SUBLIME3

Well good news and bad news. The good news is the frame and armor has been welded, the bad news is that while test driving the robot I ran it into a wall at full speed (a MUST when testing a robot) I shatered two of the smaller #25 roller chain sprockets! I have ordered some 20 pitch spur gears to redo the gear reduction with.

In this report I welded the frame and armor together. Here is a snap of all the guts removed prior to welding. the frame was then tacked together.

The amps on the Tig welder where then cranked up to 100 and the welding began.

Here is one more shot of the welding. After the frame was done I let it cool then took it back to my work table and prepared to put the guts back in.

I then put all the parts back in, lookin good! to bad those gear boxes had to tear themselves apart... Next I selected the lifter arm material, a length of 1/4" thick steel "U" channel.

I laid the arm material out to see how it looks, and if it would fit in the robot, it did. In this shot you can also see the back of the robot, that is what I will be running into the spinnerrobots with since the back is solid 1/4" 2024. Here is another shot.

The next thing I needed to do was to built a mount for my actuator to pivot on. I clamped a chunk of alluminum in the mill and went to work. Here is the finished peice, I even squared the whole thing to make it look cool, as well as keep the actuator level.

Here it is with the actuator on it for a test fit. I then laid it on the base to see what it looked like.

I had to mount the T shaped mount to the base some how so I drilled holes in the base to provide clearance for bolts to go into the actuator mount. then I drilled and taped the actuator mount to except the bolts

I then bolted down the actuator mount, mounted the actuator, then put the arm on in a test position. Here is another view. Well that is all for this report, I will rebuild the gear boxes in the next report with spur gears, as well as work on the arm.