When I was building R5...... way back, weight wasn’t a thought I had really considered. Making him as solid/sturdy as possible. So lifting him into the back of a car to attend events never occurred to me that it would become a thing lol.
Roll on a few years now and 'weight' is definitely an issue. As the legs are not to much of an issue, the feet and the shoulder hubs are. So I've made a start to reduce this weight some.
I marked on the hub an area that could be removed without structurally compromising them. I need to keep the holes for the bolts, to help prevent possible stress on the end fixings inside the wood.
Using my coping saw, I fed the blade through one of the holes already drilled in the hub.
It was a bit to late in the evening to try to use the jigsaw, hence using the saw. This took about an hour to cut out!
But the weight reduction results speak for themselves.
Weight was 936 grams, after removing the centre...... now 555 grams.
I just need to cut out the second hub next.
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