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Re: Weight Reduction

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Originally Posted by AJ R View Post
Our robot last year was allmost all pollycarbonate. We were more than 40 pounds overweight. We spent week 5 and thursday of our first competion drilling the holes in the frame larger, trimming corners off of pieces and many speed holes. 3 in hole saw works well but this year we have acess to even larger ones. My advice - allways keep weight into consideration.
Wow, the resemblance is uncanny!

We were in the same boat as your team as well, but we only had two days to shave 30-40 pounds. I'm sure you saw the other picture of our robot in a heap on a piece of plywood. We're planning ahead this year, so hopefully that won't happen again.
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