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Re: Our Robot weight woes.. to rebuild or not to rebuild

We were worried about weight on our robot so we dropped the thickness of the sheetmetal we were using in a lot of places; or you could switch to plastic all together. Not only is the thinner stuff lighter but its way easier to machine and cut. Also what size bolts are you using, we dropped ours down to #10-32 to just about everything and saved a ton of weight.
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