hdpe armour thickness

[gizmo]

what would be the optimum thinkness of hdpe on a featherweight rambot. taking into account, weight, price and protection

[harry hills]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

10-20mm

[jonny]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

go as thick as you have the weight/cash for

[Danjr1]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

I'm running 20mm HDPE frame with 5mm aluminium lids. Seems to work fine!

[PJ-27]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

We had 13mm HDPE on Bitza and LH (after three rounds mind) managed to crack it, as well as put some good 5mm deep gouges in it.

Explosion on the other hand has very thin HDPE which makes in malleable, meaning it takes hits very well, but that it also down to their Hardox frame its built on.

So remember how you mount it is also important, and thickness isn't everything with HDPE as it can always crack.

[gizz]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

Building mine out of 15mm along with 5mm top and bottom

[Anttazz]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

Mine is 6mm armour, lid and base. Bulkheads are 15-20mm RG1000 and Nylon sometimes double up to 35mm. 6mm did cut big cuts out of it when I fought Buzzbar, but it cost £8 to replace/repair it all with lots left over.

[mattsdragons]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

I'm using 8mm for the base and lid on my feather but I'm no help with chassie since I'm using 4mm steel

[gizmo]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

going off track a bit could a £10 argos drill run at 18v?

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

Theoretically yes. The standard rule for overvolting motors is that 150% is the maximum safe value (so for a 12V motor this would be 18V) but you can never be totally sure when it comes to running components beyond their specification. I've got a pair of the Argos drills but I haven't used them yet. However I will be running them on 19.2V (slightly over the 150% rule) so will see how they perform then.

[mattsdragons]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

ive got a pair that im going to run at 16.8v and they should be fine.... in theory

[razerdave]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

Just a side note (to PJ), Your armour is LDPE chopping board, hence it cracked. HDPE won't do that.

I recommend 8-12mm thick will stop most things.

[maddox10]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

Hannibalito III uses a belt of 10mm HDPE with 20mm add-ons against spinners. 5mm bottom and a combination of 10 and 8mm on top.

After 4 years it's still ok to go.

[PJ-27]

Re: hdpe armour thickness

@ Dave, LDPE eh.... Interesting.....