killercarrot

I've had a look at what's left of our various fighting robots. In the featherweight class there are only two real possible salvage options. First up is Meathammer, a steel frame 4 wheel drive, 4 motor push bot. It broke a couple of gearboxes at Burgess Hill fight, probably in 2007? The tricky bit is working out where I left off with the repairs, and where the parts might be. So at lunchtime I took the frame outside to saw off the problematic gear cages. I put the batteries on the old supernova, and they seem to be hold charge, the speed controllers and wiring seem to be ok, and the armour is fine. The other option is the axe robot, which has never really been finished. It had its first outing at the Norwich Eureka event in 2003? as an electric axe, but since then has been converted to gas, electric and back to gas again.... I'll try and dig out the Killercarrot chassis when it stops raining.

well it's taken a long time.. but I've finally got round to fixing things. I dallied briefly with the old heavyweight carrot, and ran it in the FRA championship, and remembered why I enjoyed playing with feathers so much. They are small and easy to carry, don't hurt your back or your wallet so much. So my big problem was getting the time to visit Plumpton, my old college to machine up some new bushes.. so I asked the FRA forum, and Trev Wright came up trumps, and has machined me some lovely little bushes. In the mean time, I've looked at the power problem and procured some slightly meatier batteries Sayno RC2400, 24v... and squeezed a set of curtis 70 amp controllers into the frame.. which to be honest is a lot less messy than the old electronise with all the relay cabling. So I have to fit the bushes now and reassemble the drive trains, and then go for a bit of a test.