Thanksgiving Weekend! and MS8

This week we finished our most critical module and i do have to say some fun pictures will be posted by brent or jackson coming soon. I was not able to meet with the group much this week so the credit for our finished MCM goes to Jackson, Brent and Vivek :) They were able to get access to a mill to finish our wedge head and that is what holds our module together so without them waiting for someone to not show up in the workshop really saved us especially since 450 people were in there and took all of the spots.

All of the CAD was finished and besides a little change in some of the dimensions we are finished.

Overall it was a good week for Barely Mechanical :) Pictures are coming soon!

Week 11/15-11/19_ MS7

So this week was a little stressful for everyone. Due to exams we were not able to meet as much as we wanted but we were still able to get three of our ideas approved. Our wedge head which is made out of PVC, the threaded face plate for our arm(made out of aluminum)---so that our arm is complete, and our second arm that is made out of PVC.

In the shop we welded the face plate to our arm that we made last week, we are then going to use the 1/4"=20 threaded steel rod to connect to our arm to lift the wedge up and down from the slot.

We had a malfunction in our 8-10am time slot today with the mill, so we had to start our wedge head over again- and it is not complete yet, but we are hoping that we will be able to finish it on Monday before MS7 is due.

A plus about MS7 being due on Monday is that we will finally be able to use the waterjet to make our wedge. All of the slots were taken until Monday so now we might have a wedge to show for MS7.

Pictures of our finished parts will be provided in next week's post.

Week 11/8/10

We started this week off with doing the motor lab. It took us two back to back sessions to complete but we got all of the data. We then completed the analysis a few days later and assembled the second planetary motor.

Also, we made our first part this week! The part we made is the arm of the wedge arm. We used the 1"x1" aluminum square tube stock to make it. After cutting it to length and drilling holes for where the wedge head will attach it was done.

Looking to next week we are planning on making the collar to hold the wedge arm, the wedge head, and the wedge itself. We have contacted Alro to order the remaining materials we need to make these parts. In order to machine these parts we will be using the waterjet, the mill, and the bending station respectively. After completing all of these parts we will have more than enough done for the MS due on Friday and we will have all of our parts for our MCM made for the following week. (In addition to all of this, we have the ME 250 exam on Tuesday)

Week 11/1/10-MS6

So today we finished the drawings for our MCM--we had to redo them because we didn't know how to print properly since we were not informed in lab how to format properly. After reviewing the lab tutorial we figured out how to format properly and were able to print.

We also finished our bill of materials list and determined that we will need to buy or trade material for several components. For example, an extra rack for the arm.

We will be meeting with our GSI, Mark, tomorrow at 11:20 a.m. in the 250lab for our 20 minute discussion. We hope that he will be able to help elaborate on our ideas.