Week 7

We finished the assembly but ran into a little bit of a hiccup with the brazing. It won't work. Simple as that Jimmy is not experienced enough to make good welds and make it structurally sound. Therefore we are going back and designing a gusset plate to put at the joints. Hopefully that will fix the problem and we can test today or tomorrow.

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