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Bigger Better Beetle Blade
by Pete Smith
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38 COMBAT ZONE’S
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Events
37 May 10 - June 1 Results
28 SERVO 08.2010
BUILD REPORT:
Bigger Better Beetle Blade
● by Pete Smith
The first blade I had created for our 3 lb beetleweight,
Pure Dead Brilliant (seen in
Figure 1 with the original and
new blades), had been done in a
big hurry to meet
weight for its first
competition. As a result,
it was shorter and
lighter than I would
have liked. The bot did
reasonably well in
competition, and there
seemed to be no great
hurry to replace that
original blade. The 2010
Motorama event
changed that when our
blade lost yet another
tooth, plus Maniac
Kathy irreparably
damaged it. This gave
me the impetus to
create a batch of blades
that could be used on
any PDB kit (available at
www.kitbots.com) or
indeed any beetleweight
designed around it.
The blade was based on that
of Maniac Kathy, but with some
improvements. The original had
been machined from 6061
aluminum and had simple flame
FIGURE 1
