During this week, presentations continued and groups finalized their designs. Many groups are running into manufacturing issues with the makers space water jet cutter being down. They discussed potential improvisations and how they will proceed. For small scale, we had a monumentous accomplishment of completely finishing all of the welding required and we can now focus on assembling the track bender.
This week we spent some time grinding the last of the welds and started assembling the track bender. We had several design challenges and some fit and finish issues, but ultimately succeeded in finishing the new track bender. The process of bending the rails is not as smooth as we had hoped but we do obtain successful bends. One of the challenges is that the caster wheels we are using are not strong enough to resist the force of the bottle jack pressing against them. These will eventually need to be replaced, but they should do fine for this semester.
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