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Small Scale Track - Tyler - October 3

This week the Small Scale Track (SST) team met with small scale controls and small scale bogey to further our plans.  We split off into our respective sub groups and SST decided to add support brackets to each turn section of the track.  Most of the binding and failure happens here and we found that holding a bracket in this location fixed a lot of our issues. One concern we had with this bracket is the play that the wheels have in them during the turns.  To deal with this issue, the curved supports will be widened by 0.5".  The 3D modeling of this part has started.


 We discussed the option of meeting with one of our sponsors to get injection molding done and decided that if we were to go with injection molding that the track brackets were the best thing to get injection molded because they are the most mass produced item in our design and only one mold would be needed.


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