[Orominuialwen]

I released the magic smoke for the first time in a very unusual way several weeks ago. A friend and I were drilling holes in spring steel (used for deploying our ramp & platform) with a block of wood clamped underneath it for stability. The spring steel and wood released the magic smoke on every single one of the eight or so holes we drilled, but fortunately spring steel can still function just fine without its magic smoke.

Unfortunately, spring steel also feeds on the blood of Mechanical Team members, which we can attest to by all of our sliced fingers. We actuallly ended up briefly running out of bandaids in our first aid kit, that spring steel was so hungry.