thanks. things are going much more slowly because of school and the endless amounts of revision and work that brings. still working away at it though and will make lots of progress in the upcoming half term

ooh do share what you learn

I am planning on using the golden motors 3KW motor (there are 2, either the 48V or 72V) and we haven't thought about batteries except for the fact that we need them and should probably try and get a company to sponsor them.

also 72V is quite high and we spoke to someone from Surrey university's formula student team for some advice and he recommended not going above 50V because thats when things start to get more dangerous.

There it is. Video uploaded.

As always, please do share any ways you think I could improve my videos and feel free to ask any questions about the build


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvby7QltptU

thanks for the advice

Another good video Marek. If I can a few observations though.
Your idea of not clamping your work will one day lead to a lot of pain, or worse. In a previous you were using a centre drill. That is the tool for getting your work properly aligned and then clamp it down, check again, and then replace the centre drill with drill bits. As you have available the great drill press you can wind the table down as you use longer, greater diameter drills. Please, I don't want to see you with some of the scars I have from trying to hold work pieces, even with mole grips, let alone by hand. I have shed a lot of blood from not  following good work practices. (In my case frequently from not having the equipment you have)
There's an old workshop saying" hacksaw with one hand, soon you will have only one hand to use". If/when you break a hacksaw blade, and the broken piece spears into the ball of the thumb of the hand you were holding your work piece, you will know why. Both hands on the saw, one doing the work at the handle, the other guiding at the front, always.
On your Christmas wish list, add an engineers hammer Carpenters hammer is for nails . You can never have enough hammers for the right purposes.

Rhys got in before me with the clamping, I've just bought a decent cast iron drill vice (the last one was feeble), and a cross vice, neither of them expensive. I gave up on holding things by hand some years ago, after all dexterity matters to me, it's my livelyhood.

With hacksawing, as soon as you've got a groove cut then it's both hands on the saw, also cut in long strokes, using as much of the blade as possible. That's what I was taught in metalwork over 40 years ago.

Best advice I can give you is pick up a hammer before you buy, and choose one that feels good. I bought two repousse hammers off ebay, for class members to use when I taught enammeling (my hammer is sacrosanct). One is horrible to use, and the other is good enough to replace mine. One that's comfortable to use is more important than a particular brand, the days of dodgy cheap hammers are long gone thankfully.

You need two ball pein hammers, one light one about 4oz, and a heavier one 8oz, a repousse is handy for light metal forming.