Rover 5 progress (pimp out)

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between work and getting the living daylights beaten out of me by a grumpy bovine,
I've not done much with my Rover 5 chassis.

Till today!!


added chassis rails, trying to get the bow out, kinda worked.



lower deck




The wild thumper wheels give great ground clearance.




That's the upper deck fitted.
I had to stop, the drill ran out of charge!

Anyway, it's looking pretty good.
I am starting to wonder how much weight it can cope with.
The wild thumper wheels are pretty heavy, 150 grams each, that's 600 grams for all 4!

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It looks awesome with those large wheels, but same as you I wonder if it will be able to cope with all the weight.
I like the Rover chassis because of the tracks (who doesn't like tracks?), but this looks cool too!

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I wanted to use the tracks, but I got shipped the 4 motor version.
With tracks on it drew half again more current.
Speaking to a mechanic that works on mining and earth moving equipment, he said it was silly to power both ends of a track.

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