Boring Brick

[mattsdragons]

All sounds good, will this be invertable?

If so, you might want to change the 10mm Nylon baseplate for a 10mm HDPE one, will take the hits better when flipped over and look at 2x 9.6v batteries instead, be running the motors at slightly over rated voltage to make sure it's not underpowered plus its nothing the TZ85's can't handle

And finally, welcome to the forum

[mrsam]

Yeah the name needs some work, it's just until i can be bothered to put my mind to it but thanks very much for your comments

[maddox10]

A good base to start with. Lots of practice, and you have a machine that can give you a lot of fun in the arena.

But a better name is a must. Boring Brick is a generic name for the class.

[mrsam]

After many, many years of having an interest in this hobby i've finally found the balls to give it a go. I'm not going to try and make anything too spectacular for my first one so it is going to be as the title suggests...... a boring brick .
Specs at the moment are as follows..

Nylon chassis and baseplate probably 10mm with 10mm hdpe around the sides to hopefully suck up the worst of the damage.
4mm stainless wedge at the front, will probably change to hardox at some point
2 Gimson GR02 18v gearboxes with 70mm wheels
TZ85 speed controllers
2 8.4v 3700ah NIMH batteries in series to give 16.8v

Any comments or suggestions please feel free i'm here to learn after all
Pictures to follow when i start the build