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Re: Worried about weight ?

This year, we get to worry about the falling over wars instead.
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Re: Worried about weight ?

4901 will be right on the line, but I'm not concerned since we have a few pretty simple outs with our design. I haven't had to put a robot on a crash diet since 2006, why start again now?
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Re: Worried about weight ?

108lbs. Literally 1lb less than the cad. I'm so happy.
That leaves room for more subassemblies... we ahve two robots so we can test.
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Re: Worried about weight ?

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We weren't worried, then we weighed in at 145lbs!!!
Today is weight-loss day. We have a plan that should take 28 pounds out of the frame. Wish us luck!
Got our robot down to 113 lbs. That's 32 lbs we cut in 1 day!
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Re: Worried about weight ?

We weighed our robot on Sunday night and got 128 pounds. We removed some parts that were not mandatory and got it down to 122 pounds. Unfortunately, there were still parts that needed to be added. Some parts were remade using 1/16 inch wall tubing instead of 1/8 inch wall tubing. Today was a long session of "alumi-suction" and we ended up at about 118 pounds. Tomorrow, will be more sessions of alumi-suction to lose more weight so we have margin for adding to our mechanisms.
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Re: Worried about weight ?

105 lbs. Close enough to think about weight but not close enough to worry. We'll be adding a little at our first regional.
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Re: Worried about weight ?

Weighed again last night, just about 105, enough room for us to figure out what to use to push the noodles out of our way...
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Re: Worried about weight ?

The robot spent the last 3 days out in the warehouse spa under going weight reduction therapy. 119.8 A cylinder swap should keep us just under
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Re: Worried about weight ?

We were over but did a lot of weight reduction to get to 115
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Re: Worried about weight ?

Last night we drilled 200 1.5 inch holes and removed every possible thing that we could and were down to 119 using pressure pads. Were cutting it way to close.
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Cool Re: Worried about weight ?

Our team recently weighed our robot as well. It was ten pounds over; so the past two nights have been spent drilling holes and replacing parts with lighter options. I think we're still four pounds over, so the robot is going to look like Swiss Cheese.
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Re: Worried about weight ?

Yes, my team, 4456, robot, when we weighted it this last Saturday, was 162.5 pounds, 42 and a half pounds overweight. Our robot was suppose to pick up 5 totes at once and drop them all at once with an accordion forklift design, which turn out to be to heavy. Therefore we spent that last couple days on the biggest robot loser mood. Also, sense my team is centered in northwest of the District of Columbia this storm is really slowing us down.
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Re: Worried about weight ?

114 lbs according to the bathroom scale + plywood base method. No idea what the error range on the scale is, but needless to say nothing else is going on the bot...
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Re: Worried about weight ?

We weighted it yesterday. 1.6 pounds over weight, we already know how to reduce the bot. So we are in good shape.
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Re: Worried about weight ?

We don't know how much we weigh but we know it is less than 100 lbs with a battery. We will find out the true weight at our week 6 regional.
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