What’s the smallest and densest part i can use as weight?

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I think this has been asked before but that was only in relation to V5 so…

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Vex flywheel weight, or battery.

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I would say vex v5 metal gears

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The category is VEX IQ General Discussion .

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Metal shafts (axles).

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I feel axles aren’t super heavy compared to other more dense things. Axles are very long, but used as a counter weight wouldnt work as well.

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Axles are most likely the best size-to-weight ratio. Meaning, if you somehow got the perfect amount of axle, at the same size of any other part, it would outweigh it. So technically, yes, axles would work as a good counterweight. (You’d need lots of them, though).

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I ended up using a combination of these, because only one didn’t do much, but thank you everyone!

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Thanks for clearing that up @76782AHighVoltage . Although our team is mainly v5 i would say axles.

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YESS. I was putting these on the front of my flop bot, I built it this week and the coach isn’t letting me do any ideas yet

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I used 3x6 plates and 1x6 beams and stacked them. Put it on the bottom

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Shafts. For both v5 and IQ.

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4x4 and 4x8 work as well.