thats what i did like 3 years ago before i did anything robot related i went and did a welding night course
not trying to give you bad habbits but on my earlier robots certain steel parts where 'borrowed' from there lol and i even got my lecturer to make the armour for my first ever robot TJ1 outta steel for me
so its worth seeing what u can get etc - cos they'll have loads of scrap they're not bothered about
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