This week we started to reassemble the track and realized that many of the pieces do not fit together as they should. Each curved rail has a specific mate that it must match with. It has led to a very frustrating trial and error of trying to reassemble the track. Additionally, we are certain that many important pieces of the track are missing and will need to be rebuilt. This led me to focusing on making headway on the track bender so that we can get the track back to working order.
This week we obtained all of the rails to be bent and started into the full swing of manufacturing our new curved sections. We have found out how to consistently get bends in our rails using a step by step process. We are following last years advice and having only one person (me) manufacture the rails so that there is not measurement bias or manufacturing differences between users of the track bender. We have begun receiving 3D printer samples from makerspace and found out that they are having great difficulties in getting us our orders, so we will need to revisit this.
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