This week started off with the motor lab in our lab section. We weren't able to finish in the time allotted, but almost everybody else didn't either. Wednesday we tried to continue with our lab, but was unable to because all of the aluminum shafts were being used. We were required to come back in later that day and try to finish. After burning out a motor because a previous user had set the starting voltage on the voltage source too high, and having a group take our coupling, we were able to finish as well as get the extra credit. The lab report was written without any outstanding problems and was able to turn everything in on time.
Unfortunately we had signed up to do a lot of our manufacturing for our MCM on Wednesday and Thursday, but due to the unforeseen complications with the motor lab and not being allowed to have 250 team members in the machine shop, we were forced to do all of our manufacturing on Friday. Our team made sure to get to the shop when it opened and worked until we got almost all of the parts done. We will still have to manufacture after the exam on Tuesday due to an unavailability of the mill.
We ordered some material from McMaster on Monday, and received it on Wednesday. It is solid aluminum 061 bar-stock, .75"x.75" so that we may be able to mill it next week into the wedge component of our module. We used the laser jet, band saw, and a little bit of the mill on Friday. Now it is up to us to finish the wedge component and get through the exam on Tuesday.
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