Wiever ytoow

[kaideejee]

Wiever ytoow

Yep - put a V8 in it and make it a super-super heavyweight.

-- Kev

[fluppet]

Wiever ytoow

Meant to post this yesterday, when it was a bit more pertinent...

Id wondered about the Code Black approach too. (It was a low, bar spinner, with the bar mounted well in front of the wheels - its reach from the mount of the bar to the tip was greater than the range from the edge of Ziggo to its wheels, hence the wheels got hit before Code Black did).

Pretty effective against several designs, and with the benefit that wheel damage is cheap to repair (being of the Rex Garrod school of robot combat Id prefer to beat an opponent without trashing them). Probably works better on the metal floor of the BattleBox than the wooden RW arena floor though - a blade would just keep digging into wood, where it would skid along a metal floor. Suffers a bit against anything with tough wheels (WBC, TaN) or zero ground clearance/skirts (Hazard, for example - although T-minuss [have I got the right one?] strategy of an extension on the flipper isnt a bad idea against Typhoon either).

So Ive found one way to beat Typhoon. Ping it into the pit. Or roll against it. Two, two ways to beat Typhoon. Ping it into the pit or roll against it. Or chop its wheels off. Three, three ways to beat Typhoon. Ping it into the pit, roll against it or chop its wheels off. Or get a zero profile flipper under it. Four, four ways to beat Typhoon...

Id like to see the TaN fight too (comes down to whether Mario can get a grip early on - I doubt Typhoon would get up much speed even if inside the jaws rather than gripped by them). Id wonder whether Typhoon could do some pushing of its own, though - four wheels vs two. Always thought TaN could do with a lifting mechanism on the casters supporting the jaws, so it can actually get the wheels of its opponent off the ground.

--
Fluppet

[pcbore]

Wiever ytoow

Incidentally, nobody wins the sweet FA... I said to guess the CODE, not the message.

...You can go back to discussing relevant things now. *Runs*

[fluppet]

Wiever ytoow

I could have sworn someone had said its backwards, with a typo or something as well as giving the translation. Presumably it happens to look like that, but is in fact a more complex transformation? Are you including the meaning of the word wooty as part of the code?

Topic? Pah.

[maddox]

Wiever ytoow

Small detail.As teammember of Team Kodox I did build parts of TAN, and went with it to a lot of Live events, but in the end it is still KOS(Jeroen) who calls the shots.
So the Typhoon2/ Tough As Nails Fight isnt up to me.

And the lifting mech on the castors. It is an idea that has run trough our minds, but weight is the main problem.

[typhoon_driver]

Wiever ytoow

Kev we had enough trouble fitting our chainsaw engine in! (hacksaws were a plenty at that point). We were made a rather interesting offer early on, a 25hp jet engine from an army spycraft. We contemplated it but couldnt have fitted it in plus i dont think that the 500ml would have gone far! Wouldve sounded great though........

Mike were working on a few ideas to improve spin up time but i cant say anything at the moment.

[fluppet]

Wiever ytoow

Sorry Mario - or more specifically, sorry Jeroen! I *am* aware that Mario isnt in charge of TaN, I just tend to associate it with him because hes more vocal on the forum (in the way that I tended to associate Razer with Vinnie when hes just posted and remember about Ian and Simon later...)

Be nice to see something clever lift-wise with the pincers, though - I was thinking along the lines of Tip Tops tilting mechanism, or Cassiuss pneumatic suspension. Ill await developments with interest!

Gary - a jet engine? Youd have needed special dispensation, but it would certainly have been funny... (if you didnt need to *stay* spun up, and could spin up fast enough, might you have been okay on fuel?)

--
Fluppet

[typhoon_driver]

Wiever ytoow

maybe but it was a risk we didtn want to take and we couldnt have fitted it under the shell

[ewan]

Wiever ytoow

I wonder what happens when you turbo-charge a chainsaw engine

[kaideejee]

Wiever ytoow

I saw an emailed video earlier today - some american news programme where a load of mad people had put motorbike and car engines on chainsaws - hence the comment about the V8. There was a chainsaw powered by a V8 engine, with a blade about 1.5metres long. It took two people to lift and they did a speed comparison of a BIG log being chopped up.

A normal chainsaw took just over ten seconds. Respectable you might say, but the V8 beast took about a second. Scary.

-- Kev

[typhoon_driver]

Wiever ytoow

http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htmhttp://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm

have a look at this. Just dont try it yourself!

and heres the chainsaw one

http://www.speakeasy.org/%7erori/UltimateChainsaw.asf

[mikeyg]

Wiever ytoow

Ask the Executioner team. They ran a modified chainsaw motor for their disk. Impressive results.

[pcbore]

Wiever ytoow

Nope, no-one guessed it

[big_nipper]

Wiever ytoow

Gary, Where I work my boss got hold of an 80hp jet engine complete with gear box to a 5,000rpm output shaft. A little over the top but weighting only 20kg could be possible (execpt fuel capacity). I belive it was a 747 starter motor . Even if they let you use enough fuel the exhaust would be so hot it could be classed as a weapon and disallowed and its not classed as an IC engine which is what it states in the rules as being allowed. Its impractical but then again....

Another posssiblity that crossed my mind was a steam powered robot, know a few people who build them. Not been done yet to my knowlegde.

[anukhet]

Wiever ytoow

Perhaps Ed will dig further in his wallet for a big pool to run the steam robots?
Robot? yep
Tools? yep
Cozzy? nah - aw what the heck