Are You EPICALLY overweight?

[Mageofdancingdr]

umm... we've had weight problems in the past but this year we managed an epic in weighing. we were 40 LBS UNDERWEIGHT!!! that's right, we weighed 80 pounds at prototype. we considered what to do with the extra weight, some ideas that were thrown around:
- a toaster
- boombox for metallica
- a vice clamp (the idea was that we wouldn't have to carry it onto the field)
- full sets of plate armor or chain mail (too heavy)
- various limbs of team members.

yeah, fun day.

[Lowfategg]

112.6 lbs

Anyone have 6 lbs of lightening hole chips we can use?

[Tom Line]

3 days ago, we were 30 pounds under weight, and projected ourselves at finishing up at around 110 lbs.

Yesterday at noon, we weighed our robot, and we came in at 120 lbs without everything on board.

This morning, at 12:15 AM, we weighed ourselves again and came in at 110.5 lbs without a couple components, meaning we think we can make weight.

[Jonathan Norris]

Take a good look at your design and you will be surprised how easily you can get weight off, we got 10 pounds off in 5 hours yesterday.

[thefro526]

If you're really desperate for big weight savings start looking at places that you doubled up motors. I know last year we weighed in a 120.1 - 120.0 all season and if worse came to worse we could've always pulled the extra CIM out of our drive.

And if you're really desperate, start trimming those bolts! I know on our 'bot we could lose a half pound easy if we cut the excess threads off of every bolt.

[Dick Linn]

Overweight? Install some of these:

[hiimcristhian]

Well in our case since we were epicall underweight last year... we thought that we wouldn't be over this year which means that we got cocky and now we are barely making the weight limit after "swiss-cheesing" the robot a bit, let's hope that the robot doesn't eat anything while being shipped

[rsisk]

Our robot went on a low-density, swiss cheese diet last night, if you know what I mean ;>

[The Megan 2207]

We lost 34 pounds in one day by switching from massive 1/4" aluminum plates to lexan for our shooter.

[Abra Cadabra IV]

Last year we came in at about 5 pounds underweight after everything was built and put on, so we didn't think we'd have a problem this year.

Wrong! At the start of Thursday we were 20-30 lbs overweight. So we swiss-cheesed our conveyor mechanism and everything else that wasn't structurally important, swapped some of our aluminum speedrail for PVC, removed 2-3 lbs of excess wiring, took off some of the lexan armor for our control system, switched some steel components for aluminum, swapped the door on our hopper for something waaaay lighter, and removed 8lbs of unnecessary support for our control board. Now we're at weight!

[Akash Rastogi]

Take out cRIO modules yo!

Yes, this is permitted (except you cannot remove the module in Slot #1, to preserve the battery monitoring function). If you do remove unused modules from the cRIO Mobile Device Controller, we highly recommend that you use the spare port covers provided with the controller to cover the exposed connections at the bottom of the cRIO to prevent foreign debris contamination.

Straight from the GDC

[Koko Ed]

I'm epically overweight but it's so far so good on the robot.
More will be revealed on Monday, I suppose.

[scirobotics]

Suprisingly our robot turned out to be 3 pounds under the max...and i don't know how many of you have seen our frame, but it is solid.

[seannoseworthy]

We are 20 pounds under weight so we are going to add some propellers

[JOhnch181]

We are 20 pounds under weight so we added a big steel (at least 12") sprocket . and some lead ballast. In 04 our team was 40 pounds over weight a week before ship.