Weight Concerns

[EricH]

Originally Posted by paulcd2000

we're a new team, and so far I don't think anyone has realized that there is a significant weight limit. We're probably going to turn our bot into swiss cheese at the end.

You are at the end. Better find some metal removing tools.

I'm the weight guy for my team and have been for 4 years now. I weigh pretty much the entire kit every year. I then make an overhead weight with various control and ID components. Then I add to it as we add components. Our estimated weight is about 100 lbs right now, but we're missing some key items' real weights. We are already removing metal--some of our pieces have slots in them and I'm designing one system to be extremely conservative weight-wise.