Mech Onsite Winter 2021
- Catherine Cai
- Salman Rasheed
- Min Qian Lu (Deactivated)
Instructions: Please fill this out BEFORE the onsite check-ins
Date | Individual | Goals for Today | Progress / Updates | Notes and Concerns |
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2021-02-27 | @Micah Black | Continue battery assembly | Put potting compound on bottom side of 6 battery modules | Need to know how to use the Compressed air to clean parts / blow dust off them |
2021-02-27 | @Renzo Villanoy | Clean up | Cleaned up |
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2021-03-08 | @Renzo Villanoy | Cut foam core | Cut foam core |
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2021-03-17 | @Min Qian Lu (Deactivated) @Nikita Srivastava @Maciek Pajak (Deactivated) | Sorting chemical cabinet | labelled pre much everything in the bottom cabinet
| Mold release is officially expired, but worked for bulkheads, although will test on wheel covers |
““ | @Nikita Srivastava @Maciek Pajak (Deactivated) | Sealing additional side panels |
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““ | @Leif Blake (Deactivated) | Getting Daniel set up with tasks Working on Rims and pressfits | Didn’t have time for rims, sent email to Graeme asking for tips for press fits Met with Daniel to discuss safety hole drilling Added WD40 to the drill press, belt was stuck |
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2021-03-18 | @Leif Blake (Deactivated) | Cut carbon fibre as needed | Cut carbon fibre for clevises, got about halfway on holes for bolts. Will try to use flat boring bit tomorrow. |
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| @Min Qian Lu (Deactivated) @Aidan Lehal @Isabella Schneider @Daniel Yang | Onsite onboarding/prep work for Saturday | Gave brief molds intro Primed 1/4 side panels Checked laser cut nomex |
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| @Nikita Srivastava @Maciek Pajak (Deactivated) | Move, Sand, and Seal other 3 of 4 portions of 1 side panel mold | Completed to-do list for today - move, sand, seal for all 4 parts of 1 side panel Primed both wheel covers Carbon fiber, adhesive are cut out Tried laser cutting nomex: Min to check over it | Check with Min tonight about Friday’s tasks |
| @Salman Rasheed |
| Machined upright reinforcement (dynamics) |
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| @Renzo Villanoy | CC prep | Created stencil for rear elec base |
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2021-03-19 | @Leif Blake (Deactivated) | Finish holes in carbon fibre Try fitting tires using heat gun (get help?) | Got some more holes done, need to buy another spade bit Gave Rims another try, continuing on Monday when there are more people |
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| @Nikita Srivastava @Maciek Pajak (Deactivated) | Check Nomex Prime the other 3 of 4 portions of side panel mold
| primed all 4 components of the side panel molds Wheel cover molds have been primed
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| @Labros @Daniel Yang | Safety hole drilling (dynamics) | Drilled half of the safety holes to complete by Tuesday |
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| @Renzo Villanoy | CC prep | Cut fibreglass and peel ply Bought dial indicator |
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2021-03-20 | @Jens Dekker @Michael Hanley @Maciek Pajak (Deactivated) @Renzo Villanoy @Min Qian Lu (Deactivated) | Sand 1/4 or 2/4 side panels | Sanded 1/4 side panel |
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| @Renzo Villanoy | CC prep |
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2021-03-22 | @Leif Blake (Deactivated) | Tire mounting working session Make drawings for modified rack extension welding jig | Tried heating up the rims to give them more stretch, didn’t work. I think we’re gonna have to try to blow them up with fire. Made drawings for rack extension welding jig |
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| @Maciek Pajak (Deactivated) @Nikita Srivastava @Michael Hanley | Sand 1/4 side panels Touch up Saturday's side panel Sand wheel cover Check spray paints | Sanded most of one side panel Touched up Saturday’s side panel Sanded and touched up wheel cover Checked most (if not all) cans of spray paint | Labelled the spray paint cans that are no good/ran out bad and placed them at the front of the chemical cabinet. Wheel cover needs to be checked |
| @Renzo Villanoy | Check for aluminum sheet Bring in MDF | Brought aluminum sheet to bay MDF in sanding room | To cut MDF at home Gluing next week |
| @Aidan Lehal @Isabella Schneider @Michael Hanley @Min Qian Lu (Deactivated) | sand side panel that maciek and nikita were working on | sanding 150 full, up to partial 400 |
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2021-03-23 | @Leif Blake (Deactivated) | Meeting with Graeme to talk about press fits (hopefully, he hasn’t finalized a time lol) | Press fits (mostly) done on hubs |
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| @Maciek Pajak (Deactivated) @Nikita Srivastava | Organize sandpaper bin Sand side panel(s) Check wheel cover | Organized sandpaper Sanded almost all of one side panel Wheel Cover not checked | Sanded side panel and applied spray paint on overly sanded parts Don’t leave sanded molds in the paint room overnight, will mess with the finish quality Different spray paints dry at different times. |
