Over the past week I completed the track bender design and pitched the concept to Dr. Furman. He had suggestions to the design which I implemented and redrew. I ordered the majority of the parts that we need, but the parts & pieces that are missing from the move have not been ordered yet. We have a meeting next Wednesday with Professor Muntz to see if we have machine shop access.
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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