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Thomas Gude | 10/07/2015 14:51:52 |
106 forum posts 26 photos | Hey all, Some mates and I are competing in this weekend's Red Bull Soap Box Race Please help us win the People's Choice Award by voting on our team page (it's Watch all the shenanigans on channel Dave @ 6pm on Sunday. Many thanks!! (Mods - bit cheeky I know - if you need to take it down then fair enough but it only needs to stay up for a couple of days! |
Russell Eberhardt | 10/07/2015 16:44:06 |
![]() 2785 forum posts 87 photos | Good luck! Russell. |
Neil Wyatt | 10/07/2015 18:03:01 |
![]() 19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles | > Mods - bit cheeky I know I trust your cartie is carefully engineered? Neil |
Thomas Gude | 10/07/2015 18:11:04 |
106 forum posts 26 photos | Indeed Neil - infact if you click on the link you will see our tecnhical drawings and dimensioned elevations with 3rd angle projection! (albeit of some ye olde parchment) and the steering column has a nice home made brass bush *high tolerance* bearing to keep it smooth and light. We really wanted to make a model for the application but unfortunately we ran out of tume! Thanks Russel! |
Neil Wyatt | 10/07/2015 18:53:39 |
![]() 19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles | Verily, I doth wish ye god speede too, as well, also! Neil |
Michael Gilligan | 10/07/2015 20:51:20 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Posted by Thomas Gude on 10/07/2015 18:11:04:
... and the steering column has a nice home made brass bush *high tolerance* bearing to keep it smooth and light. . Thomas, I do hope that you mean *low tolerance* Anyway ... good luck with the run. MichaelG. |
Ian S C | 11/07/2015 11:08:56 |
![]() 7468 forum posts 230 photos | Good luck, and go well. The other night I watched a TV program, some English chap going for a world record in a cart, had to exceed 83 mph set by an American a number of years ago, I trust your cart is a little less high tech than that one. Ian S C |
Thomas Gude | 13/07/2015 12:27:18 |
106 forum posts 26 photos | Thanks everyone it went really well! Unfortunately we weren't quite "dramatic" enough to make the tv cut. Oh well, there's always next year! Neil - an old boy engineer saw our cart and told me that we had got our Ackermann steering angle just right and he was impressed. Of course it was completely intentional and not just a happy coincidence! Ian - can you remember the name of the program? I'd be interested to watch it. Some of the carts weren't far off and were definately built for speed. I think the day's record was about 40mph - although given the course we had to run I wouldn't want to go much faster than that! Our top speed was around 25mph apparently, but we were pretty chunky! |
AndyP | 13/07/2015 13:21:34 |
189 forum posts 30 photos | That was probably the "Speed with Guy Martin" series on Channel 4, should be viewable here - loved his description of the crash! edit/ Sorry, didn't realise one has to register to view /edit Edited By AndyP on 13/07/2015 13:25:14 |
Ady1 | 13/07/2015 14:15:02 |
![]() 6137 forum posts 893 photos | Some of Guys attempt is on utube |
Ian S C | 14/07/2015 06:11:20 |
![]() 7468 forum posts 230 photos | Yep, it was Guy Martin, quite interesting program, think I'v seen 4 so far, don't know if there's any more. Ian S C |
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