Just wondering how everyone is doing with weight constraints. We are actually 8lbs underweight right now, which we can not believe. We are right around 112.
Oops, we have a problem! 12lbs must disappear…
Well, due to time running out we ditched our ramps giving us 40-45 pounds to play with. So we are about 43 pounds underweight last time I checked.
unfortunatly we are about 8lbs over. we need to do some serious cheeseholing in the already cheeseholded components
last check (with everything we could think of sitting on the scale with the bot), was about 105
We weighed in only a few pounds overweight but we can…we think that we can easily get it under before ship date arrives.
if you need a few pounds of leverage and cant bring yourself to make your frame any hole-ier try switching nuts and bolts to aluminum or sacrifice some bracing.
-adela
We’re 6 pounds over, with some serious speed holes to put in…
It’s such a fun process, weight reduction, isn’t it? :rolleyes:
15 under… where are those lead weights at??? 
Agreed, bring on the lead!
20 lbs under as of earlier this week. (9.072 kg for you international folks to compare to)
That was before guards and stuff for electronics of course.
we are about, oh 30 lbs over, were a rookie team and I am excited to drill some holes!
Last I heard, we were a pound or so over. We still have room to take out weight though.
Wow, that is a lot of weight to pull out with holes.
Just speaking from my past experience, you may want to think about pulling some assemblies or full components off. Unless you have a lot of solid blocks of aluminum that you can mill out, 30 lbs is a really hard target to reach with just cheese holes.
Best of luck though!
Currently our current chassis and weight estimations for parts not on the robot are putting us around 123-4 lbs total. For a 120 lbs robot. We haven’t done any cheeseholing yet and so i feel confident we can lose the weight. Good luck everyone with your weight issues (or lack there of)
Well, our chassis is currently over 70 pounds. We’re taking the entire robot apart and reassembling it in the next 3 days. Please wish us luck, we’re gonna need a little miracle here…
hey im on team 1124 and we are 10 pounds over weight but our problem is unlike other years we built with weight in mind so it is as light as it can be, so we dont kno where we are gonna get the weight but we will find a way ( sawzalls are our friends )
surprisingly we are extremely UNDERWEIGHT lets say barley hitting the 110 mark were going for 120
97.5 lbs., with two possible hands. Still need to get up around 110. Bring on the lead!
We weighed in a little while ago and we were at around 90lbs with battery! So we have about 35 or so pounds to play with!
We are at 120lbs, so we need to diet till we get to 110:yikes:
How many lbs can be taken of by speed holing (drilling holes in the frame), and is there any other methods of weight reduction?
Thanks,