July 9, 2000

Re-design :(

Ahh well what a weekend. The stresses of a robot bulilders life huh!

It has been decided due to our weight problem that we are scrapping the cutter forks and ram straps on the front of Executioner :( These will be replaced with high grade 7075 alloy which is being plasma cut for us this week :)

This will give us back the 5 kilos we need for the armour. As it was on friday we were thinking of turning out in nothing at all for armour ha ha ha! It also was bandied around at the same meeting that we should all give up and just go for series 5 :( My god this realy wound me up after 7 months of work to give up at this stage is just not cricket.

So anyway we had lots of chat and realy pulled our design to pieces
(in more ways than one) and after all our brainstorming sessions so far have come up with better and lighter! It was no surprise that this one was the same. So that was good and we are all happy again although my bank balance will be all the lighter.

We have been out and about driving the beast though so that was good. The Vantec is very nice indeed and it appears Ian did get the theory right on the gearboxes as we clocked the little machine doing 13 mph which is just about right. I have just looked at Martins last diary entry and have clocked his fabled jaw :( Gods teeth is all I can say and I am glad we have a good driver as I think between us and them its down to who cuts first wins. Still I do think our blade for them will perchance make them lose a tad of sleep of an evening he he we will have to see. I once again have a stack of piccys to update and will do it this week time permitting.

Mark...

Posted by Mark at July 9, 2000 3:55 PM

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