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A cool way to use a Bosch drill - Power a 15 ft Dinosaur!
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I can't resist adding a follow-on to this (now) month-old thread ...
Way back in 1998 we used two Bosch drills to power the wheels on our 'Lightweight Class' robot in the UK Robot Wars competition held that year!
We gave our 'robot' the surreal name of Slippery Strana, and here's our ancient old web-page showing how we adapted the two Bosch drills and their speed-control triggers:
Why Slippery Strana is Fast
http://www.slipperystrana.info/robot_fast.html
My young(er) pal Charlie did almost all of the construction on Slippery Strana, and I supported the project with design ideas (mainly on the electrics and electronics) and supplied most of the cash! (We burnt out two Bosch drills in the prototype stages.)
In the 1998 UK Robot Wars competition there were only a handful of entries in our Lightweight Class. We won our single 'battle', but because our little robot didn't have any scary, aggressive, drama-inducing weapons our single fight wasn't broadcast on UK TV ... but we did get a showing on the YouTube versions of the Robot Wars Series ...
From 5 minutes 10 seconds into this YouTube video our little robot gets its 15 seconds of fame as it survives a pounding by the "House Robots" (Yeah ... the House Robots took it out on the little guys, even the winners ;D )
RWars Series 2 Grudge Match Special Part 3
(YouTube embedding is disabled "by request" on these Robot Wars videos.)
Anyway, our robot held onto its wheels and we held onto our self respect. The Bosch drills (with their thoroughly-key-tightened chucks) ran in the robot for years afterwards, until Charlie eventually dismantled it.
I'll skip any contrived comparison here between Bosch and Festool in my first FOG post, but I will admit to picking up, fondling and running my PDC 18/4 drill many times since I've owned it - in between it doing its real jobs - simply to relish its beautifully (IMO) engineered qualities and to muse on its potential ... although not in powering dinosaurs or robots ;D
Colin P.
Way back in 1998 we used two Bosch drills to power the wheels on our 'Lightweight Class' robot in the UK Robot Wars competition held that year!
We gave our 'robot' the surreal name of Slippery Strana, and here's our ancient old web-page showing how we adapted the two Bosch drills and their speed-control triggers:
Why Slippery Strana is Fast
http://www.slipperystrana.info/robot_fast.html
My young(er) pal Charlie did almost all of the construction on Slippery Strana, and I supported the project with design ideas (mainly on the electrics and electronics) and supplied most of the cash! (We burnt out two Bosch drills in the prototype stages.)
In the 1998 UK Robot Wars competition there were only a handful of entries in our Lightweight Class. We won our single 'battle', but because our little robot didn't have any scary, aggressive, drama-inducing weapons our single fight wasn't broadcast on UK TV ... but we did get a showing on the YouTube versions of the Robot Wars Series ...
From 5 minutes 10 seconds into this YouTube video our little robot gets its 15 seconds of fame as it survives a pounding by the "House Robots" (Yeah ... the House Robots took it out on the little guys, even the winners ;D )
RWars Series 2 Grudge Match Special Part 3
(YouTube embedding is disabled "by request" on these Robot Wars videos.)
Anyway, our robot held onto its wheels and we held onto our self respect. The Bosch drills (with their thoroughly-key-tightened chucks) ran in the robot for years afterwards, until Charlie eventually dismantled it.
I'll skip any contrived comparison here between Bosch and Festool in my first FOG post, but I will admit to picking up, fondling and running my PDC 18/4 drill many times since I've owned it - in between it doing its real jobs - simply to relish its beautifully (IMO) engineered qualities and to muse on its potential ... although not in powering dinosaurs or robots ;D
Colin P.
