March 15, 2001

Peterborough Meet

Well the Peterborough meet went down a storm :)

I wont rave about it here as I will do that in the Peterborough Meet Page. So what's happening to us then here in Rainy Peterborough? It seems only five minutes when we were driving back from last years auditions and I said "Well guys it should only take us 2 months to do all the modifications for series 5" 7 months later we are still hard at it! God why does everything to do with our bloody robot take so long? I wounder if NASA has these problems! On a lighter note I think this time last year Ian was busy making the steel chassis that is now gathering rust somewhere in my garage! So we are still well ahead of schedule and hopefully will make the Debenham event at Easter.

The Carbon and Aluminium Bosch motors are finished after 52 hours of work, and look so nice I don't want to use them but mount them on wooden stands :) The Carbon gearboxes the motors will sit in are also finished and are a testament to Ian's hard work and perfectionism on cold nights in his garage ( At his wife's sufferance ) The chassis is finished at last and so are the new ally wheels complete with rally ice tires. We are still waiting for the blades to be made from EN36 on the mill and CNC lathe, but I am assured next week we will have them in our hands. The new large ram has been lightened down to 8.5 kilos and will have to do at that weight. The blades are being made from 12mm EN36 and not 15mm. We feel with the reinforcing 12mm will be enough. Another big change again is the body shell. This is now the new configuration for the body shell. 2 layers of Carbon Twill weave on the outside 5.5mm of Dyneema 1 sheet of Titanium 1mm then reinforcing on the sides and the top which can be anything we want to slot into the 10mm recesses.

We will be attending the Debenham event in Easter and will be running and fighting. So if you haven't seen our weapon in action then you better stand by for a shock!

Mark...

Posted by Mark at March 15, 2001 8:41 AM

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