Overweight!?

[Jon Stratis]

http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2010...-year-and.html

After discussions with the Game Design Committee I decided that, although Robot Ship Day must remain February 23rd, this year, all FRC teams will be allowed to hold back 65 pounds of their robot’s weight on Robot Ship Day. (That’s roughly half of the total weight of an FRC robot.) Teams may continue to work on the items they hold back and then hand deliver the items to their event. Watch for a team update coming soon.

As Bill just posted that yesterday, i expect the game manual will be updated with 65 lbs in today's update.

[Dick Linn]

I can well remember seeking out free machine shop services to put steel chain sprockets on a diet. Or a couple hours with an angle grinder and a cutoff wheel to spider-web a pair of 60 tooth #35 steel sprockets. Eventually, you try to get in the habit of weighing and estimating as you go.

[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).

[HazzardFuzzBomb]

Weirdly we are at about 65pounds, we were so shocked when we read it. Looks like someone's robot is getting a nice shiny steel exoskeleton lol

[dodar]

haha we weighed in around 118lbs

[Nigel]

67 lbs sans kicker at last weigh in... we're definitly going to be adding weight low down i think...