Vapourbot Resource - Salamander

Salamander was originally designed to be an attempt at building an axlebot, however after little success I rebuilt it with some help from Frank. It became less of an axlebot than it was however it still relied on the electronics inside the two large wheels, its weapons now consisted of a pair of parrallel flywheel powered by a single motor. In its third incarnation salamander has changed radically, now it possesses only a single large flywheel and is designed to by more ferocious due to the fact that it is better to have a isngle powerful weapon than multiple less powerful ones. Its most instantly noticable change however is it has lost its distinctive colour scheme and now has the black and yellow of the real life fire salamanders.

Salamander III
	History

Salamander was originally designed to be an attempt at building an axlebot, however after little success I rebuilt it with some help from Frank. It became less of an axlebot than it was however it still relied on the electronics inside the two large wheels, its weapons now consisted of a pair of parrallel flywheel powered by a single motor. In its third incarnation salamander has changed radically, now it possesses only a single large flywheel and is designed to by more ferocious due to the fact that it is better to have a isngle powerful weapon than multiple less powerful ones. Its most instantly noticable change however is it has lost its distinctive colour scheme and now has the black and yellow of the real life fire salamanders.
TITLES =45th Greatest Vapourbot (The Big Vapourbot Awards) Winner of Heat H: Crash and Burn Tournament Semi Finallist: Crash and Burn Tournament Crash and Burn Tournament: Finallist Champion: Crash and Burn Tournament! Crash and Burn Tournament Series 2: First Seed Fowler Fic War, Series 5, 21st Seed Crash and Burn Tournament 2, Winner of Heat A Official Vapourbort Awards 2006, Best Horizontal Spinner (joint) Official Vapourbot Awards 2006, Biggest Surprise: Run in Crash and Burn (joint) Official Vapourbot Awards 2006, Battle of the Year: Aquarius vs Salamander (joint) Official Vapourbot Awards 2007: Best Horizontal Spinner
STATS
Colour: black and yellow Weight: 100kg Shape: a semi axle bot, the drive being inside the wheels, Wheels: two large wheels, made of 6mm Titanium, only the outside of the wheel moves however, the 'hubcap area' is static and made of 4mm hardox to act as protection from other weapons. Essentially the wheels it works like a ring spinner on it's side. Speed: 12mph, Turning circle: 0m Armour: 3mm hardox Power: wheelchair motors at 24v Ground clearance: 6mm: but the disc is quite low so its difficult to actaully do much, it is an axle bot after all. Weapons: A massive 22kg spinning disc made of hardox with holes drilled in to center the weight round the edge, it spins at 2000rpm and is aproximatly 80cm in diameter. It has two square hardox teeth to do the damage, the only problem being that its spin up time isn't the fastest ever, it is powered by a 4" magmotor. Robot is heavily shock proofed to prevent damage caused by it's own weapon's recoil. Srimech: invertible. Strengths: Very strong weaponry, manouverable, difficult to get a hold of Weaknesses: High clearance.