Really impressed with how quickly this thing is coming together, looking really nice, what's the weight currently at?

[harry hills]

1316g without pulley or wheels and something else I can't remember