Please help…

I am helping to start up a greenpower racing team at school. The idea is to build and race an electric car.

http://www.greenpower.co.uk/about/


Our budget as always with school projects at a state comprehensive school is the vast sum of £0 ( up against mainly private schools )

Looking for any short or long off cuts of steel chassis tube and ally panelling.

Can collect in Nottinghamshire area ..

Sorry not able to extend to beer tokens

Paul

Ps any technical help or ideas very welcome…

That sounds like a fun projcet for the kids and you as well. You wiould be as well to go around some of the industrail units and see what they have in the off cuts bin, after asking of course. i went to a fire door company a while back and came aways with a sheet of 6 x 4 steel which has been reallly helpful.

Depending how keen the kids are, what about getting them to hold a fundraiser to raise some cash to but any bits you can't pilfer elsewhere? Lets them be imaginative at the same time?

If any one travells your way I have around 6m of 19mm rhs taking up space.

Hi Paul.
I've got some heavy cable that could be of use to you.
And some small offcuts of Aluminium honeycomb.
I'm ten minutes from Ravenshead.

Geoff.

Geoff, Thanks for the offer All bits are appreciated esp Aluminium honeycomb. I will send you a U2u.

Big wasa again thanks for the offer. If its still going spare I could pop over your way next weekend.

Paul

Yes mate I will have a look what elts ive got propping up the garage

I have a few 3mm steel sheet off cuts, not very big, but ok for engine mounts, gusset plates etc.

i have some 63mm exhaust offcuts, but not sure if they would be of ue to you? they are however buddyclub spec 4 bits and extremely lightweight!

Ive got:

3 x 2m of 19x19 1.6mm rhs

1 x 1.5m 30x30 3mm rhs

3 x 1m+ dexion 50mm drilled angle

2 x 50cm+ 50mm 3mm rhs

Some big bits of 1.6mm steel plate

Big-ish bit of new alloy plate 1.6mm

4 x 1m is 25x5mm alloy strip

Tub with 30 kg ish of of cuts steel / alloy / plate / tube.

Come and clean my garage out before I leave it out for the pixies

Doing any fiber glass for the body ? Ive got a large roll of matting. enough to make a monocoque of that size.

hi, i used to be apart of the bexley business academy team (non-private) but a very competitive set of cars. we regularly where in the top 10 and finished first second and third a few times.

over the 5 years i was their, we learnt that weight saving is better than aerodynamics, to have no wings or any aero parts. also we only used 1 wheel drive and kept the chassis as light as possible. also we trained the younger years to drive as they where lighter and older years as the mechanics...

we ended up with 4 cars, but the very first and original one was still one of the best, its reliability won it for us...

good luck