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Ours was 11 pounds over. We had to get rid of two drive train motors. It was a tough decision. But now we are .2 under!!!! I think that the weight and height requirements are some of the hardest things to go by.:)

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we are in the 110 weight class, weighing in at 108. For all you guys under by only a few tenths of a pound, man id be careful with that, robots tend to gain weight in the crate and you don't want the last minute weight reduction craze
to commence.

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Our robot is 10 pounds over weight. Does anyone have any tips on how to make it lighter. THANKS

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If you could post a picture or two of your robot, we could give you some specific advice.

1726 has some experience with weight reduction at the 3 days to ship point (ie today), last year the robot was about 25 lbs over, all shed by Tuesday.

This year it's 1.5 lbs under at the 3 day mark.

(oops, it's really less than a pound under! it's a 5 footer)

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Our robot is right around 120....we haven't found a real good way of weighing it yet besides putting some wood on a normal digital scale and then placing the robot on that....any good advice. Another problem is that our chassi is made of steel......it's a little thinner becuase it's stronger than aluminum but it's still heavy.....too late to worry about that. We got it made for free so we aren't complaining. I'm gonna post some pictures on here sometime before 7 tonight so maybe you guys could check back around then and leave some advice for weight cutting. If you want to check out a few pictures now.....go here http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=64023 ....but i will still put better pictures up later. By the way....we changed the mechanism that knocks the ball off the starting place to PVC instead of stell.....cut a bit of weight that way.

Thanks and don't forget to check back around 7

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We cut holes before hand so that this wouldn't happen, and we have approx. 835 holes pre cut to make sure didn't happen, now we are at 95 lbs, with two different ball handling devices.

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We are about 10 lbs underweight, but we are still incomplete, and when we are we will be cutting things extremely close.

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During practice sessions yesterday at the Fembots Gym, we weighed in with bumpers on at 114.2 Lbs

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surprizingly i think our team is under the weight rule. awesome for us. if you have a problem with weight, look for things that can be replace with something that has less weight. we originally had some wood (how weird) but we switched to plexiglass...saved us alot of weight.

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We thought we were under weight, using the balance-on-wood-on-bathroom-scale trick. Then we went to the mentor's shipping scale, and were at 122. Drilling and cutting commenced. We'll get there - we were done, but now parts are strewn about for lightening, so pictures will have to wait.

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We are at about 115-120, we know what we're taking off if we need to shed some poundage though.

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Whew . . .

I sure hope our scale is calibrated properly. :ahh:

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At least your'e not cutting it close...last year our scale showed 19.9 when we put it in the crate!

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That's not cutting it close! You must have had a frame of unobtanium!

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We weighed in at 120.0 Saturday on what we believe to be a reliable scale. *crosses fingers*