Weight Watching

[Ben_pharteen]

hey im on team 1124 and we are 10 pounds over weight but our problem is unlike other years we built with weight in mind so it is as light as it can be, so we dont kno where we are gonna get the weight but we will find a way ( sawzalls are our friends )

[Jaime65]

surprisingly we are extremely UNDERWEIGHT lets say barley hitting the 110 mark were going for 120

[Syncopation]

97.5 lbs., with two possible hands. Still need to get up around 110. Bring on the lead!

[Schnabel]

We weighed in a little while ago and we were at around 90lbs with battery! So we have about 35 or so pounds to play with!

[aksimhal]

We are at 120lbs, so we need to diet till we get to 110

How many lbs can be taken of by speed holing (drilling holes in the frame), and is there any other methods of weight reduction?

Thanks,

[Jim E]

Team 1523 checked tonight and we were within a pound or two over 120. But, another spike, wire, motor, some chain and sprockets need to be added yet! Break out the hole saws! It's going to be a loooong weekend.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by aksimhal

We are at 120lbs, so we need to diet till we get to 110

How many lbs can be taken of by speed holing (drilling holes in the frame), and is there any other methods of weight reduction?

Thanks,

Do the math....aluiminum weighs 1/10th of a pound per cubic inch.

Plastic weighs about half as much.

Steel weighs almost 3 times as much as aluminum.

Little holes will not lose you much weight. Holes in thin material will not lose you much weight. Holes in plastic will not lose you much weight.

Removing excess bolts will help. Replacing bolts with a smaller size will help. Replacing steel sprockets with aluminum, or turning down the hub diameter, will help a lot.

[Chuck Glick]

Dawgma 1712 is fully assembled and operation able, however we are WAY over weight . I'm talking 16 oz. people.

Yes it's true, 16 oz. = 1 lb.

Our scale is registering at 120.5, but it is up to a half pound off so we're gonna take off 1 lb. instead of a half, just to be safe.

Good luck to everyone and see you at Philly and The Championship.

[StephLee]

Depending on how much our ramps end up weighing...we're flirting with 110, which is what we're aiming for. It's going to be tight.

[EricH]

going for 120--last estimate I saw was 116. Changes have been made, however, and we were not entering the covering for our ramps. I have no idea where we are currently (other than that we are where we are supposed to be).

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by 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...

Good luck to you and your reassembling

We weighed ourselves about a week ago, and estimated for the final components and lexan that we were putting on, and came in at 118.9 lbs. Today, we weighed in at 130.9. 10.9 magical pounds apparently - luckily, we hadn't cut anything weight wise yet so we're currently cheesing things like crazy and reducing some quarter inch lexan to 1/8th or even 1/16th.

[wingnut1705]

Yesterday we weighed all of our components and found ourselves 17lbs overweight. We have gotten rid of some of the weight but we will probably remove one of our ramps.

[Dasistmeinmoped]

yesterday team 41 left wieghing 118.7 lbs withought alumalite(or not so light) and half of the pneumatics. Today we left with the robot basically finished weighing 114.8lbs. not a hole was cut.

yay replacing 80/20 with 1/8 inch angle!!!

[MasterZahn]

My team is just on the edge of being over and under. were at 119.8

[blaise]

we are barely "scraping by" 119.8/120 after cutting screens and the trimming the arm. i kind of feel bad beacuse our robot was made to be morbidly obese