How Much Does Your Robot Weigh?

[BrendanM]

Curious as to how much this year's robots weigh considering that many of them are so small.

[MechEng83]

99.5 lbs as of last night.

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

112.3lbs

you should create a poll

[BrendanM]

Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU

112.3lbs

you should create a poll

I did, you guys replied too fast!

[BrendanM]

Originally Posted by MechEng83

99.5 lbs as of last night.

Please fill out the poll, just put it up.

[JesseK]

Ounces overweight. Going to replace some steel bolts with aluminum in the wheels we got from Amazon, so that'll solve it. Easy.

[sagi34]

Is it just me or 254 troll every poll? they said they were going to do less than 10 points in another poll, in this poll 3 team members voted for over weight.
waiting for release video.

[BrendanM]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Ounces overweight. Going to replace some steel bolts with aluminum in the wheels we got from Amazon, so that'll solve it. Easy.

I'm no expert but if you have to take off only a few ounces I would recommend a hole saw and a drill. Since you've already bought the bolts you should defiantly use them but you should put them in the places that have the least stress, wheels are not the best spot.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Ounces overweight. Going to replace some steel bolts with aluminum in the wheels we got from Amazon, so that'll solve it. Easy.

Why not just shake it a little bit? If something comes loose and falls off, it probably wasn't that important.

Probably.

[Harman341]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Why not just shake it a little bit? If something comes loose and falls off, it probably wasn't that important.

Probably.

Just drive over the rock wall a couple times and you'll be fine

There's always 4-5 lbs of dead weight on a robot. The hard part is finding it.

[Michael Hill]

Before the season started, I budgeted out 98 pounds for our robot (with 22 pounds margin). We weighed in around 87 pounds just before bag...That's without our climber though. It turns out, our shooter was <6 lb even with a flywheel (13 lb budgeted). Drivebase ended up being around 40 pounds with 30 pounds budgeted (didn't expect 8" pneumatic wheels before the season).

[GeeTwo]

A bit shy of 100 pounds estimated (We weighed the main chassis but we are still waiting on pneumatic cylinders from Bimba, so our launcher and pickup will be in the withholding bag). We also have about 7# of steel ballast we can bolt on in about two minutes (holes pre-drilled in both ballast and robot). We sweated frame perimeter (119") and fitting under the low bar more than weight this year.

[bEdhEd]

117.25 lbs. We had the design for a scaler, but not the weight for one.

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Why not just shake it a little bit? If something comes loose and falls off, it probably wasn't that important.

Probably.

Funny you say that - there IS a 0.5" long #10 bolt rattling around in one of the drive train rails. We've tried magnets and a few other things to get it out via the 3/8" or 1/2" access holes we have at various spots along the bottom of the rail. At this point I bet it will find its way out sometime during the season.

Originally Posted by BrendanM

I'm no expert but if you have to take off only a few ounces I would recommend a hole saw and a drill. Since you've already bought the bolts you should defiantly use them but you should put them in the places that have the least stress, wheels are not the best spot.

The aluminum bolts won't see the stress of the robot weight/etc - they hold the two sheet metal halves of the tire rim together. Lightening holes in general are taboo on our team - it's either trussed ahead of time, or we find other ways to lose weight. We powder coat 100% (for better or worse), so the finished look matters. We run our team like a small tech company, so I get it.

[BrendanM]

Thanks to everyone who answered!