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Re: Worried about weight ?

We're worried about weight. We put up a couple of stacks this weekend and all of that's well under weight. We've known all along that we'd want to add a specialty mechanism or two, so we've been fairly weight-conscious about everything. If something will be CNC'ed, we save as many ounces as seems practical. If something will be manual milled, we try to do holes, slots or planing. Not everything got done in its lightest form, but I can't complain that we have an integrated robot with a 9/10 primary mechanism at the end of Week 5.

The good news is, it looks like our entire specialty mechanism will fit in under the 30lb withholding, so we can keep that back for more tuning and focus on driver practice while we can.

It's the first time we've ever actually worried about weight - the rest of the years we knew where we were but didn't have to modify anything specifically to get under weight. c.g. isn't the best, but it hasn't been an issue yet during practice.
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