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[jamesb]

well, everyone seems to have an opinion about the big yellow fellow, and Im inviting people to advise me on how to improve the flippin thing.

This comes from having put edgehogs axe through the ram, writing it off, destroying the valves in the same fight, and my having a morbid desire to see what crazy things you guys think about old cheesy.

[kodster]

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Well the flip on Axe Awe was pretty awesome.

[jamesb]

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ok. so its perfect and nobody would change anything?

ill remember that next time i get told how rubbish it is

[lex]

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Shorter nose, wheelguards, bottlejack/ Mario style ram...

[botmad]

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james i have one suggestion not and improvement .. more an issue of safe arming .. open the flipper to turn on the bottles but this only flows to a valve like a dump valve in the top next to the link .. this will turn the flow on to the system and you will be away from the flipper only a thought :P

[jamesb]

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does that already pete.
opening the bottles allows the liquid into the system, but this forces the valves shut. you then need to turn the master valve (by the link) to on to allow flow to the actuator/pilot valves. switching yet another valve to on now means flow can access the valves in the main system, and the weapon can fire if the servos turn the pilots.

In short, arming involves turning on the bottles, system cannot fire, then turning on the master valve, system cannot fire, then turning on the pilot valve, system cannot fire, then switching on the reciever, which now means there is a method of operating the pilots to fire the weapon. its very safe. I am changing this system now though, so will keep remotely failsafed arming in mind when i build it.

thanks john, ill keep those ideas in mind.

[beast]

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Mario style ram...???

thought it was Graverty style
but mario does improve sytems

[kodster]

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WBC, Hydra & Gravity vs. the house robots

[Mouldy]

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What happened to Hydra? Good robot.

[maddox]

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John, I did build the weapon system in Gravity on WJs request.

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[gravity]

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Kody, then there would be no use for Hydra and WBC

John, it might be a Gravity style ram, but the ram and the buffertanks were built by Mario. I just threw all the parts in the robot and connected stuff

[kodster]

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I wouldve loved to see a house robot go out of the arena.

So WBC 2 is in the making, James?

[jamesb]

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it is. time for me to stop moaning about how i would have done things different, and actually show how i would have done it.

its looking good so far

[kodster]

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Cant wait.

WJ your rival is gathering strength again.

[jamesb]

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no offense to wj, but he will have a job to build something more powerful... not impossible, but very hard.

but then if anyone is mad enough, he is