During this week, the small scale teams were able to present their work thus far. The presentations were split up into three parts, which were the introduction, the model design, and the overall progress (Gantt) chart that we've made out for ourselves. During the presentation, we gathered a few ideas an worked to incorporate those ideas into our design. For example, Dan thought about incorporating a leveling system that that incorporates screwing into the concrete and allowing us to create a leveling system with three points on a plane that will level the entire system. Hopefully we are able to work on these designs moving forward and incorporate them when we start rapid prototyping.
This week, I focused my efforts on cleaning up some of the welded sections that I worked on last week. Within the square tubing, there is a slight rise that follows along the length of the tubing. This makes it impossible for these parts to slide into the support sleeves that we have already made. In order to finish up these components, I filed them down with a combination of using a Dremel tool with a diamond bit tip and Spartan Superway's file. The first image shows the excess metal that protrudes out of the inside of the square tubing. The next image shows that same protrusion grinded down with the use of the Dremel tool and shop file.
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