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Originally Posted by EricH
Yep. 330 found out how hard it is to remove a lot of weight back in 1998, when they got to their first event (the Nationals--back then, you didn't have to qualify) and found that they were 26# over. After that, we decided that we didn't want to do that again.
Since then, we've managed weight. We know what gets hit first, and what comes off first. 2007: projections for the ramps and armor put the robot about 5-15# over. Somebody came up with a pretty good idea: the ramps are going to be protection anyway, so why do we have the armor? We wound up with only about 1-2# over, so we took off one ramp to deal with it temporarily. Wound up removing a duplicate motor, but we came in at weight.
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I'll never forget the weighing in at one of our two regionals in 07... The scale read 120.0 then 120.1 and kept switching back and forth. Then the head inspector says, "Well, they don't say how
long it has to be 120.0 lbs!"
Only had to remove a few shavings. :-)
Contrary to how things usually go, for once we might be adding weight to the base of our robot this year.