Bodge Job's Build Diary

[Laser]

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Alex, couyld you please upload the pics
also, is the system airtight yet and does the valve work?

[Bodge Job]

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yeh im goint to upload the to photo bucket, or what ever you call it, and no, i havent had time to sort out the leaks...

[Bodge Job]

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im building a beetle with a spinning drum, and was wondering if the name Rocky was taken??? thanks

[Bodge Job]

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I have added a new wedge to Bruiser: http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h46 ... C-orig.jpg
and hopefully I will be adding spikes to the back soon (pretty inifective, I know ) lol

and I have neally finished my beetle weight flipper's shell:
http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h46 ... 1-orig.jpg
but I still need to finish of the internals...

[razerdave]

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Thats a nicely made wedge, and your beetle looks great, 2 parts Little Flipper, 1 part Explosion. Do you do your own metal bending ?

[jonny]

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both look great!

[Bodge Job]

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yeh, I bent most of it but I didnt bend one strip which is out of view (because it is coved up by the lid) and that strip was bent for me by the company that gave me the metal.

[Laser]

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And i did the pneumatics for it!

[Bodge Job]

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haha yeh you did help me with the pnumatics in the beetle... but sadly I wont be useing that set up, because it could only lift about 400 grams.... so im going to either upgrade it to full presure, or make some fancy system useing springs and elastics...

[Laser]

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full pressure

[Bodge Job]

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yeh, i want to make it full presure, but its really expensive, and for all the pnumatics it weighs over a kilo, so the only way i could make it work is by giveing the robot legs so it gets the weight allowence... so its a bit to complicated for my first beetle... lol

[Ellis]

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With a meaty enough spring you could easily chuck 1.3kg around, surely? Problem is resetting it... how did Diotor do theirs way back in the RW days?

[Anttazz]

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Could copy the way the Battle Ratz do it, I have some photos on my photo bucket the way they do it, it uses a combination of a hook attached to the flipper arm and a motor to catch it.

[blazerbotics]

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Diotor used a hydrualic ram to pull it back down.

[PJ-27]

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I think a Beetle with a flipper will be lamb to the slaughter.....