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Re: Al's Annual Inspection Thread 2013

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Originally Posted by DRH2o View Post
Exact weight is an indicator of no change.
Not quite. You can take off exactly 3.00 lbs of one mechanism and replace it with 3.00 lbs of a different mechanism.

I have also seen robots that have had exactly no physical changes made (except for code revisions) weigh anywhere between 0.1 and 0.4 lbs different between events.
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