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Question:
Whats cooler than robots?
Answer:
Nothing
EXCEPT
GIANT F****ING ROBOTS!
YEA!
We're talking MECHS.
That's right kids
Anime is real
and you can have a big ass robot of your very own.
Get ready. This is EPIC HOW TO.
Mechs are large human operated robots
that are usually either by people
or humanoid in shape.
First appearing in the eighteen eighty
Jules Verne novel "The Steam House"
they became popular in japanese manga
and anime starting in the mid fifties.
Nowadays, Mechs are all over pop culture
from StarWars to Metal Gear Solid
to Pacific Rim.
But Mechs aren't just in tv comics and movies
Did you know that the US military
actually built a mech in the early sixties?
Codenamed "BEETLE", this eleven foot tall
seventy-seven tonne mech
was originally designed to repair aircraft engines.
The military wanted something that could
withstand radiation so the "BEETLE" was designed
to be nuclear proof
with an inch and a half thick steel armor and
and twelve inch thick Lead plating.
The "BEETLE" was painfully slow
with the top speed of just eight miles per hour
but it had eighty five thousand pounds of
pull in its arms, capable of punching through a solid brick wall.
HOLY S**T!
And the "BEETLE" wasn't all brute force.
In the nineteen sixty two demonstration
it picked up a single egg without breaking it
because it was beautiful...and delicate.
However the "BEETLE" never saw use
as it was deemed too unreliable for military purposes.
Mech experiments didn't stop there though.
In nineteen sixty six GE invented The Camp
the cybernetic anthropomorphic machine.
Also known as "The Walking truck"
the three tonne cam was designed to move weapons and cargo
to rough terrain during war time.
Created entirely through the use of hydraulics
the cam had twelve foot long legs
and a top speed of thirty five miles an hour
Despite being far more reliable than the "BEETLE"
pilots found controlling the camp intuitive
and weird and the project was abandoned.
Japan refused to let the Mech dream die
and in two thousand and four created the T-52 anryu
The T-52 ANRYU also known by the enemy ripping name
"Hyper Rescue Robot"
weighs five tonnes and stood ten feet tall.
Designed to clear path through the wreckage and debris
after natural disasters
the T-52 has enough power to lift a car trapped in snow bank
and rip the door off of a truck
TOTALLY SCARED THE HOLY HELL OUT
OF THOSE PEOPLE INSIDE THAT HE'S SAVING.
But unless you're a time traveler or Japanese rescue worker
you dont have a chance of taking a Mech out for a spin
OR DO YOU?
Enter the Mark II
created by the US company "Megabox"
the Mark II was designed to fulfil your
fantasies of piloting a giant fight robot.
Weighing in at over six tonnes and standing
over fifteen feet tall,
the Mark II moves around using a combination
of hydraulics and tank treads.
It even has a big ass paintball gun
that can fire rounds at speeds of a hundred miles per hour.
And from Japan there's the "Puritous"
developed by side obayashi heavy industries that Caritas is a 13 foot
tall four-ton behemoth that drives around on four wheels and its control
interface is an iphone app cute
it has a BB Gatling gun that can shoot 6,000 rounds per minute and a launcher
that shoots water bottles because it goes to like impoverished countries that
don't have water
instead of building a well it just frightens the hell out of them but then
like quenches their thirst
it even has an iron claw that you can operate using a device that looks like
the old Nintendo Power glove
now you're playing with power. Nope? Ok. So if you happen to have like 1.35 million
dollars lying around you can order one off their website go crazy
are you torn between the two mechs well last year megabots challenge - dashi
heavy industries to a one-on-one neck war and the two were scheduled to battle
it out sometime in the near future
stay tuned it'll probably be on the internet it's where everything is
but why limit yourself to someone else's mech when you can build your own
probably because you're lazy but I'll tell you this information anyway in 2004
US Army mechanic Carlos Owens built a mech in his backyard in Wasilla Alaska to
build the 18-foot tall one ton Mech Owens first started by building a smaller
model out of wood
then Owens created a steel frame though eventually switch to aluminum to make
his Mech lighter and give it greater mobility 27 hydraulic cylinders are used
to control the Mech's movement an 18 horsepower engine powers the whole damn
thing
all in all it took Owens over four years and twenty-five thousand dollars of his
own money to make his Mech and he's looking to raise even more to further
develop and create new Mechs
see he's got goals kids makes some
but before you start building your own Mech you need a basic understanding of
hydraulics without hydraulics your Mech is nothing more than a big metal paper
weight
your Mech is going to be both hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic pump the pump
works as a generator bringing the hydraulic oil into the cylinder the
cylinder utilizes the pressure of the fluid and converts that into force
inside the hydraulic cylinder are a rod and a piston the piston is a circular
disc that connects to the rot
when the hydraulic oil enters the cylinder it pushes on the piston which
then moves the rod get it
good with this forest hydraulic cylinders can be used in heavy machinery
like crains snow plows and of course giant kick-ass fighting anime robots
yeah add those to that steel frame and you're well on your way to fight and
kaiju probably lose
he's got like mythical powers and shit Hey look at you you're all cool your new
Mech
it's awesome well bow before your complete total badassery maybe I maybe
can let me drive it
no don't okay well it's probably the right decision
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