And Philps new bot is gunna have more power than that! Dam!
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Next we'll have Philip flipping Mini Cooper's in the car park
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That Poor old vacuum cleaner

looks pretty good apart from the self flippage

Just out of interest, when you have it upside down to turn the gas on, what's stopping it from being able to fire and throw itself at you if the firing solenoid was faulty, etc?
Also, are you worried about the possibility of hoses blowing, gauge, blowing the face off, or the buffer tank exploding in your face if it has any invisible damage and fails when pressurised?

Just wondering since there's been much talk about pneumatic safety, and in my opinion the way things are operated and set up makes as much difference as the hardware itself.
Put it this way: I'd be worried about losing eyes if anything failed.
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I think they had it so if the ram fired the arm was away from it, if it did fire.
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Originally posted by DumHed:
Just out of interest, when you have it upside down to turn the gas on, what's stopping it from being able to fire and throw itself at you if the firing solenoid was faulty, etc?
Also, are you worried about the possibility of hoses blowing, gauge, blowing the face off, or the buffer tank exploding in your face if it has any invisible damage and fails when pressurised?

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Marauder has run longer then any another pneumatic flipper in Australia, not a single failure or issue that has brough danger to any of those around it. I don't want to seem ignorant, but I trust this bot more then I trust most other peoples bots, simply because I have been in the pits and the arena with it for so long, I know the safety on this machine is the highest priority.

Now stop starting arguments for the sake of arguing..
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I'm not starting arguments, just clarifying some things based on what it looks like on the video since there has been so much safety talk lately.

I thought it looked like the flipper arm could still be pushed by the ram, which would launch the whole bot at whoever is working on it.
Looking at it again, it's up, but not as far as I expected - which is just due to the ram's short throw.
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yeah damn kerrisons, that looks bad ass, nice work. I hope never to face it in the arena

@aaron-whats with the soap box boy, is it wrong to ask questions now these days is it? Now hurry up and make a robot.
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Originally posted by dyrodium:
LOL Looks like it tore it open from the flipper force itself! Nice work.
Heh did you get a lot of curious/worried faces from those people walking and riding past?

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space junk for sure!
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Devastating. You put quality drives in there and a good driver and Devastator will be hard to beat.
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

I'll be interested to see how the 12-45 bane bots esc's you got perform, due to their tiny size and decent price. Are you sure 12A cont would be enough? I know it's not a pushy bot.. but it's unavoidable sometimes.
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How is Devastator going? Is it close to driving now? How much ground clearance are you going to have? Are you using a wheel, ball transfer unit or skid plate under the front?
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems