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[Mouldy]

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Im tempted, Have parts, have technology, have no time and there isnt an arena to contain it.

[kodster]

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Speaking of cheese, have there been any modifications to Hard Cheese?

[jamesb]

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hard cheese? no idea who that is.

wheely big cheese (as seen on tv) has been redesigned inside and is being rebuilt now. the mods are not huge but should make it more usable, but no less impressive.

dave, it would be cool to see just what you would come up with, and bearing in mind there will be 3 heavyweight arenas by april, one (4m high) then i think you should go for it.

[geeza]

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James if you planned to hold as many event every year that Jonno does then it would be worth considering. But the investment in time as much as money wouldnt be worth it.

What we had in mind would be better than Kronic an a heavy will hit the roof in the RR arena when fired by Kronic so its a bit dangerous to get even more powerful.

[kodster]

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Watch the RW Extreme Middleweight fight, and then youll know, James. I believe Typhoon was in that fight.

Ed, I think that when James said that WBC was going to get more powerful and toss opponents farther, he was talking about more length, not height; otherwise, that would be more overkill then there already is. As you said, its dangerous.

[leorcc]

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Hard Cheese was not one of Roger Plants robots afaik.

[grant_ploughbot]

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Its not just the fact that robots will hit the roof - its the other bits that are likley to hit the roof and go through. Small peice of armour, or a bolt fired at the end of a good flipper will go straight through even a so called reasonable roof.
After Dave has seen the testing of objects hitting materials at speeds easily acheivable from a flipper its not worth risking at the moment.

[Mouldy]

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James- Me and Ed started the CAD work at home, got the materials for the ram, buffer and valves and worked the designs over with some pneumatic fellas. Im woried that at the moment if it was built that i could be seriously responsible for an injury should a heavyweight get fliped over the polycarbonate walls (very possible) I think me and Ed will come to a conclusion wether or not to build Turbulence mk2 after seing the new arenas in the flesh.

If you are willing to show me your pneumatic setup i would be quite interested. Are you keeping the asthetics of the machine the same?

[jamesb]

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the robot looks identical.
a teaser of the specs are on a vapour thread on the fra forum, but the actual design is under my hat, where it will stay, even when the robot is out there. techchecks withstanding, its on a need to know basis.
but at full power it will not be runable in any arena currently built or being built in the uk. thank god this one can be turned down

[blazerbotics]

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sounds good james. our arena will be 3M high from arena floor to roof, if robots are able to throw any higher than that you will start to have major problems with the floor structure being able to cope with the impact of a 100kg lump being dropped from that height.

[jamesb]

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i imagine even 3m is too high to drop a robot from. i doubt arena floors could take it reliably, unless of course you have a floor specifically designed for big drops?

wbc2 is not designed for existing arenas, i have other plans.

[kodster]

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WBC 2 is not designed for existing arenas, I have other plans

To be the worlds biggest catapult?

[gravity]

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James, why would I want to build something more powerfull ? Good thing about Gravity was always its movability and reliability were much more important. Gravity 5 (yes still underway) will probably feature the same ram and gearboxes and motors as Gravity 3. Im just going to try and make it a little smaller and less likely to do a wheely Oh right, and to withstand 3 metre drops and katapult launches

[gravity]

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so, when is this finished

[kodster]

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In other words...

-2>...bump.

(Message edited by kodster on October 22, 2007)