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[swanaldo]

well i will kick off the competitors thread with my new robot called AIR. will be ready very soon. runs on a roboteq with 2 bosch on 24v, full pressure ram 140mm bore with 150 stroke fed by 3 burkerts with a 6 litre buffer. got a year to test and perfect it for series 8.

[Guest]

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got a year to test and perfect it
You will urgently need that year, but should become a monster then. How many 2kg bottles of CO2 are you planning to use?

[Guest]

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Sounds like Gravity to me!

[swanaldo]

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it is a gravity....i am duplicating it right down to the weelie you suffer from.....

[m2xt]

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Sounds good to me Shane, how are you absorbing the energy in the flipper when it reaches full travel?

Paul

[grafix]

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He isnt. He is hoping that the hit will transfer the energy into the victim. I really need to look into his eyes when he misses a target and sees the destruction that is self inflicted. I will laugh so hard that I will burst. Then buy the man a beer for the entertainment provided.

Mike.

[gravity]

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Shane, dont feel bad if people compare AIR to Gravity... And Gravity didnt suffer from wheelies.. At least, it didnt before I took of the second buffer tank, that was located in the nose of the robot. Ah hell, can tell it now anyway... I was asked to restrict the power because they were scared of both their cameras and the fact that the fights would be over too soon.
Looks like the 4th edition of Gravity wont be the most powerfull flipper ever seen on robotwarsanymore, since its ram is 140bore x 120stroke, and is only fed by 2 2litre buffers thru 2 burkert valves...
But still, power alone doesnt make a good robot
But shane, just like Paul Id like to know how you are going to stop the fliopper arm at full stroke and how you are planning to get it down again ???

Regards, William

ps, dont laugh too hard, Mike, or else your flipper arm will brake off again...

[gravity]

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Oh, and another thing Shane,on my new design Im using similar wheels like you have (yes, i copy too, ask mike ) and I dont know how to attach the rubber to it... The same way storm2 and terrorhurtz did it seems like a good idea...

[shredderteam]

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Just dont use evo-stick! Believe me I know :sad:

Sam
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William
about your wheels. i´m planning to use a mix of 55 shore polyurethane (similar, but better than vulkollan) coating with 15 % of glass splinters. A company in austria offered me this coating for for 45 euro per wheel, (excl. VAT and shipping) including special treatment of the ali hub (100 mm hub diameter, 80 mm wide and 20 mm thickness of the coating. they promised me, the glueing of the coating holds better than the yield strength of the coating

[babeth]

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Glass splinters ? Then I think you will be required to cover your wheels when not in the arena.

[Guest]

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I think Helmut is more referring to glass powder...

[Guest]

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The splinters are very tiny, (smaller than 0,5 mm). The engineer in the factory told me, this mix give the best grip on a wooden floor. in former times they used quartz- sand for this purpose, but the glass splinters give better results. i plan to cover the wheels, if necessary with a piece of wood.

[gravity]

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Ok, helmut, But Im located in Holland, so Id like to try and find a company neirby ! oh, and Il looking for only 6mm of coating.

[Guest]

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The rubber on our wheels is simply glued on with Loctite 415 (normal rubber on steel). We didnt have any problems yet.