Weight Watching

[AndyB]

Just wondering how everyone is doing with weight constraints. We are actually 8lbs underweight right now, which we can not believe. We are right around 112.

[Mandi_|<o>|]

Oops, we have a problem! 12lbs must disappear...

[chris31]

Well, due to time running out we ditched our ramps giving us 40-45 pounds to play with. So we are about 43 pounds underweight last time I checked.

[ewankoff]

unfortunatly we are about 8lbs over. we need to do some serious cheeseholing in the already cheeseholded components

[MrForbes]

last check (with everything we could think of sitting on the scale with the bot), was about 105

[AChastain]

We weighed in only a few pounds overweight but we can...we think that we can easily get it under before ship date arrives.

[Adela]

if you need a few pounds of leverage and cant bring yourself to make your frame any hole-ier try switching nuts and bolts to aluminum or sacrifice some bracing.
-adela

[K.Porter]

We're 6 pounds over, with some serious speed holes to put in...

It's such a fun process, weight reduction, isn't it?

[Jonathan Norris]

15 under... where are those lead weights at????

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

15 under... where are those lead weights at????

Agreed, bring on the lead!

20 lbs under as of earlier this week. (9.072 kg for you international folks to compare to)
That was before guards and stuff for electronics of course.

[Pelicano234]

we are about, oh 30 lbs over, were a rookie team and I am excited to drill some holes!

[KTorak]

Last I heard, we were a pound or so over. We still have room to take out weight though.

[K.Porter]

Originally Posted by Pelicano234

we are about, oh 30 lbs over, were a rookie team and I am excited to drill some holes!

Wow, that is a lot of weight to pull out with holes.
Just speaking from my past experience, you may want to think about pulling some assemblies or full components off. Unless you have a lot of solid blocks of aluminum that you can mill out, 30 lbs is a really hard target to reach with just cheese holes.

Best of luck though!

[robotguru1717]

Currently our current chassis and weight estimations for parts not on the robot are putting us around 123-4 lbs total. For a 120 lbs robot. We haven't done any cheeseholing yet and so i feel confident we can lose the weight. Good luck everyone with your weight issues (or lack there of)

[Beth Sweet]

Well, our chassis is currently over 70 pounds. We're taking the entire robot apart and reassembling it in the next 3 days. Please wish us luck, we're gonna need a little miracle here...