Robot Scale

[BethMo]

We bought one that was advertised for veterinarians. It's worked really well for us... one of the best purchases we've made.

[MrForbes]

brought the bathroom scale to the shop, near the end of build. Tilted the robot up on it, read 76 lbs. At regional, added 4 lbs of lexan, got it weighed on the official scale, it was 80 lbs.

I was pleasantly surprised.

[IKE]

I bought several of the 400 lb postage scale from amazon listed above and gave them to teams throughout Michigan. I also checked against cal weights and they were within 0.1 lbs at 100 lbs.

[2508electronics]

We have a team member who weighs almost exactly 120 pounds, so we use a large board and a piece of plywood to make a balance.

[GeeTwo]

We have a rather nice electronic package scale when we're just interested in weight. When we want to find CoG, we pull out four spring "fish scales" and hang one corner of the robot from each of them. We even have some stands that were modified from turkey fryer hooks from which we can hang the spring scales.