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Re: Chassis weight

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Originally Posted by M. Krass View Post
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.
... thinking back fondly to the year we actually had to bolt a 27-pound block of lead on to our robot as ballast.

Too bad FIRST does not still include the "Featherweight In The Finals" award. That was a great incentive!

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