August 25, 2001

The Auditions

We fought and I thought we fought well :) Yet again we learnt that there are many things to still change in the design to make it catch up with 4 years of RW!!!! Although we just about have it there :)

So what am I talking about? Well on Sunday we went to London to attend our series 5 audition. All I can say is that we turned up everything worked and the machine is even starting to look like I want it to look to. So up for the fight then or not as the case may be as they decided to put us into a melee with 3 other bots oooerrr missus.

Into the arena we go 3 2 1 carnage there were bits flying everywhere and mostly from us to! The guys standing next to us had a flipper and all I could here was the dad saying to the son "go on son flip him" and it was always me at the front of his machine :) and all I was saying was go on Ian cut him cut him cut him :) oh its makes you so aggresive this robot thing! Sadly for us the weapon packed in after we had a head on with shunt. The reason for this is that the pressure transducer on the hydraulic pump is mounted on an angled pipe connector and although I had nipped it up tight it does weigh a kilo and the inertia of a head on made it unscrew, suffice to say all Ians pumping was doing was filling the inside of the bot with hydraulic oil yuk :( hmmm think we need a bracket to hold that in place then, ahh all this learning is doing my head in. Still the bot is very tuff and we took no major damage at all apart from the burning tyre after being left on the flame pit for an age (cheers dead metal) Everything worked reliably and the control was excellent although I was unhappy about my lack of grip due to all the oil on the wooden floor, so I think some spiked tyres will be in order there at least for UK battles anyway.

So that's it we don't know if we are in series 5 or not although we are in Wildcard Warrior as a Newcomer v Veteran so at least we get a TV appearance which suits me fine. We also have some major mods to do for winter again although that will be secret untill we role out the beast again.

Mark...

Posted by Mark at August 25, 2001 9:01 AM

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