Thread: Chassis weight
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Re: Chassis weight

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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56 View Post
How and why do some teams make the drivetrain so light? It would seem that it would hurt the CG a lot.
We make everything as light as possible. Adding weight later is much easier than taking it off. In the ten years that I've been with FIRST, I've had a robot tip over twice.
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