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Re: pic: Team 166's Desperate Weight Saving Measures - 1

you could also lose a tiny bit from trimming off the 3/8" of bolt sticking out past the nut. about an hour with a dremel and you could save a couple of ounces from each wheel.
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about an hour with a dremel and you could save a couple of ounces from each wheel.
or 5 minutes with a zip wheel

might mess up the threads but times are desperate
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you could also lose a tiny bit from trimming off the 3/8" of bolt sticking out past the nut. about an hour with a dremel and you could save a couple of ounces from each wheel.
That's the next step

These are the wheels on our practice robot and we don't really have to take the time cutting down those bolts. We just did this to the practice robot to make sure the wheels would still work properly.

We probably already cut down those bolts on our competition robot. I can't remember.
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Re: pic: Team 166's Desperate Weight Saving Measures - 1

what kind of bolts are those? I believe switching to aluminum bolts would save some weight.
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Re: pic: Team 166's Desperate Weight Saving Measures - 1

It looks like the bolts are stainless steel. I personally wouldn't use anything but stainless steel or steel on anything in the drive train just because of the beating their likely to take a beating. We had some aluminum bolts sitting around our shop a while back and I wouldn't even use them on a vex robot.
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