We delivered our first presentation today for the whole class and provided everyone our progress from the previous weeks and the upcoming week's work we have ahead of us. The game plan was that I start the presentation off by giving everyone a gist of what the Spartan Superway was and why our team and the 12th scale teams were important to the success of Superway in general. Next, Angelo stepped up and provided the design specifications that we agreed on last semester. That information is found on slide 5. In addition to that, he let the class know about the biggest challenges we had for the upcoming semester. Kevin started talking about the manufacturing processes, the updated Gantt charts, and the team's budgeting for the upcoming semester. He also let the classmates know his progress regarding the 3D printed brackets and that all we needed to do to complete the bases were to weld them together. In conclusion, I ended up the dependencies and contingencies of the project and the issues that we needed to focus on in order to make sure this project is a success.
On Monday, the team met up and needed to address some of the issues that we had with the welder. Kevin was in constant communication with administration and Dan (from full-scale bogey) to ensure we were taking the correct course of action. Kevin and I took a trip to Praxair to retrieve a new tank of Argon for the remaining welds. After coming back and setting up the welder, I started and finished the welds necessary for the support structures. I encountered some issues during this process as I never found the correct way to properly weld these two components together due to the differences in thickness of the square tubing and the sheet metal. If I utilize too high of a current, the sheet metal would have a hole burnt through. However, if the current was too low, there would be no penetration of the square tubing. Even after completing 80 welds, this process was not mastered and still need to be cleaned up through other methods that will be looked into.
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