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The Friarbot mkIII is currently 58 lbs, leaving half the weight limit for the arm that we have yet to fabricate.

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I think we might have found a hard hitter. But we stil aren't sure if we're over...

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right now team 1388 is approx. 20 pounds under weight.

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The team 1208 completed (we think) robot is six pounds under weight.

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What robot? :rolleyes:

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The kitbot transmission and chasiss really helped us out with a fast start on designs and weight. The nearly complete robot is in around 75 lbs. We are very much a single function robot with only a two segment arm at this time. We are using four CIM with a four wheel drive and then a window lift motor with a roller chain gear reduction for the arm. If we add a pnuematic extension to give us more reach we will be over a 100 lbs and closing in on the 120 limit. ;)

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I was concerned today about what I thought was an overly heavy camera "cage". Then I found that the robot had been weighed with all pieces (not all assembled, but all present) and was significantly underweight.

I fear something major has been overlooked, though I can't imagine what.

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Our "SECRET" drive train this year will weigh around 65-70 pounds so the rest of the team made me swear that my arm would weigh less than 30. :ahh: I'm just hoping I come somewhere near that goal. So this year team 114 is keeping to KISS, except for the drive train, and electronics box, and grabber... Okay mabe just the arm. :rolleyes:

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Jeez! What did you make your trannys out of? Depleted Uranium?

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Our team's ideology is to remove all the weight possible before assembly. We are cutting out triangles out of our arm like crazy. Weight reduction is a major thing this year for us, since last year we had to cut down 10 lbs with a drill and dremel tool. If you have a cnc router in your shop, it would be a good idea to engrave your team number or logo ( or even your sponsors) onto wherever :D .

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How does 25-30 lbs over weight sound to people....kind of scary, huh! <yikes> :ahh:

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We are currently 10 pounds under but are adding more that wasnt planned. Its gonna be close. :(

-The Mode

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I took 177 to cover the spread and the under... err um we'll be 120 lbs by the end of inspection on Thurs of the UTC. :D

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our team is trying to be underweight by 5 pounds so we can add counter weights so we won't fall over when lifting tetra or tetras.

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Well 50 1" holes that are 1/8" thick alluminum equals 1 lb
hope that trivia helps