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Re: Under or over weight?

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Originally Posted by DanielBCR
Well, we got blindsided yesterday and found out that our robot will be 10 pounds overweight when we finish . What we're gonna do is we are cutting a large truss pattern in two of our arm components, which saves around 4 pounds, and bore the heck out of the kitbot gearbox (2-3 pounds each probably). Beyond that, I don't know
Yeah, the good news is we actually have time to do this before ship. I remember in 2002 we found we were overweight while at SoCal which lead to the most frantic lightening of a robot I have ever seen. I'd rather not repeat that experience.
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