What's the weight limit on your scale?

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So I have seen a bunch of Scales made of wood and it makes me wonder, what’s the weight limit on those scales? Considering in the best case scenario 3 robots will be hanging on each side they should hold somewhere 720- 900 lbs.

We made ours out of steel and have tested it with ~600 lbs of mentor weight on each climb bar and 110 lbs of student weight on each end of the arm. So if I remember to carry the one and divide by zero… 600+600+110+110= 1420lbs
Almost 3/4 of a ton ain’t too bad. heck, we got 520 lbs to spare!

Really proud of the metal Fab team, See picture, They’re pretty proud too.

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That is such a great picture :slight_smile:

We are using a pull up bar in the school gym which can presumably hold a lot of weight. The dimensions are almost exact (it’s 1.5 inches taller but the radius is the same)

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We built ours to the wooden plans. Your steel one looks good. It almost makes me wish we had done that.

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It took 6 people to move it from the metal shop to the field, 4 to lift and the other 2 to keep the base from swinging.