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looks really nice, looking forward to seeing it fight 
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got Ed to turn the drum pulley down 0.3mm... think the belt was too tight last year which caused a belt to break... seems perfect now;
decided to paint it... looked kinda bland polished ;
All finnished now minus 1 cable tie and a small piece of foam its sitting at 13.575g... Should be bang on
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With the amount of work Ed does on this robot, surely it should be his entry for the champs
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Yeah prob lol i just design and assemble these days... need a workshop at home...
Atleast my design technique is so awesome that people like you rip me off #tartComment
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Looking good as usual. It's going to be an interesting fight!Comment
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I think there should be a constructors champ as well! I've got 3 in that this year.Comment
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Got both 720 and 722 done early, so picked up 360 from robochallenge today where its been for the last few years... stuck some tz85's in it, tightened up a few bolts, put the link in and its good to go
wierd... spent years trying to get 360 to work and had loads of failures... neglect it for 2 years, slap it back together and it runs fine...
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3 robots ready when half of the people are panicking over one. Quit rubbing it in.Comment
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Great to see 360 back! Are you using it in whiteboards at all, or just demos or something?Comment
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no idea lol just thought id take it... its sat in a display cabinet dead for the last few years... just thought if its gonna be on display it might aswell potentially run lol, id probably only demo it these days as its not worth getting it smashed...id rather keep it as a display piece.Comment
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Might as well, be cool to see it in action if you do run it!Comment
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It was the scorpion causing the problems IIRC, the motors along with the magnet were drawing too much? Good to see it running again.
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yeah it was, the bosch's must be pulling a fair bit, drove it around for a while and they got warm which surprised me...
Found both the lipo's are nakard in it though so I've ordered some new ones- all being well they'll turn up Tuesday, and i should be able to give it a run at some point... haven't risked a spinup test above about 100rpm yet due to dodgy lipo's, so i'll try it on the day
It drives pretty smooth now on the TZ's though;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZPSdXROMYYComment
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World champs report;
Did a few testing days, found a problem with one of my new lipos which ended up in the fire box, glad i found that out before the comp,
I also did a demo where i smashed up an old computer screen... probably a bad move as loads of copper wire got sucked in by the drum belt, wrapping around the motor pulley and jamming it solid, which i think contributed to my motor failure in the main competition...
first fight; 722 vs Defector vs catharsis
Went okay, defector got pretty mashed up, the driver tapped out, i got a glancing blow on catharsis which seemed to KO something internally- luckily for me as catharsis was the only robot who scared me in the entire competition, once tim's got that shaken down its going to be a strong contender- 4 points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcXVNNUyKd8
Second fight; 722 vs scruffy vs loki - Loki had problems when gassing up so it was just me and scruffy, got a hit on it, he got stuck on the wall - another 4 points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbd6KJDE92w
third fight- 722 vs mr mangle vs gluton - this one could of gone badly, Gluton pulled out due to early damage, me and mr mangle had a few knocks at eachother, then i got a good hit on mr mangle, knocking it out the arena so hard, it bounced back in, then bounced itself back out again- another 4 points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9hYQmC35g4
last fight- 722 vs hanibilito vs explosion; not really sure what happened here... looking forward to seeing the footage back, i think i went straight for explosion as i saw it as a bigger threat, as i hadnt seen hanibilito work in any of its fights up until this point, just my luck the one time it did work, it was wedged under the back end of 722 and flipped me out- I allready had enough points to go through at this stage and didnt really even need to enter, but still - got another 1 point and got through to the next round
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHajdJiM7-4
next round- first fight against galactus;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLKnWcExnvQ
Got drawn against disturbance... my old robot 540 without the weapon working.. as soon as i span up i heard something wasnt right as the drum was screaming.... turns out the motor bearing had given up (possibly caused by the damage from the test day)... fight was kinda boring, few nocks and shoves until my motor over heated, pulled too much current and the fuse protecting the lipo blew.. so glad ive got that fuse, as the insides of the robot were pretty warm after that round.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfvvjf4LCo8
quick pit stop for the losers melee- thanks to Ed, Gunty, Adam, Calum, Glen etc for the extra hands... a 720/722 world record time attack repair seems to be an annual thing now, and its always impressive lol
same problem again, it seems the speed of the drum is causing the grease to fly out of the drum bearings, causing it to over heat- this time against mr mangle and tormenta 3.... the esc over heated, so the drum stopped... tried to spin up again, fuse blew due to over current... so i tapped out to let Ellis and Nick go through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81o155hVMpk
got bored being out of the competition...so decided to find some pieces of broken robots and make a trophy for the drum off competition... grabbed galactus's old drum, mr mangles skid i ripped up, drumrolls old drum motor and some of 720's skids, along with some wooden bits from endeverour and titanium from PJ and set to work... it actually came out pretty well, got all the entrants into the drum off to sign it, then we fought it out... BOOM instant bragging rights for 12 months as i kicked there ass's.. specially Jamie's, which is the most important thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRIjEER0wto
So next year....
New sharper teeth for 722 to improve engagement (was lacking this year as the teeth were very used)
New sharper longer skids to kill flippers with
lighter better grip wheels
top secret getting under super low flipper thing device
Hopefully 3mm titanium base to match the topComment
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