Under or over weight?

[Goobergunch]

The Friarbot mkIII is currently 58 lbs, leaving half the weight limit for the arm that we have yet to fabricate.

[pakrat]

I think we might have found a hard hitter. But we stil aren't sure if we're over...

[JTRULOCK]

right now team 1388 is approx. 20 pounds under weight.

[EOC]

The team 1208 completed (we think) robot is six pounds under weight.

[ghansel]

What robot?

[Andrew Schuetze]

The kitbot transmission and chasiss really helped us out with a fast start on designs and weight. The nearly complete robot is in around 75 lbs. We are very much a single function robot with only a two segment arm at this time. We are using four CIM with a four wheel drive and then a window lift motor with a roller chain gear reduction for the arm. If we add a pnuematic extension to give us more reach we will be over a 100 lbs and closing in on the 120 limit.

[Alan Anderson]

I was concerned today about what I thought was an overly heavy camera "cage". Then I found that the robot had been weighed with all pieces (not all assembled, but all present) and was significantly underweight.

I fear something major has been overlooked, though I can't imagine what.

[Michael Corsetto]

Our "SECRET" drive train this year will weigh around 65-70 pounds so the rest of the team made me swear that my arm would weigh less than 30. I'm just hoping I come somewhere near that goal. So this year team 114 is keeping to KISS, except for the drive train, and electronics box, and grabber... Okay mabe just the arm.

[UlTiMaTeP]

Originally Posted by CRAZYMADI

...Our transmission system only account for 35 pounds.....

Jeez! What did you make your trannys out of? Depleted Uranium?

[IndianChieftain]

Our team's ideology is to remove all the weight possible before assembly. We are cutting out triangles out of our arm like crazy. Weight reduction is a major thing this year for us, since last year we had to cut down 10 lbs with a drill and dremel tool. If you have a cnc router in your shop, it would be a good idea to engrave your team number or logo ( or even your sponsors) onto wherever .

[bigqueue]

How does 25-30 lbs over weight sound to people....kind of scary, huh! <yikes>

[Modeish]

We are currently 10 pounds under but are adding more that wasnt planned. Its gonna be close.

-The Mode

[Peter Matteson]

I took 177 to cover the spread and the under... err um we'll be 120 lbs by the end of inspection on Thurs of the UTC.

[razor95kds]

our team is trying to be underweight by 5 pounds so we can add counter weights so we won't fall over when lifting tetra or tetras.

[laditek]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

As of right now we're underweight.................but it's not fully assembled and all parts aren't machined yet so that may have something to do with it.

Well 50 1" holes that are 1/8" thick alluminum equals 1 lb
hope that trivia helps