Last year we came in at about 5 pounds underweight after everything was built and put on, so we didn't think we'd have a problem this year.
Wrong! At the start of Thursday we were 20-30 lbs overweight. So we swiss-cheesed our conveyor mechanism and everything else that wasn't structurally important, swapped some of our aluminum speedrail for PVC, removed 2-3 lbs of excess wiring, took off some of the lexan armor for our control system, switched some steel components for aluminum, swapped the door on our hopper for something waaaay lighter, and removed 8lbs of unnecessary support for our control board. Now we're at weight!
