Wednesday, February 15, 2017

2/15/2017 Blog #16

Hi,
this week we started marking all of the metals and have cut a few. We ran into a quick problem with dimensions but should be able to fix shortly. Another problem arose, however, and it is regarding the bending of the metal. Kevin from the Track Manufacturing Team took some of the cut metals home to bend, but the bending reacted differently from the previous metals. We have confirmed the metal numerous times and could not figure out why. Thus far, we have researched aging, heat treating, and length of metal, but cannot find anything that answers our dilemma. We will be sending an e-mail to CoastAluminum, VanderBend, and a materials engineering professor of ours to try and find out the answer. Also, we have asked the Solar Team to swap the older metals in storage with our newly bought metals, but even so, we will not have enough material - currently, waiting for them to reply.

Jez and AJ have signed up for a Tig Welding class, officially. Also, we will be working on the support post with the Solar Team today since the design they have seems top heavy. We also established a Gantt Chart for all of the subteams so that we all know what days each team will need to be done with their respective parts because we are heavily reliant on each other.

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