Another New Antweight..

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

There's just something about it that other spinners don't have. I think its a stability thing (strangely). I think its the only spinner I'm scared of.

[Rapidrory]

Well on a somewhat related note, albeit not antweight, I spent the day building Bad Idea's bigger brother 'First Left' (the design is similar to that of 'Last Rights')



This is a beetleweight I've been working on over the last few weeks ahead of the upcoming UK championship; it terrifys me, let alone anyone else :L

[haz]

Rites.

Anyway. So that's where lynx's stuff went eh. Sweet. What's the thickness of the hdpe frame and how you getting on with the mill?

[Rapidrory]

Yup, picked it up off Sam 2 weeks ago and ran it in the original chassis at Stevenage; it threw itself against a wall so hard it bent the chassis (but was ripping big curls of steel out of the arena wall before hand), so I've gutted it and fitting the parts in something which is hopefully more solid. It's all 8mm HDPE, and it seems tough enough for the job.

The mill's working great; It cleaned up very nicely and I'm trying to collect/ make tools and clamps for it atm. I'm slowly getting the hang of using it (Youtube tutorials are a blessing :L ), but it's still weird having parts which are properly machined rather than hacked together with hand tools :L

[terminaldamage]

When I saw First Left on the list of entries I didn't really get the name, but now it makes total sense

Are you still using the brushless from Lynx? Just wondering as the chassis looks a little short height-wise for it.

[Rapidrory]

Yup, same 1 horsepower brushless :L It's just gonna mount to that milled out section and stick out the top a mile! Just have to hope it doesn't end up upside-down :L

[Rapidrory]

Last weekend I decided to have a crack at rebuilding Skutter to be more competitive and more reliable. After a week of mostly waiting for parts to arrive, I finally got it all together today, only to find that it was 15g overweight! After much drilling and cutting I've got it down to 228g, but will attempt to shave off the last 3 before the AWS. Here's where I've got to now:



It's certainly more competitive; still got a good flip, but doesn't get stuck on it's back. The walking mechanism's not quite as fast but still keeps a good speed.
As for more reliable, sadly not so far. The walking mechanism currently jams up just as regularly as the old one, and now the gearbox for the flipper also jams up periodically. If I can improve the reliability and get it in weight it should be quite good though.

This will be taking Slice's place in the AWS.. Makes me slightly sad as just got Slice working well, however I felt I should stop pushing the cluster rule with Scrat and actually do something to earn that 4th spot :L

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

I approve of this.

[Rapidrory]

Thought you might :L

Had a few quick test fights against 'You should probably just leave', and whilst the flip was very effective, I found the walking to be painfully slow in combat. I'm going to try make some bigger cams and see if that helps. If not I'll see if I can replicate the old walking mechanism, as that relied on leverage to get a longer and smoother gait, however it is quite tall so may mess with the self righting.

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

At least you have a back up plan