Week 4 Update

This week we completed our initial prototype of our heat pipe. We switched our preferred material to Stainless Steel (316) due to the nature of it.  The copper pipe acquired from the shop was too thin to cut a pipe thread, and the thicker stainless was already available to one of our group members.  The stainless is a 1/2 inch pipe with an outside diameter of .840 in.  The pipe thread uses National Pipe Thread (NPT) standards.  The caps for the pipe were obtained from Fastenal and our also Stainless Steel (316).  Teflon tape will be used to secure the threads to stop any passages opening when testing our liquids.