Cassius II

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Sorry about not updating these pages earlier, but I've been busy.

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	Swinging Arm / Suspension Unit including main wheel and final drive sprocket. Cassius II has variable height suspension , the swinging arm pivot shaft doubles as the chain drive countershaft. The chains are racing Go-cart D.I.D Gold with standard sprockets 91 teeth , The hubbs are home built from duralumin.
	Right hand Side showing Motor and swinging arm in position. The motor is a Bosch 12v 400 watt running on 24 volts (thats cruel but it works for a short time anyway). George is working on the speed control at the moment (but he won't tell me how it's going to work, so I can't tell you)
	Right hand Side without chassis side member showing suspension air bag (blue) under front end of swinging arm. The main chassis is constructed from Aerolam honeycomb aluminium. Its all bonded with epoxy and hard alloy angle and rivets. The swingimg arm and mechanical stuctural parts from Duralumin. aloy.
	Cassius 2 (perched on the milling machine, this is not a secret weapon to destroy Killalot) Shows the suspension off to good effect. The air bag (blue) under front end of swinging arm will be inflated with low pressure gas (co2) to raise the chassis for increased ground clearance.
	Front Suspension The main front wheels (white) can be seen between the two blue airbags. The swinging arm is made from aircraft dural, and is hinged at the front end. The airbags for both front and main wheels is lay-flat fire-type hose, sealed at the ends by clamps.

We will try to update this technical page periodically with more photos and we will tell you of the problems we encounter because we get a lot of them cropping up all the time.

The project is at an exiting stage and will shortly be on all its wheels and ready for power tests. The weapons are only existing on the computer as yet but they look O.K and should be better than last year. (More tricks and power). I hope to get going on the project shortly but this thing called work keeps pissing up the schedual. The other piece of gear being made in the workshop at the moment are some electronic sensors for my friend Trevor Jones yacht (another charity job). He's going to sail to the Australian Olympics and can only move his head as he is tetraplegic (no leg or hand movement) due to a broken neck. I've already converted his aeroplane so he can fly it solo with head and upper arm control only.(C.A.A. regulations are worse than Robot War's reg's). He's a bloody good pilot and far better than I am without such a handicap. and he's a hero in my eyes.

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