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Nick
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You could always adjust the pulley ratios so that the wheels are all driving at the same rate.
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Or move the wheels a bit closer, and put intermediate friction drive idler wheels between them. Less work than belts, and about the same weight when you take additional pulleys into account.
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Friction drives would also get the wheel speeds all the right ratio, as it transfers the surface speed of the wheel, not the angular velocity of the axle.

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I like the idea and I have the weight to spare will see how I go,

WhizzBee is now painted, has a pointy arrow and self righting bar.
apart from any more little mods she is done Cool now going to concentrate on spares and packing.




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Looks epic, very keen to see it rip stuff up in the arena!
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if you need pulleys I may be able to express you some tomorrow if you can tell me what you need?
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Genius...cant wait to see it spin up. Very Happy
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Thanks guys! hopefully it lasts more than its first round Razz

I am going to pick up some ally round bar today so all good on the pulleys thank you very much for the offer tho.
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This is excellent work. How did it go?
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epic damage but a one hit wonder glass cannon lol did well for a first attempt at a full body spinner but now the guts are going to get an overhaul
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it did pretty well against an uber spinner of doom, just buff it out right?
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How did your weapon motor hold up? It looks like you don't have a support bearing on the opposite side of the chassis, did you have any issues pre-loading the shell onto the friction wheel?

I've only seen one fight video of it but it looks to have some nice potential.
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Nice work dude Smile
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Righto so last year at nats Whizzbee did well.

the shell get bent in where the tooth was from the force (no photo sorry)
the aluminium floorplate turned into a bannana making everything rub together.
and zipties holding escs together just does not work(trashed some wiring and tz85's Sad ),

but on the upside did cause some carnage!

so far I have replaced some aluminium supports with steel and am trying to get rid of the floorplate altogether (taking advice from rotwang at nats)

Welded on a biz80 ring (holes drilled for speed and weight Razz) hopefully the side will not dent in from the teeth anymore.






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'If in doubt, add more steel' - Whizzbee should be much tougher at the next event.
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