Manufacturing

This week most of my team did not attend the weekly meeting as we were starting manufacturing of the route selection. The amount of time that we are able to use the ME 41 Lab room is within a very constrained time frame (12 - 3 pm). During this time we began working on the route selection by cutting a steel pipe to the appropriate length. After we faced the cut so that it was a flat face and then began boring the inner diameter of the tube. Since the material is steel, progress was extremely slow and we are mostly done with one side of one route selection tube. We did not finish within the allotted time which means we will have to return to the ME  41 lab to keep working on it. When we return we will fix the outer diameter of the tube to 70mm and the inner diameter of the tube to be 62 mm. After one side is finished then we will repeat with the other route selection tubes. We will also pressure fit the bearings in, and then install the route selection rotators. We still need to buy 3 extra caster wheels for the route selection. As of this Friday, I began welding the frame together but was unable to finish due to the lack of time that the Central Shop gave me access to their welder as they have many tickets that they still need to fulfill.