Week 2

We're half way through week two and things are going well. Tomorrow we have our MS7 where we show our GSI three fully completed parts. We will show him him the pressfitbar, the armsupport1, and the base plate. The parts were well made with the waterjet, bandsaw, and mill and used wood and aluminum

We are on track to complete our MCM by Wednesday of next week, however we have a lot of work to do. In addition to machining the rest of our parts, we still have to finalize our design for the winch system and the initial dropping mechanism for the arm. Originally we were going to put the winch in the base plate, but with the 400:1 gear ratio it is too large and doesn't fit. We're going to try to put in on top of our ramp instead.

Here are some pictures of parts we completed since our last post:

Base Plate (laser cut) :

Arm Support (water jet):

Bearing Sheet (water jet):

AlumL (bandsaw, drillpress):

Left and Right (bandsaw, milled):

Before next Wednesday we have to finish the following parts:

arm (bandsaw, mill)
rod (sandpaper with lathe)
pressfit x4 (bandsaw, mill)
All parts for winch system