Jan
28
Steering begins
January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The steering team has had some trouble getting the rudders constructed. We tried hot wiring complete parts out of 2″ foam. Not a success. Check out the surface finish.
We are going to try and get the rest done with fanfold foam.
Jan
28
Thrust Duct Beginning
January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The work on the thrust duct began earlier this month. First step was to cut the two plywood discs to the size specified in the plans. We did that by making a circle cutting jig out of a piece of 1×4 screwed to the router. The router was then screwed to aboard at the right [...]
Jan
27
Hot wiring the hull
January 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The students came up with a great contraption with the hot wire. In order to make the hot wire process more stable and predictable they clamped the hot wire bow to one of the tool cartsfrom the machine shop. You can see a picture of it here.
Here are two different students in the hull group [...]
Jan
27
Hull issues
January 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In working with V2 composites we have decided to add a layer of carbon fiber between the sheets of foam. They cal the product V-Web. This firced us to hot wire the basic shape of the hull before we did the vacuum bagging. This forced us to find a temporary way for fastening the foam pieces [...]
