im just wondering where you got those omni wheels from.

somewhere in www.mcmaster.com

They were US$20 each plus a lot of postage.
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I've finished the CAD models and I would like some feed back.

3D model
http://robowars.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=898

2D presentation drawing
http://robowars.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=899
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Daniel, you design the most stylish robots.
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

That has to be one of the coolest looking bots ive seen, would rather teh saw a kinetic disc but meh

As far as looks go its AWESOME

Only thing id change is the polycarb (eww to that stuff for side armour)
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155mm tall? thats huge lol. those wheel gaurds look likely to get caved in but aside from that it looks nifty.
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Geez Glen. Learn to take a hit. Those front grauds are easily replacable. I learn from other peoples mistakes.

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I have a cordless circular saw here and I was also playing with a mini EV. Saw motor first (it sounds cool), mini EV if I need to go to fly wheels.
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if you wanted a good show in the arena you could bolt on a grinding disk off a bench grinder, spark-tacular....... (ill shut up now lol)
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After ringing a few places looking for Weldon polycarb glue I finally found one guy who was finally some help and it seems that joining 3mm polycarb in the way I wanted to wouldn't be a strong as I had been reading about. But as I was talking to him I suddenly thought up a back up plan that may even make Sidewinder slightly more eye apealing. Unfortuanly it'll mean more bolts and more tapping. So for I've tapped 84 holes in the robot.

And as for what I have already built I have the 3 drive motors installed and all the electronic so it's been taken for a test drive. It just need a bit of bracing aross the front but that won't improve driving. The weapon motor and angle gearbox is fitted as well. All that needs to be done is a clutch between the circular saw motor and angle grinder and the armour, which is what I wanted the glue for.
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Mulfords sell Weldon. I will probably get some for Alex's Yamato.
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

Yes but they didn't want to sell any to me. Try Industrial Plastics at Morningside.
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If you go for a flywheel, make sure to include some form of friction-drive washers on the output shaft.

I.G. can tell you, angle-grinder gearboxes ('specially cheap ones) really dont like sudden shock-load stops. So far, I've chewed up about 3 of them. Teeth crunched up, and woodruff keys on the output shafts shear.

A slippy drive should fix that..
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also the casting is somewhat "brittle" ;->
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