22-04-2004 21:02

Tytus Gerrish

Re: pic: 7 lbs overweight

um... it was exactly 7.3 LBS i was there when it got weighed. It was funny i only said it to everybody i knew like 100 times.

22-04-2004 21:35

Ryan F.

Re: pic: 7 lbs overweight

How did you end up cutting the weight.....looking at the robot....it seems like you had quite a task for yourself.

22-04-2004 21:47

Pin Man

Re: pic: 7 lbs overweight

Good thing for Tj this year we did not have a weight problem... We were about 3 under... How did you manage to cut weight like that??? There is not much room to cut from the looks...

22-04-2004 22:53

Ryan Albright

Re: pic: 7 lbs overweight

I will tell you how they cut the weight....the minute they got weighed they called me and Ultimatep over and we started helping htem find stuff to take weight out of and they ended up putting on a smaller arm

22-04-2004 22:59

OneAngryDaisy

Re: pic: 7 lbs overweight

man, this brings back good memories.. in chesapeake we were 15 pounds over at 6:30- and the pits closed at 8:00. yeah, we made weight and didn't lose any of our functions... although we lost so much robustness and quality. next year the first thing we're buying is a reliable scale... ha

22-04-2004 23:07

Pin Man

Re: pic: 7 lbs overweight

We use speed holes... In 2002 we lost like 3 pounds with many 1 inche speed holes... We had a lot of them and the robot was still unbelievable...

22-04-2004 23:41

Kevin A

Re: pic: 7 lbs overweight

We were 80lbs overweight back in 2002. We lost a whole drive system and were still over weight! Speed holes ahoy!

23-04-2004 00:25

Specialagentjim

Re: pic: 7 lbs overweight

Yeah, 7 lbs over is defiently not good at 5:30pm on thursday.

We switched part of the arm out with the spare one that we milled down quite a bit. Then we finally said screw it and took the atwoods off our 2 motor drive assembly. They were later re-added as we dropped the van door motor and a few other extra parts.
2 atwoods and gears = about 6lbs. It was close at UCF.

23-04-2004 02:27

suneel112

Re: pic: 7 lbs overweight

Back in 2002 (when I was a rookie freshman), one advisor designed a super awesome drive system for our robot. The unfortunate thing was that it was crab, and each system took about 20 lbs. Two systems of one chippewa motor each, and two systems with both a drill and FP motor each (only the drill ended up being used ) Anyways, it is the last day and a half of build season, and we were 20-30 lbs overweight. That year we went to three regionals. The first one, The Buckeye Regional (which I didn't attend), I heard that during half the matches our robot couldn't even move, because for weight we switched out critical components . We still won an imagery award. The Midwest Regional, our next one, the robot had one arm and could manipulate one goal instead of 2. It was still fast enough to take one goal out of Hammond's way, and for that reason, we won one match. We were the 24th pick by the 8th seeded rookie because of our cheering! In St. Louis, we switched out 2 of the front systems (chipps) and put in machine-shop-made casters instead. We had enough weight to make "Boiler Tape" to make our robot in our own end zone.

The moral of this VERY LONG story is that it is okay to take stuff off and have a somewhat messed up robot, because you still succeed, you learn from your mistakes, and, because in the long run, we're all winners

(sorry for that Cheezy, Mr. Rogers quote at the end)