Weapon of choice: Sportsman/Bevs FW

Bot Builds & Designs
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With the announcement that Extreme Robots are not running feathers anymore, I’ve put plans for a full combat ready W.O.C on hold, or at least on the bottom of my to-do list.

However, after getting absolutely trashed in October, here’s before and after the restoration of the old one, ready for Bevs and possibly other sportsman events.

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Currently I’m working on a new chain driven lifter setup which should hopefully lift the required weight, at a reasonable speed.

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I’ll keep this post updated as things progress :slightly_smiling_face:

Cheers,
Jon

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The lifter is now finished and working, although a couple of design changes had to be done to fit the motor into the chassis (mainly, moving the drive gear to the right rather than the centre).

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When testing it though, I found it was less a lifter, and more a flipper! Easily managing to toss over Oddball, my other feather.
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The next step is to work on improving the axe weapon, and possibly another new weapon type for the future.

Cheers!
Jon

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That’s awesome you’re getting quite a lot of beans out of a gimpson?!

Do hope to see it at BEVs again, it was great last year with the hammer.

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I’ve always been an advocate for those motors, a pity they are now discontinued but I have spares thankfully :slightly_smiling_face:

As Extreme Robots are now not doing feathers he is a Robots live and Bevs bot now, so definitely will appear again at some point ^^

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That flipper is a beast! The eyes look great. :slight_smile:

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Thanks! :grin: Looking forward to trying it out ^^

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