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This week I resumed work on the light. I started by epoxying the magnets into their slots on the bracket. After ensuring that they wouldn't move, I attached them to the magnets on the back of the light. This however did not completely keep the light attached to the gooseneck if you moved it around, so I needed to create a new bracket that didn't use magnets.

Instead of using the magnets to attach them to the back, I instead decided to stick the bracket under those magnets to keep it in. After designing that, I cut the top and bottom of the bracket on the water jet. The premise of the design slides one half of a bracket under the magnets on the back and screws into the top half, holding the gooseneck on. After cutting the holes for the screws, I tapped the holes on the bottom one to thread them.

After testing out this new bracket, which did hold the light well, I found a different problem, the gooseneck couldn't support the weight of the light, and if extended all the way, would cause the light droop down. So I'll find a solution for that.