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Re: 2 batteries
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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
You can buy 5 and 10 lb iron weights at discount department stores, and the have a convenient hole thru the center for mounting.
And Small Parts still sells 27 pound bricks of lead. We have used them in the past as ballast (many, many years ago - ahhhh, for the good old days, when our robots always seemed to come in well under weight instead of well over... )


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