Whos doing what to what before the next event......

[robotwars]

Having had a bad event at worthing even though Ripper won.... the big ball valve didnt fire once !!! Grrr it has already had a complete strip down and some upgrades this week.

It got me thinking... as i have been asked to write and article for a magazine... this would be a good topic.

What do roboteers do between shows with their robots, do they touch them, or constantly work on them !!

Ripper is always being changed, it gets used once or twice a week in school playgrounds, normally demo'ing against wheelie bins, so it must be the most used robot around !!

Since Worthing the Upgrades include...

Extra 1.1kg gas bottle fitted giving a total of 3.3kg now, so should get more big flips.
More flow, better opening of the big valve... hasnt worked properly since the O2
Shifted some weight forwards
Tried to strighten the top pannels as they are like banana's thanks to thor !!


The new gas bottle will arrive tomorrow so a quick test tomorrow night and its ready for a demo im doing on Saturday !


So what went wrong for people in Portsmouth and what the plan for the future....

Eruption.... first event... how did it go?
Why did toon raider keep breaking down?
Why did Thor go home early broken?
Why did the Iron Awes not work so well?
Why did maelstrom catch fire twice?


If you can give me as much info a possible i can use it for the article???

John

[terry]

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upgrades or fixes for me before the next event include replacing wheels or moving wheel axel so ive got more
rear groung clearance, as im getting stuck too much, fixing 2 burkerts again as they are not firing properely
these are such a pain as they are always problems I must swap to a ball valve system but that will take too
much time which I dont have and also am stuck how to do it aswell. my front hardox scoop needs to be replaced
with maybe a titanium plate so I can get under other robots again but im having trouble getting grade 5 ti
my rollers need tweaking aswell or lifting a bit so i get more ground clearance. also have got to weld back on my wheely bar that thor smashed off so a little bit to do hope i get most of it done in time.
at normal work ive got to rewire a house, and wire a new house aswell :shock:

[craig_colliass]

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Designing new feet for pilgrim! Might put some lights on too
Oh and Cherub won a fight

[swanaldo]

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Worthing..........Thor ran well up until it broke a battle switch on the weapon so could only fire one way. An easy fix with a new battle switch and ready for portsmouth

Chuck.....the flipper snapped its welds from the flipper bracket to the ram and needed ally welding so couldnt be done on site.....hence we went home with no robots to fight.

Envy is in my garage waiting for a refit and drive upgrades which will be next year as i am currently building a new robot called Full Tilt. Hope to get that done for portsmouth but will be a push. I believe it will be worth the wait tho producing a very entertaining robot to please crowds.

[geeza]

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Apocalypse hasn't worked well all year so I have given up with it. A new design is under construction hope to be ready for the team champs but its going to be tough since Ive hardly done anything so far. Ditching FP for LP, going 4WD. Think a cross of Merlin, Ripper, Big Nipper and Barbaric Response - If you can!

[mightymouse]

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meggamouse might finally be running after the damage from the 02, new lathe assembled ready for siting.
Bet Mr Jonno will have me modding the battlratz and antz and ripper before I get to touch mine.
Might even have Mini mighty mouse running, if it hasn't rusted up......

Ironside, the boring box the spinners cannot break.........might be running.

[razerdave]

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Satanix only had 1 fight at worthing because it wasn't charged or cool enough for its competition fight after the tanja fight. I'll be going to germany for a full combat competition when the portsmouth events on. I only have one real repair to do, and thats find and fix the cause of this overheating problem!

Ants all worked fine though Baby Hell, Stewie, Bulletproof all ran flawlessly (Although St Jimmy is starting to suffer interferance, dan 40MHz!)

[cliveb]

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NOTHING!!!!!

Seeing as I was sacked from the Team as weapon operator at Worthing, to be replaced by Will Thomas or Mike Lambert, and probably Trevor Wright at Portsmouth, Let them do the repairs

Mr Angry

[Danjr1]

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practicing the black art that is Lipo battery charging! lol

[Scorpionbuilder]

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Scorpion, after a fantastic event for her at Worthing, has been put in the workshop and left to the shed fairies

By Portsmouth they should have completely rewired it, reconfigured all battery packs to a new shape, installed extra wheels for drive stability and rejigged her front points so they are sprung loaded to the floor.

While they're busy I will advising Sean with the bodywork of Fortis (his new machine).

So not alot to do really

[cliveb]

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Team Toon Update

Alex has had a word with the Commander in Chief, and it would now appear that I might be given a second chance in a whiteboard at Portsmouth.

Toon Raider had an intermittent wiring fault at Worthing, so I shall be working my way through the wiring loom trying to find a broken Anderson or section of cable, replacing with new ones as I go.The repaired gearbox seemed to hold up ok so hopefully I can give it a good test out at when I have sorted the wiring.
Hopefully we will be putting in a Victor Regulator to try and get a bit more pressure to give the flipper that little bit more oomph.Finally i might give the paint job a touch up as Ripper scratched it and left a green smear down 1 side.

Clive

[Ianshock]

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Well...after Worthing, Maelstrom needs some work. So I have been advised by Team Principal to focus my efforts on the following upgrades.

1. New flipper lever arms. The imense power of the 600g buffer upgrade (!) has resulted in the end of the flipper arms to push thru the 20mm steel tubes. Never had these fail before....but the old girl had 3 OOTA at Worthing so not bad

2. 2 x motor fires. Well we thought chaffing (you know how i suffer) but 2 direct shorts on both motors in 2 fights does seem a coincidence. These 400w mobility motors only done 1 event...so maybe the bog std wiring aint up to the job. Will replace the 2nd brush housing wiring before having to rethink (and avoid refitting the old knackd littons)

3. Re tab 2 x battery packs with deans straps. Due to 2) above we blew 2 battery backs - tabs came undo - the amazing Wotty survived both attacks. If 2) above is due to motors drawing too much current we'll have 3 evacuations of the arena in 3 fights ! Might try and get a clamp meter to see what these beasts (!) are drawing.

4. Try out a co2 bottle lever modification to a screw top type design. Team Principal will post the result...probably already done but thought of a simple solution to save swapping the tap fitting. Doenst modify the valve in anyway so maintains saftey etc.

5. Team Principal has had 1.3m x 1.0m sheet of 4mm hardox delivered. 45kg but couldnt get any 3.2mm for love nor money.
Assuming 'Mummy' of Team Principal allows me 'robot play time' (BTW 1 robot minute = 30 earth minutes) then I might have started the gearboxes for the bosch 400s for the new Team Shock h/w.

6. Off to the US for work week after next...dont bother asking shopping basket already full from robot marketplace. Can resist a little robot $ spend !

Anyway TGIF. Cheers Ian

PS appreciate any HEAVWIEGHT teams responding to A123 post and can just recommend which Chinese supplier to go for !

[robotwars]

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Ripper has now finished it's upgrades ready for the demo tomorrow, think it's finally going to blow itself apart !

Ian, might be interested in some a123's if your getting some and I need to save some weight before the next uk champs and will need nicads for my new heavy I'm about to start !! Keep me posted as I might tap onto your order and we can maybe get a discount.

Malice boys have some I think !

[jonny]

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i might be interested in tagging onto the order too

[mattsdragons]

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i might be interested in tagging onto the order too

same here