The third presentation and final report rough draft were the
focus this past week, and will continue to be so throughout the week, and possibly
next weekend as well. Owing to Thanksgivings break and not being in town, no
work was done on the bender this week. However, as stated last week, bender
results that matched expectations gave great confidence that the work that we
have done thus far is going in the direction we need it to. Therefore, it seems
that we have overcome the greatest obstacle in our path, which was the creation
of a proper die to produce results exactly as we needed them.
The track improvement team has provided the team with some
updated information, as well as their expectations for next semester. They
informed us that they intended for us to create the corners for the improved
track, but were considering reusing the station sections from the previous
year. It so happens that work on the corner sections (in terms of dies) has progressed
the furthest, which is beneficial for us. Additionally, corner sections were
assumed to be potentially the most troublesome, given the bender type. Comparatively,
bends for the station sections are seen as simply smaller versions of the full
corner bends that were prepared for and tested, so all signs on work performed thus
far are positive.
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