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Originally Posted by Scott England
Back on the topic of "least professionally engineered solution deployed on a robot"
a literal lead brick from the small parts catalog, 1997, roughly hewn with a hack saw to get the total robot weight to the exact maximum. You can still find the basic item at small parts (since they were purchased by amazon)
http://www.amazon.com/Small-Parts-Le.../dp/B003SLEVSA
on FRC Team # 122, used to counterbalance a long arm. |
I sincerely apologize but you are mistaken. The two ballast on the arms are constructed of .5 inch plate steel. This steel is occasionally used in cooking applications and was a remnant I had left over from a grill project I never completed. They needed something really heavy and very thin. I donated it to the team and it did the job quite nicely. I can assure you that these steel plates were not cut with a hacksaw. I gave up on that barely 2 inches into the plate and an hour later.