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[alex_holt]

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Maybe....the flipper and axe are antweight proportions - the tianium is a single bar and there isnt much of anythign else....

[mrdaves]

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First time I have heard the use of grade 3 titanium. I thought it only came in grade 2 or grade 5, whatever the difference is.

[knightrous]

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http://www.alleghenyludlum.com/ludlum/pages/products/xq/asp/M.1/qx/product.asp?P=117http://www.alleghenyludlum.com/ludlu.../product.asp?P =117

http://asm.matweb.com/search/SpecificMaterial.asp?bassnum=MTU030http://asm.matweb.com/search/Specifi...bassnum=MTU030

There are plenty of Titanium grades, just various grades have different properties, which may or may not be suited to the sport of Robot Combat.


4x LEM130s on 48v
16mm Titanium
An axe and a flipper


A drive consisting of 4 LEM130 motors would weigh at least 35kg including batteries, gearing, motors and mounts... A FP CO2 flipper setup would be at least 20kg.... I dont like your chances Tim.

[dogbot4000]

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Oh yeah the Flipper and the axe work on the same co2 bottle.

[swiss_tony]

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That dosent matter: Its already overweight WITHOUT the weapons, itll be MASSIVLEY overweight with them.

[mrdaves]

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*Dave enters the room wearing a thick coat and holding a bottle of the finest vodka in the land*

Evening everybody, sorry I€™m late, I had to go via Iceland for this bottle of Christmas vodka, but here is the first melee in the random thread fan fiction€¦

Sengazanken vs. Mass Disctruction Revolution vs. Vertindicular vs. Walsall2-1Merthyr Tydfil

Entering the arena first, it is Sengazanken, full name is €œSengazanken [Cookie for anyone who knows where the name comes from]€, and it comes to us from the wonderful land of America, where they make the Left Handed Big Mac, this invertible four wheel drive machine, powered by what seems to have become the standard motor for vapourbots across the world. It has a part of lovely vertical spinners at the front, powered by the same motor for maximum destruction, but it has a handicap with the hinged wedge blocking the discs from doing their job, but will Tony€™s machine be heading back to America as a champion or a chumpion?

Entering the arena behind Sengazanken is Mass Disctruction Revolution, a robot from the sunny state of the British Commonwealth, Australia. MDR which I shall call from now on to save on words, is a floor spinner, spinning on the spot, keeping the moving parts low, and hang on, Aaron has changed MDR from floor spinner to standard ring spinner, powered by an evil mastermind who wants to take over the world. Whoops, I have been reading the script for Andy instead of Aaron .

Following the ring spinner of MDR, comes in Vertindicular, it has a vertical disc held in a flooding cage which swings on it€™s axle, so it can keep working on it€™s back. Andy wants to take over the world, by using his cheesy puns and multi-purpose piece of wood. Vertindicular itself is standard in drive chain, 4 wheels, front wedge, and simple but efficient.

Finally entering the arena is Walsall2-1Merthyr Tydfil. This object has a flipper and an axe, powered by a range of motors and co2, however the arena looks like it is about to break under the 100kg mass of Walsall, so I believe it is time to go.

All three robots are locked in the arena, with some nice cheese pie standing by the exit into the pit of doom and destruction, so:

3
2
1
Activate

Walsall is away, using the power of its drive to try to slam into MDR, but Vertindicular is also onto it€™s back, and slams into the rear end with the vertical spinner, as MDR comes spinning out, and crashes into the poorly welded body shell, and rips the titanium panelling off without any trouble whatsoever. The hit from Vertindicular€™s disc onto the rear end of Walsall has knocked the machine out, with all the weight going onto its drive, weapons and armour, Tim had to use Key Stage 1 electronics, which had an overload and melted. MDR slams into Walsall again, and pieces of poorly built machine go all over the place, as Sengazanken comes out of the box, heading towards Vertindicular, but Andy and Aaron are ganging up on poor little Tony€™s machine, and spear it.

Sengazanken has been attacked from both sides, and looks a mess, the side armour bent and ripped off, but it is still working, okay, it is moving slowly, with the chassis bent in onto itself, as MDR hits Sengazanken again, and this time the damage is serious, as pieces of Sengazanken are spread across the arena floor, as Vertindicular slams into the main chassis bulk of Sengazanken and flips it over into the full spinning ring of fire.

CEASE

Both Walsall and Sengazanken have been destroyed and exit the arena in bin bags, both were treated to the spinner feast of MDR and Vertindicular and both paid the price of having crap inner structures. Andy and Aaron go forward to the final.

Melee 2
Wolf vs. Dues Ex Machina vs. Dennis The Menace vs. Axe-o-Lotl

Tactics, Predictions, Other?

[siphai]

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...remind me why you are writing fights again?

[dogbot4000]

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Quit while youve got nothing to lose lad.

[mrdaves]

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Tim, your robot was so crap and overweight I was considering not allowing it into the fight due to it being at least 150kg with all that drive, weapon and armour.

And Alex, shut-up for a change.

[dinowarrior]

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Plus you never stated what the axe (pointed, bladed) and flipper (front hindged, rear hindged) were.

[siphai]

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Shut up... for a change? For a change would say that I never stop talking or posting. Of course, I dont talk all that much, and I dont post all that much; this, in itself, would destroy your pitiful attempt at me telling you that you need to stop writing results.

They are crap. They really are! This was the smallest result I have ever read on FRA, and is smaller than many, many results over at ARC! Your freaking introduction was longer!

This wouldnt be a problem if your result had a lot of content, but it didnt. Sure, Tims robot would easily get cut off towards the beginning, but after that? It is obvious that you are biased against Tonys many designs. Sen is easily a design that would probably have won the match. It has 8mm titanium armor, so I doubt that it would have its sides ripped off from one hit; even from MDU.

Also how does the wedge block the discs from doing their job? The whole idea of the wedge is so that wedges go UP it and into the discs. This way the discs wont scrape against the wedges, as the would do if there was no front wedge. And by the way, Tony never listed the inner structure of his robot in his stats. How do you percieve it as crap then?

Listen, your writing is full of holes and it IS time you gave up on it. You said Spanish Inquisition would be your last; hell, you said that AI 3 was going to be your last. You said you had too much course work, and yet somehow you have managed to find time! Dave, if you want to leave then LEAVE! Dont just hang around the entrance, trying to be funny by always coming and going.

You obviously arent putting effort into your results, you are annoying many other members; not only I. Just leave Dave. Just leave.

(Message edited by Siphai on December 24, 2005)

[martyn]

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Why do you lot need to fight it is christmas eve (in most places)it is ment to be the time of good will. So please can we have some peace and quiet for once without you lot kicking off into fights!

[siphai]

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Christmas Eve isnt the time of good will... thats Christmas itself. And we still have another 57 or so minutes until then. =D

[knightrous]

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Well featherweights with 4mm titanium armour get panels torn off, so I dont see why MDR cant rip apart 8mm titanium panels considering MDR is generating about 20 times more energy then your average magmotor powered featherweight spinner

Take a chill pill Alex, relax and just let the shat slide.... We all doo

[matty_haka]

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Im with Alex, and my robt wasnt even involved. If a robot is an overly poor design, then you should give some notice as opposed to shoving it into a fight and then writing it down instantaneously.

But then Dave wouldnt know common decency and sportsmanship if it bit him on his enormously oversized backside.

And if anyone mentions Christmas, screw it. Christmas sucks so dont tyr and use it as an excuse for me to be all merry.

Granted Im not exactly in th emost sober of states right now, but I shall stand by my words in the morning.