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about a week ago our robot (1023) weighted in at about 160. As of tonight we are at 128.4 with just hooks for the moblie goal and sensors to put on.

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Care to explain how you reduced it so much? I'm sure we all would love to hear.

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never say never - in 2002 we were able to successfully bring our robot down from 160 something pounds to within weight without sacrificing functionality.

this year we're better off, we weigh in at only 147 pounds.

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today we finally check we all thought it was going to be heavy cuz of the looks but it came in at 97 lbs and it its no small robot

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With the robot fully assembled she weighed about 125...Probably a little more, but she'll make the weight limit for sure.

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Ok, I will. As of first weigh in 2 nights ago we were at 149.9lbs......needless to say our robot was put on a serious crash diet.
As of last night we were down to 131, looking foward to tommorows weigh in to see were we are at.
:cool:

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our last years robot was 179 lbs. we got it down to 130.0lbs about 5 minutes before qualifications ended. This year's is 105lbs with a couple things not mounted

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we're real fast with lots of bells & whistles all under 130lbs with weight to spare.

We can hardly believe it ourselves.

For those of you >130 - keep drill'n
Good Luck to all! :)

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Rob could we lend you some of our weight?

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127lbs as of last night (2/20/04) after putting some more "stuff" on it, and making more spiffy patterns in the robot like this one!

Still going to make the weight limit... SWEET!!!

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We our overweight 131.1 and thats without any skins that are gonna weigh about 5 pounds so we are working on taking out weight right now the answer looks like we are taken off one of the motors

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We were at 123 last time we weighed it.

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Not to brag or anything....

We weigh 63 lbs with out the battery and the 18 pound arm. So a grand total of about 80 lbs right now.

Also we have a goal gripper, and side "wings" to push balls.

Hopefully we didn't build it TOO light... (hope duribility isn't a problem)

Good luck yall!

-Andy

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The way we lost most of our weight was reducing our robot's two motor drivetrain to single motor drivetrain. This allowed us to take a lot of weight out of our gearboxes. We didn't need the extra motor but it would have been nice.

Another way we took out all that weight was by trying to remove as much steel as possable. For starters we milled down all of out sprockets.

the rest of the weight was lost in drilling holes.

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Wow.. what are those skins made out of??? May I suggest just making them out of tin sheet metal?? Those are real light, actually they are so light, that I hung our previous year's skins from that track system in the ceiling (from the tiles) at the HS last weekend to display them and get them off the floor!!