Air in tires adding to weight?

[FrankJ]

Have you tried dumping the code from the CRIO? The bits don't weigh a lot, but they add up.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Your Lead Robot Inspector will determine if you need to lose weight and how best to do it. Letting the air out of tires is not even on their list of 'try this'. I can tell you that many teams have tried this method while at the scale and there was no movement between before and after. However, one of the best ever over weight stories involved four full rolls of gaffers tape that the team had used to raise the wheels. The tape stuck to the bottom of the robot when they came for final weigh in making the robot several pounds over without an LRI foot on the scale.

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

.... without an LRI foot on the scale.

I knew it! It's a conspiracy!

[jblay]

I doubt it will make any difference. Air is fairly light (hence the term light as air). Also if you do this and then re-inflate your wheels and that gets you over weight you are illegal, you may have passed inspection with your under inflated wheels but its still breaking the rules even if you don't get caught. You are better off speed holing your bot in many places

[MagiChau]

Air is a low density form of matter. Unless you compressed the air to an extreme level I would find a solid piece of matter a lot better to take off for weight reduction.

[Mk.32]

Thanks of the replies, I guess I will get that hole drill warmed up...

[Matt C]

1 word . . . helium.

[Joe Johnson]

FYI, at 35psi and room temperature, air weighs about 1/4 lbs per cubic foot (source).

So... ...yeah you better plan to save weight someplace else.

Joe J.