Overweight!?

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Dick Linn

Eventually, you try to get in the habit of weighing and estimating as you go.

That's never stopped us from going overweight...

[Dick Linn]

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

That's never stopped us from going overweight...

But then you can at least estimate the size of the drills you need to hog out holes.

[rsegrest]

91 lbs with battery...when we weighed the battery it listed at 14 lbs so we figure we're at 76 - 77 lbs...first time we've EVER been this far under Kind of scary though when you think about possible shoving matches!

[Jon Stratis]

We weighed ourselves tonight - 82.5 lbs. We still need to add:
- cRio
- kicker assembly
- hood/roll bar

We figure with all that, we're still going to be 10-20 lbs light. Which just means we get to use some steel plates again to help position our center of gravity (when the battery is included, we suspect it will be slightly to the back as it is now).

[Kage]

My teams robot is 99% done...and 15 pounds under weight
we are probably going to add some random chunks of metal low-down in the chassis to help with the CoG

[Tom Line]

It is far more efficient to start lightening any steel components you have first. For us, the only appreciable amount of steel we use is in the trannies.

After that, see what you have that you can simply remove or cut off.

After that..... well I hate cheeseholing. We burned through any number of hole saws and drillbits in '08 trying to get down to weight.

[The Megan 2207]

For once we're actually underweight! Last I heard, we were at 65 pounds, but we're expecting to be 80 pounds or so (and this year's robot will FINALLY be smaller than me! ).

[Chris is me]

We are way under, no more than 100 pounds. 120 is not our concern at this point... 65 + removed unmodified COTS items is.

Half of the crate is going to be stuff that can be used as ballast. I wish we weighed more... you'll never hear me say that again.

[dmlawrence]

We lost 10 pounds in the last two days...

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by dmlawrence

We lost 10 pounds in the last two days...

Did you mis-place your cRio?

[Jared Russell]

We were at 114.2 last night, with about 5 lbs of parts left to go on.

[killerofall]

My robot is going to need lead blocks- we are at 90 pounds and pretty much done. we have now foregone aluminum in our construction so that we have more weight...

[buildmaster5000]

We were at about 80 before we added our latching mechanism hopefully all the other stuff that will ultimately end up on the robot will not put us overweight 10 lbs like last year

[Smoores]

Well, its a heck of a lot better than our rookie year, where we showed up at the competition weighing 150 lbs. This year we are weighing 100 lbs, and its done. So I guess we can actually use those 25 lb lead weights we had.

[Hastypickle]

Our robot is 100 lbs and we are 99% done. We first checked the weight last Monday and we were at 86 lbs then. We were so happy that we were so much under.