SUBLIME3

I have gotten allot done in the last little while. I have been building the robot in "fast mode" since I didn't know when I had to finish by. Well now that Battle Bots has anownced the date for the next event I can slow building down a little. I still plan on finishing by the end of March however so I can get almost two full months of practice driving in.

I finished up the last report by completing one side of the drive. Her it is with the other side done. Now I had a few decisions to make, should I A.-build a steel frame from tubing and mount all the aurmor to that? Or should I B.- build alluminum bulkheads and mount all the armor to that? I chose B. I used the plasma cutter to cut out two identical bulkheads from 1/4" 2024 alluminum, then I scribed a patern to cut out to make it lighter.

I then clamped the bulkhead in the mill and started to cut the pattern out. Here I am finishing it.

After I took the part from the mill I cleaned up the rounded edges, I did them free hand so they had a lot of litle ridges on them, the file made them nice and smooth. Here is the completed bulkhead. I then did the same thing to the other one.

Now that I had both bulkheads done I started to cut out the other armor. Here I am cutting out the back. It takes almost 2 seconds to cut through the 1/4" 2024 panel with this hydralic shear. Here I laid out the side and back armor panels to test fit them.

I cut the reast of the armor panels out on the hydralic shear, took about 5 min to do all of the panels. Hear I have started to lay them out in their final places. I used tape to holt them in place to take the pictures. Hear are a few shots of what it will look like.