How to lose 6 pounds in 8 hours

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Originally Posted by Fritztopher

6 pounds? That's nothing. Two days before ship in 2005, we found out we were 60 pounds overweight.

Sounds a lot like 868 last year. The Sunday before ship, we weighed our robot and we were something like 30 or 40 pounds overweight. We essentially remade our shooter wheel in the matter of a few hours. Unfortunately, it sorta threw the alignment off - the curve was designed for the larger wheels.

This year I asked our mechanical lead several times during the build season, "If we had to cut weight, what would we take out?"

Our mechanical lead made sure that we weighed the robot at least once a week, and we weighed every part that we made before it went on and kept track of it.