Tube bending setbacks

Today we tack welded the members of the rear back plane. All that is left is to fully weld the members together.

Unfortunately it seems that we cannot bend our tubes with the hydraulic press located at school. This is unfortunate as we cannot afford to lose any more tubes.

After the unfortunate incident, our options were to either buy a die set for the Tube Shark, have our adviser fabricate the die set, or sublet the work to a professional. We have decided to sublet the tube bending to a professional and luckily for us, our adviser knows someone who can help us with the tube bending.