Mar
10
Quick and steady.
March 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Things have been going good for the deck group this week. We finally found a productive way to clamp down the skirt attach stips while the epoxy hardens: duct tape. When mentioned before, we turned it down because we thought it would not even come close to working. So we completed attaching all of the [...]
Mar
2
Speeding up again.
March 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Construction on the deck has been moving rather slowly lately. We had a lot trouble figuring out how to hold the skirt attach strips to the foam while the epoxy hardened. After attaching a few pieces of the skirt attach strip, our group decided to get a start on cutting out a hole in the [...]
Feb
9
Hull Updated
February 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It has been a while since I’ve updated the build log so I’ll do that now. I don’t have pictures now, but anything is better than what I’ve been doing.
The hull was assembled last Friday. We did put carbon fiber cloth in the center of the two layers of foam. I’m not sure yet what [...]
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 [...]
