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wackiejackie7nf
07-10-2006, 00:39
Is anybody else having HUGE issues with staying under 120 lbs?!?!?!??!?! AHHH!!!!!!! We just worked ALL DAY, like 230 until midnight and suddenly we are almost at 100 lbs..Oops! :)
Jason W
07-10-2006, 14:17
That would imply weighing it, as oppose to just crossing our fingers and saying well.. if its heavy we CAN..... take it out there.. there and there.. oh and that bolt doesn't need to be THAT long. : P
wackiejackie7nf
07-10-2006, 23:41
That would imply weighing it, as oppose to just crossing our fingers and saying well.. if its heavy we CAN..... take it out there.. there and there.. oh and that bolt doesn't need to be THAT long. : P


Hahaa oh good! :) we're not the only ones...that peice can just be cardboard right? that aluminum can just be removed right..? haha, awesome
Big_Dale
20-10-2006, 14:09
yea, we had a weight problem before the check in. I think our team was overweight by about 10lbs before the tournament.
SWIM
20-10-2006, 16:59
speed holes FTW
;)
Silent_Stryker
20-10-2006, 17:32
yea our initial weigh in thursday was 130 lbs
Bill_Hancoc
20-10-2006, 17:59
Ha...we were 77.5lbs but we did have a little trouble fitting in the box...but we are thinking about adding some dumbells for quick weight...so we can remove it really quick so its still easy to carry the robot
Josh Murphy
20-10-2006, 18:42
We weighed in at 118. we are pretty good on weight. :)
surferacf
21-10-2006, 09:44
From our initial projections and our own weighings, we were at 116.8. Turns out that OCCRA's scale weighs less than ours! 113.5!
Mike Martus
21-10-2006, 12:19
Ha...we were 77.5lbs but we did have a little trouble fitting in the box...but we are thinking about adding some dumbells for quick weight...so we can remove it really quick so its still easy to carry the robot

This would be illegal as the dumbells are not on the additional materials list.

Any added weight must be legal kit materials.
Mike Martus
21-10-2006, 12:23
Size and weight are two issues that there are no exception to. Teams should plan their robot dimensions as well as weight carefully as to not cause a panic at the time of inspections.

NOTE: Once your robot is inspected the inspection is NOT final. Your robot may be reinspected at any time. If found out of specification you will lose any wins/points earned while out of compliance.

Any team adding additional mechanisms not on their robot at the time of inspection MUST be reinspected to be legal. This is a SAFETY issue.
CBaoth
22-10-2006, 16:43
Size and weight are two issues that there are no exception to. Teams should plan their robot dimensions as well as weight carefully as to not cause a panic at the time of inspections.


defintly a good idea... last year at first we were about 15 lbs over... :yikes:


as to being over weight this year. heh we dont make the same mistake twice(but we make plenty of new ones to make up for it).
but how did you take off more then 20 lbs?!
surferacf
23-10-2006, 21:09
Speed Holes. Plus, you don't really need all four of those wheels? Or that battery... ;)
Silent_Stryker
23-10-2006, 22:10
defintly a good idea... last year at first we were about 15 lbs over... :yikes:


as to being over weight this year. heh we dont make the same mistake twice(but we make plenty of new ones to make up for it).
but how did you take off more then 20 lbs?!
we were only ten over, so we just took off any non-structural and unnecessary metal off the robot, which meant cutting our gripper in half, going from four points to 2