This is my first bot and I'm not part of a team yet.

I built most of the frame and mounted on the aluminium ramming blades. the frame is made of two steel legs of a table. The back bit was veeeery bendy, so I got my brother to screw a part of another leg on it for strength. All together it weighs 980 grams. I drilled the holes for the blades and screwwed it on. My dad cut it and I curved, filed and sharpened it.

Sorry, I don't have any pics yet. Don't know how to transfer pics from my dad's mobile phone to the computer. And all the other cameras are out of batteries
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Last edited by Damien (not Damian) on Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:42 am; edited 6 times in total

You just make up your own team name, and hope that people join in to help you out..

Some more information you could include is
What state/area/suburb are you from ?
What class are you intending to compete in,
what style of Robot are you making ? Wedge, Rammer, Spinner etc.
4Wd ? Invertible, Armour, Control System, Batteries, Radio

You dont have to supply all of that of course, just suggestions
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I thought I could maybe call it "Team Stingray" because this is my first robot.
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Where abouts are you Damien? Nice work for starting, you leap up a huge amount in respect once you actualy have a robot on this forum Nice work!
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This Saturday I'm gonna get the drive system parts (I think)
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Last edited by Damien (not Damian) on Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:46 am; edited 1 time in total

Oh, and answering your question, I live in Melbourne.
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Will modified drill motors work that good in a featherweight rammer?
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Yep, drills work fine.
http://rankings.robowars.org/Cobra.htm
http://rankings.robowars.org/Bob.htm
http://rankings.robowars.org/Singularity.htm Used to have cheap drills
http://rankings.robowars.org/Hell%20Razor.htm
http://rankings.robowars.org/Cheeze%20Shredder.htm
http://rankings.robowars.org/Road%20Kill.htm
http://rankings.robowars.org/KO.htm take a close look at this one
http://rankings.robowars.org/Speed%20Hump.htm
http://rankings.robowars.org/SSR.htm

Damien, do you realise that we have a comp on this weekend (Sat)??? You are most welcome to come and have a look, get some ideas etc. It's in Grantville (on the way to philip island), more info in the grantville thread under state specific. We're always happy to help out with advise etc. and it's so much easier to show people rather than try to explain to people.

Yeah, I already know about it, thanks anyway.
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Can I find any good aluminium in Bunnings? If so, how much does it cost and can I custom-cut sheets?
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Last edited by Damien (not Damian) on Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:12 am; edited 1 time in total

You can buy aluminium at Bunnings. It tends to be soft and easily damaged in combat. You would probably have more success in getting a harder grade of aluminium from a specialist supplier.

You will need to know what you intend to do with your aluminium. Do you intend to bend or weld it? This will have a bearing on the grades that are available to chose.

Good luck.
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Try asking useful questions..

"Good" Aluminium - Good for what ? (If you say use in a bot, I'll slap you)

Aluminium can be used structurally for frames, for armour, for bracketry or lots of other things. What type of aluminium is best depends on what you want to do with it.

Do you want hardness, machinability, corrosion resistance, tensile strength, temper ?

Learn about the different grades of aluminium here.
http://www.matweb.com/index.asp?ckck=1

Sizes, Availability, Price, Custom Cutting questions should be directed to your Bunnings Store. You see anyone around here wearing a Bunnings name-tag ?

"good" and "best" are meaningless terms. It all depends on the application.

When building a bot, 25mm thick steel plated with 10mm of titanium is the "best" armour.. Of course you wont be able to afford it, or have any weight left over for the rest of the bot.

What is best for you, will depend on budget, bot size, how careful you have been keeping the weight of the whole machine down, the structure of the frame and about a million other factors.

Generally, if people ignore your question, its because you have asked a stupid question that cant be answered easily, or one that you really should be finding out yourself by ringing Bunnings or using google.

People here are helpful, once you learn to ask intelligent questions.

:edit: Philip beat me to it He was probably a bit nicer about it..
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Originally posted by Spockie-Tech:

When building a bot, 25mm thick steel plated with 10mm of titanium is the "best" armour.. Of course you wont be able to afford it, or have any weight left over for the rest of the bot.

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