Hey Y’all! 
It’s ‘bout time I posted something.
When building, what are some weight saving techniques you use?
Feel free to include practical advice and/or more… extreme methods of weight savings.
I’ll start.
Avoid steel.
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Here’s some existing things:
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Don’t build obese robots that are overcomplicated.
I suffer from this with an all-aluminum 21 pound robot (Using lexan and nylon screws when possible).
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Just use less metal
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Just don’t build a robot. No robot, no weight.
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Don’t do something overcomplicated like a 6 motor to 6 bar lift, its really heavy (help).
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fill air tanks whith helium in stead of air. If you breath it your voice will also go high and squeeky.
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Me when I build 480 on 3.25", and then discover that it can’t reach top speed when holding a full mogo, come here and see that there’s no practical tips, then decide just to make the team’s operator deal with it and suffer