Chainsaw?????

[razerdave]

Re: Chainsaw?????

S*!tloads of Duplex chains with teeth ?

[joey_picus]

Re: Chainsaw?????

...good answer

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Chainsaw?????

It would be good though if someone built a heavyweight with a chainsaw that would be allowed to compete. Okay, so they're not that effective but it'd look great, sound great, would have the proper retro-bot feel and, most importantly, wouldn't be a flipper.

Go on somebody, please

[almost_there]

Re: Chainsaw?????

Is it possible to custom design a chainsaw to be more effective at cutting metals than the wood cutting industry standard ones?

I mean, as long as you can get teeth made out of a harder and more abrasive material than what you are cutting, it should work. Why can't you have a chainsaw with tungsten carbide blades coated in diamond dust?

[typhoon_driver]

Re: Chainsaw?????

you probably could but there wouldn't be much point, chainsaws are designed to only take small chunks of material away with each tooth bite. You would have to have your opponent be very nice and stay still for a half minute or so whilst you chomp slowly away at them. Forget the chainsaws, build a disc, drum or egg beater and have some fun in the featherweights

[almost_there]

Re: Chainsaw?????

What about claws to hold them in place coupled with high torque drive to push them around? Then even if the chainsaw does turn out to be useless, you can still control a fight on the strength of the robot (while looking cool, cause... you have a chainsaw).

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Chainsaw?????

In theory it could work, but in reality, getting a set of claws, high torque motors (and necessary battery requirements) and a chainsaw all into the weight limit (not to mention chassis, armour etc) would be a phenomenal challenge. But if you're game, feel free

[almost_there]

Re: Chainsaw?????

No thanks. I'm making an antweight box with lifting spikes.

As a fan I just like to prod the super engineers to make something that looks and works in an original way, but it's much easier to make something that just works if it's another heavyweight flipper, and it will kick the stuffing out of robots that have to be overwrought to get their overwrought weapons to work.

Of course, if it wasn't for side walls to flip robots over, then if people just wanted to win, everybody would just build armored overclocked rambots, let alone flippers. Not that rambots are boring (they definitely aren't), just that every robot being the same type would be a lot less entertaining. A lot of the fun comes from watching differing designs go up against each other.