New Featherweights

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The treads in the HDPE will fail soon. It's just to soft and flexible.

We solve that by welding it.
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how do u weld it leo oxy acetoline troch thing or however u spell it?
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Post by Simon Windisch »

Well everything fails eventually with robots?

How do you weld plastic?

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Post by leo-rcc »

Fot an explenation:

http://www.wegenerwelding.de/english/pr ... tair.shtml

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today the featherweight armor arrived!
going to mount the motors soonish and then order the batteries and the tx and speedos
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Post by Marco Roberts »

Ha good ole leo and mario to back me up. Yeah its soft and the taps will bore out.
I use self tapping screws which work well. But as I said, I find it hard to do anything too acurate it usually bends out of shape.
But apart from that lil issue I love the stuff.
Hence me building a heavy out of it.
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Post by teamocean »

I thought I mentioned this earlier- obviously not

The only reason that it is tapped together at the moment is because it it my D.T project for school and I need it to be finished by next week.

It will not be fighting until it has been marked and after that it will be welded together to increase the strength- the taps are only a temporary way of holding it together.

The side panels are held in place with some polycarb blocks mounted inside which the panels screw into.

Also to stop the chassis flexing it is being supported with several titanium plates.

I am currently uploading some pics of the finished chassis onto my photobucket account which can be found here- http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc27 ... 0Wave%202/

I will certainly be glad to get this one finished and submitted so that I can get Whirlpool and Shockwave upgraded for the UK championships.
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Progress report

Tidal Wave 2 is almost finished, I had a few hours fitting all of the parts today. Drive is in and so is most of the pneumatics- a bit of wiring and plumbing left to do before it is submitted on friday but that won't take too long.

Then all I have to do is get the logo laser cut for the flipper and fit the light up rear spikes.

I will upload loads of pictures this weekend.
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Post by Team Orr »

sounds good to me
looking forward to seeing all the pics
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Post by Flippt »

I'm mostly into antweights, but lately I've been designing my own Featherweight, which is an uppgrade of my prevoius attempt. But for now all I got is a CAD, which look pretty much the same when finished.

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Some spec:
Name: Accident.
Status: Under construction.
Weight: ~9-10Kg according to CAD
Drive: 2 x 12V drill motors, Sabertooth Dual 10A.
Power: 12-14.4V NiMH 3800mAh Sub C cells (http://stores.ebay.co.uk/All-Battery-Center)
Chassi/Armour: The entire bot will be made with HDPE with some Lexan trims.
Weapon: 180mm Hardox 650 disc
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