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Re: We're trying to lose weight...

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Originally Posted by bighead1358 View Post
i saw a team one year that was overweight one year with a lot of lexsand the jail birds i think.. they drilled a rediculous amount of wholes in it until they where under.
Yea, that was us in 06 . . Lots of holes in lots of 1/8 in. Lexan.

The team found out that a UPS store scale is not very accurate @ 120 lbs.
We got a good digital scale the year after that. I think it ended up being about 20 pounds overweight. Removing the pneumatic system improved it significantly, the rest was hardware/holes.

In hindsight, the construction method for our hopper that year made it a bit heavy. (1/8 in. Polycarb where 1/16th would suffice).
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