Kevin Brasil's Blog

Our group decided to present this week during the first round of presentations. With the presentations as well as other academic responsibilities we did not get very much fabrication work done this week. Hopefully next week we are able to get the support structure near completed.

This week has been all about working on the support structure. Our order of aluminum should arrive soon. Prepping the support structure has been rather time consuming. We needed to purchase a new grinding wheel for the grinder in the shop. Every piece needs to be de-burred, drilled and cleaned before they can be welded and finally set in concrete. This is what the current progress is (Before being set in a concrete form) They still need to be welded together. That is our goal for the upcoming weeks.

Our square tubing from Gorilla Metals was available for pickup this week! This is great because this allows us to start working on the support structure for the track. Since this was in I went ahead and took the opportunity to pick up all of the other necessary supplies that were available locally. We now have everything we need to begin working on the support structure.