Team Troubles Robot Projects

[calumco]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

u mean connect 4 jamie? lots of disk shaped pieces of plastic being placed vertically into the game frame thing:P tom you be tryin to put them in vorizontally which would mean they wont fit so the verts would win

i've decided to go back to using H its only when its grouped with FTW or orizontal that it becomes wrong to use:P

[xtreme]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

Just hijacking your build diary for a sec calum. Been doing some work on Savage Evo today, I replaced a drive motor and grub screws holding the drive gears onto the motor shafts today. Also i rebuilt the gearbox for the spinning disk. The chassis on Evo is bent quite alot and some of the welds have broke, so im going to brace it up some time this week and then grind out some of the welds and weld it myself. Might rebuild the whole robot if i have time. Ill build it exactly the same as it is now, so you probs wont even be able to tell its been rebuilt.

Hows yours coming along Calum?

[calumco]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

good to hear you've sorted some of the problems out, i say its better than just sticking it back in the arena like said u were going to do the other day lol


and its the same still lol,
im gonna do some more tomorrow though sort out the battery holder thingy, cut some hdpe extra armour panels and im going to cut a new piece of pipe for the drum as the one i've got isn't cut straight. i should have my endcaps, teeth and wheels to me by wednesday ish with a bit of luck - if i do, ill get the drum sorted and mounted the next day and then order the right sized belt in time for a test at the weekend- then if anything goes massivly wrong- like the robot destroys its self or something ill have a couple of weeks to sort it out still

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

If you're in the process of rebuilding/repairing Savage Evo Tom, you should just rotate the plane of the disc setup by 90 degrees, and you'll have yourself an awesome spinner that you can proudly class as vertical

[xtreme]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

Caulm I had a few hours to kill today, so i thought ill have a play with evo, within 30 secs the motor that was crushed started sparking, the back plate on the motor popped right of and it was shorting out. When i took the side pannels off to change the motor i saw broken welds, so whole robot has to come appart to get the frame out. I rebuilt the gearbox just because i had nothing else to do at the time.
Jamie why would i wanna do that? Everyone knows an ok-ish horizontal can beat the best vert. FACT!
We better start typing on the events discussion page about the tag champs shouldnt we? were messing up your build diary thread

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

Haha yeah poor Calum's build thread is disappearing amongst the raging debate of vertical vs vorizontal

[calumco]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

lol its a price worth paying jamie,

tom you should change your signature to ' if its not spinnin vertically, its not fun' makes more sence as im sure jamie would aggree:P

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

Jamie needs to shift his a$$ into bed.

But yes, I agree

[Mouldy]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

im guessing your anti HORIZONTAL device is like this .. http://www.happyrobots.com/images/sun2-7_lg.jpg

thats what this wise drum bot decided to do.. http://www.happyrobots.com/images/sun2-6_lg.jpg

IMO he was sensible he woulda been stupid to put a verticle up against a horizontal.

[team_orr]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

boo! hooray for vertical! whats a minor implosion from a Vorizontal :wink: when we can have pure awesomeness

[xtreme]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

Talk in tag champs chat, His build diary is starting to fade away.
besides more people with spinners are likely to look there so we will get more opinions.

[calumco]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

in an effort to re-light my build diary thread heres some pics etc

dave no its not lol mabye a bit similar but my drum will be protected from horizontals but at the same time be able to hit stuff- intrigued? im not merry or tipsy either:P

did some more today

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thats the 12 volt battery thats fixed to the base of the robot held in at one end by the drum motor bulkhead and the other end by a fastening thingy

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here i've mounted each speedo for the 2 drill motors on the front blukhead that sits behind the drum

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above- heres almost all the innards inside the robot, im waiting for the drill motor brackets to get delivered so the drills are loosely sat in there, and the top battery pack mounts can be seen, and below is another pic with the top battery in place which will be fully held inplace by the top lid.

and heres another pic (in the next post below the first one) of the robot with the drum sat in there, and i've got some wheels which are similar to the ones im going to be finally using and i've just leaned them against the robot to get a sence of how non horizontal proof they will be:P

seeing as the top battery is going to be such a serious axe magnet, ill be running the drive off the bottom battery so if the top battery gets axed the drum will probabily just not work- but ill still be able to drive about

[calumco]

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personally i think its gonig to look strangely square, but ill just stop complaining:P

[xtreme]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

Looking orite calum. Loving the fastening thingy.

[joey_picus]

Re: Team Troubles Robot Projects

Looks good, hope it turns out as well as your other machines

Is the roll of random tape an essential structural component or did it just end up in there?