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Originally Posted by dubious elise
So alternate pieces of steel were masterfully gas-welded on by one of our mentors to finish the slanted portion (we already had our electronics firmly in place and did not have time to completely un/re-wire our robot).
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This is an important point: don't use an electric arc welder on a robot with its electronics attached. That can easily become an expensive mistake. If you must weld, use a torch like they did. (And welding with a torch doesn't really work on aluminum. It oxidizes too fast without shield gas.)