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Making Bigger Waves
Thursday, December 19, 2002
by Beckie-Anne Thain

We started work on our underwater vacuum. We used epoxy putty to join three PVC fittings together and then screwed in three bilge pump motors. Next we cut out tops and bottoms out of yellow polypropylene, and sides out of clear polycarbonate, then screwed them together. We tested what we had created. It worked with power! Finally we turned some spacers on the lathe for the thruster nozzles.

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