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Originally Posted by The other Gabe
how on earth did you get that under 120 lbs?
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Well, for starters, you'd be surprised what you have weight for when you get rid of a drive train and use no CIM motors. We could have reduced weight on the stacker but we wanted as much as we could afford in the stacker to counterbalance the crane. We also found that mangling a couple wal-mart ladders could give some decent structure on the conveyor for very low weight and the structure of the crane is almost entirely thin aluminum bent and riveted into rectangular tubes. There was alot of other stuff we wanted to add to our robot but did not have the weight for. We had a plan in the works to get the other 2 containers off the step using suction cup shooting crossbows.
