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Under or over weight?

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11-02-2005, 10:34

Peter Matteson Peter Matteson is offline

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Re: Under or over weight?

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Originally Posted by Bentow

We are seriously considering adding cinderblocks to one side to compensate for the torque and because we have soooo much weight to play with.

I suggest steel. It's denser and easier to attach.

We ballasted/reinforced our robot with steel last year. We had plenty of weight to play with after removing the arm.

Pete

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