Week 9 4/17/2018

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Today we continued construction on the Trebuchet. Although we do not have the proper materials to build what we want to we are going to try our best to produce something that works. Our arm is going to be a little to thin so we are going to have to reinforce it with smaller pieces of wood. Another problem we are running into is finding an axle that will not break and fit into the hole that we drilled into the Trebuchet.

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