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Well, I would recommend getting a replacement battery if you're using silicone to keep it form leaking, that's just not safe.

Anyway, my team decided to do swiss cheese form the beginning. We don't have a lot of weight issues this year, since we went with aluminum plates instead of extrusion this year (big difference in accessability and weight). Besides that, the only thing we cut down on weight is our towers for the elevators. As soon as we got those, we slapped them on the mill and designed out weight reduction (patterns, and our team number and school name). All in all, it was more succesful this year then previous ones when it comes to weight.