thanks! our notebook isn't the most polished or comprehensive, but here it is docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XAdbzfuOf3krEtOGMNjLfzQb18NBJZKLq4Tx_HUAgXM/edit?usp=sharing
Hey! We sold all of our vex parts so we can’t make any more videos about vex. We used an angle grinder to shave down the teeth. Going slowly and methodically is the best way to get a good result. Best of luck!
Nylon nuts are legal. We used plastic thumbscrews (sold on vex website) and shaved the heads off of them to make legal nylon screws. Thankfully, nylon screws and nuts are legal again now
This bot has some really cool features… but I completely disagree with the way you are “saving weight” it feels like you went crazy saving weight in certain areas and then completely disregarded it in others. For example the hs axel brace is completely unnecessary. You also used nylon to mount your berrings and then put poly over them with steel screws to “protect them”. Just feels to me like it was a hopeless cause and most of the weight you could have saved comes from the primary geometry of your bot. Coming from someone who made an 11lb bot.
To be clear I don’t mean this in a harmful way or anything. I still ❤ vex hex, just wanted to share my view of the building process and critiques with this robot.
