Just an idea, building a robot with no welding

[typhoon_driver]

"The welds will crack/fracture"

If your welds are done properly then they should be far stronger than any keyed or bolted solution to attach teeth to a disc or ring. Typhoon 2s teeth were welded on and they never once had a failure.

I'm curious to see your idea. No point in every spinner being the same with a large etek or similar motor etc.

[Eventorizon]

They are fully welded on all sides and recessed. Bolts can break too you know. If you are that worried about it, you can attach them with a safety line.

I wouldn't bolt them on either. All our weapons are singe billets of metal.

[TechAUmNu]

I wouldn't bolt them on either. All our weapons are singe billets of metal.

If we could do them as a single piece we would.

Its fair enough to make a normal bar or disc spinner from a single piece, but ring spinners are exceedingly expensive just for the ring itself. It would be possible to do if your teeth are inline with the ring which for our spinner would be £>1200 for a single piece to get water jetted. However, our teeth are angled at 45°. So either you get a huge slab of hardox and somehow machine that down, god knows how much that would be. Or you get a single piece ring and weld the teeth on.

[Olivia Grand]

@ MACKEMFOREVER You was asking peoples opinion about building a robot which is bolt together.
" I have plenty of experience" if this is true why are you asking about bolt together robots.
I'm sorry if mere mortals such as myself voice our opinions and they're not to your liking!
On second thoughts bolt your robot together and see what damage it can do against my inferior welded version, geez!

[Liftoff]

Wow! Calm down
He meant plenty of experience in welding not building bolt on bots....at least thats how I got it

[RogueTwoRobots]

The butthurt is strong with this one

[mackemforever]

@ MACKEMFOREVER You was asking peoples opinion about building a robot which is bolt together.
" I have plenty of experience" if this is true why are you asking about bolt together robots.
I'm sorry if mere mortals such as myself voice our opinions and they're not to your liking!
On second thoughts bolt your robot together and see what damage it can do against my inferior welded version, geez!

Well that's an unnecessarily aggressive message isn't it...

Now let's break down your post and make it nice and clear for everybody why you're doing nothing more than making yourself seem like a right tit.

1) Throughout my degree I've done a lot of projects that involved various welding methods and since graduating I've done bits and pieces of personal work that required bits of welding too. That is clearly stated in at least one of my posts on this thread.

2) The reason I asked for opinions on non-welded bots is because the idea of doing it that way is more intersting to me than a welded bot, because it makes the design more challenging and I like a challenge. Again, clearly stated on this thread already.

3) At no point have I said that I believe a non-welded bot would be better than a welded bot. I haven't even said anything that could vaguely be interpreted as having meant that.

4) At no point have I said anything negative towards anybody who has brought up potential problems with attempting to make a non-welded bot.

5) Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?

[mackemforever]

Wow! Calm down
He meant plenty of experience in welding not building bolt on bots....at least thats how I got it

That's how you got it beacuse that's the only logical way to have interpreted what I said! I mean, anybody with half a brain could clearly see that's what I meant.

[Olivia Grand]

Well "Half a brain" is that really the best insult! "Pissed in your cornflakes" is that a bolt on insult?
I could spend time and explain what you've clearly misunderstood, but i'm sure it would be lost on you!

Best thing to do is meet up in the arena and let the robots sort it out!
I'm only interested in winning!
Olivia Grand is just my trial bot to sort out the cheese wedge flippers and the spinning bots.(They seem to be fashionable at the moment)
From data collected the final bot will be built.
Tempering and fabrication has been paused due to one of my rental houses being sold. But i should be back in full flow later this week.
So yep my team will happily take your bolt together job to task and see if i can split it apart.

Love and Kisses

Olivia Grand XXX

[maddox10]

Olivia Grand. If you want to fight heavyweight spinners, you'll have to enter the Robot Wars TV series, and that's on invitation only.

You're working up to an invitation.

Or Battlebots, and that's even more difficult to get an invitation from.

[Ellis]

"Bolt together job"

Lol.

[Olivia Grand]

Maddox 10, the invitation only situation seems an interesting one.
The statement of fighting criteria requiring invitation only seems somewhat strange!
So are you alleging the competitions are rigged in some form?
The design my team is coming up with, to neutralize the inertia spinners and shape as a weapon may not get used after all then!
I feel I will be using your statement and investigate with the various bodies concerned if this is the case.

[maddox10]

I just write that the Robot Wars TV show is on invitation only.

The only arena in Europe allowing heavyweight spinners to use the weapon is the one as build by RoboChallenge and used by Mentorn/BBC.


You apply, and the organisation BBC/Mentorn looks into the value your team/machine has for the show and will send an invitation or not.

This was so since the start of the show in the UK.

And Battlebots has a simular setup.

[TechAUmNu]

I don't even. This thread. Lol.

[Olivia Grand]

Maddox10 Thank you for your reply.
However if the selection process is not seen as being transparent and only whats best for entertainment, this in it's self is wrong.
You could end with a result whereby an inferior robot has won only because it was subject to approval for appearance.