February 2001

Saturday 3^rd February 2001

I spent some time talking over the chassis construction with my Dad. He made some very valid suggestions about how I could improve the strength of the chassis, while at the same time making it easier to alter should the need arise. The only down side was that I now needed to buy some more tubing and aluminium plate. Having also just seen the latest Robot Wars program where Tornado was thown several feet into the air a couple of times, it made me realise how strong the chassis needs to be if you are to survive against opponents like the "Wheely Big Cheese".

Saturday 9^th February 2001

Collected the wheel axles from Settform where they had milled a long key way slot into each shaft as well as tidying up the ragged ends of the axles.

Monday 19^th February 2001

Four plummer block bearings arrived from SKF today. I can now move forward with building the idler shaft assembly for the motors by chatting the design over with my friendly metal workshop.