| @Michael Hanley | To ask professor about glass and applying Loctite | Had a good talk He said to reapply Loctite |
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| @Renzo Villanoy | Trial run for gluing MDF | Glued 2 layers - 1.5hrs (Prep & Gluing) Picked up polycarbonate sheets | Learn how to vaccuum bag mold to cure Time can be cut in half with 2 people possibly Setting up a plan for gluing, cutting, etc. |
2021-03-24 | @Leif Blake (Deactivated) + Co-ops | Check fit of hub spacers on motor, then press dowels into spacers Dowels into hub nut torquing tool Hand off machining task of rack extension welding jig | Didn’t end up going in cause co-ops couldn’t make it, did schoolwork all day instead. |
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| @Renzo Villanoy | Drop off polycarbonate to Krew Check mold | Mission Complete Mold MDF looked slightly warped - suspicion that the mdf table is warped |
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| @Min Qian Lu (Deactivated) | Check on mold work | It didn’t happen |
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| @Maciek Pajak (Deactivated) @Nikita Srivastava | More sanding: wheel cover, side panel Help with Dynamics (Leif) | Maciek is waiting for testing results Min - mold work will stop for 72 hours. Any other area of the bay has been sanitized. No work session Thursday. Work session still Saturday. No touching molds until Saturday |
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2021-03-25 | @Leif Blake (Deactivated) | Start machining custom wrench (Leif himself) Hoping to get co-ops involved in dowel thing | Totally forgot about test today, didn’t make it in |
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| @Renzo Villanoy | Post Mortem of week. Will not continue with too much onsite | Reached out to Kitchener Fiber glass for inquiry |
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| @Michael Hanley | Glass Prep and remove loctite May get Min’s help or other people | Cleaned the glass w/Aidan and Min Picking up carbon fiber on Saturday | Confirm how much CF we have left |
| @Salman Rasheed | Machine tube inserts for @Leif Blake (Deactivated) @Leif Blake @Leif Blake If it’s not complete, might go to the machine shop on Saturday to finish it. Will bring materials with him home and bring it directly to the machine shop - or possibly ask to store it in the machine shop. | Finished centering each tube. 1/12 finished. Will complete this weekend/next Tuesday. |
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| @Min Qian Lu (Deactivated) | clear out paint room, move molds to sanding room | done |
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2021-03-26 | @Leif Blake (Deactivated) | Same, start machining wrench | Got started on wrench Found problems with fits |
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| @Michael Hanley @Renzo Villanoy | Got carbon fibre and adhesive film from cold storage | cut major pieces of cf and film |
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2021-03-27 | @Michael Hanley !@Salman Rasheed | Floor Panels (3:30 PM - 6:30 PM) | Completed CF cuts and it’s ready for the layup |
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| @Min Qian Lu (Deactivated) @Aidan Lehal @Daniel Yang | Side panel sanding (6 PM - 9 PM) | Fully finished 1/4 panels, other one in the sanding room needs some 320 grit before moving on to higher grits. Sent detailed message to the the co-op channel regarding next steps |
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| @min @Renzo Villanoy | Vacuum pump usage |
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| @Michael Hanley | Check for VR3 Package | It was there |
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2021-03/28 | @Michael Hanley | Cut nomex | Didn’t go cause skool is hard | Checked the Nomex in the bay and the only one that is big enough for the panel was the one used in the bottom panel layup but it is damaged/indented in some areas, will look into ulterior ways to avoid bad Nome (i.e. two separate Nomex pieces layup for layup) |
2021-03-29 | @Leif Blake (Deactivated) | Machining of custom wrench (hopefully finish) | Didn’t quite finish, messed up a bit but it’s salvageable |
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| @Renzo Villanoy | Finish prep Plan for molds | Cut flow mesh | Will need to borrow SDC vacuum pump |
| @Min Qian Lu (Deactivated) @Aidan Lehal |
| Hands on brainstorming (connecting side panel molds) Checked wheel cover mold |
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| @Nikita Srivastava @Maciek Pajak (Deactivated) | Sand wheel cover Sand side panel | Sanded wheel cover (sort of) Sanded Side Panel up to 800 grit | Wheel cover had a massive flaw that we had to rip out of the mold to fix, used epoxy and letting it dry to continue tomorrow |
2021-03-30 | @Renzo Villanoy | Cut all MDF | Brought in MDF but didn’t cut
| Need training for band saw Considering waiting for the 5 MDF sheets cause less cutting and gluing. |
| @Leif Blake (Deactivated) | Finish custom wrench Machine new dowels for hub nut tool Give rack extension welding jig drawing to co-ops | Ended up not getting much done, machine shop was quite busy and I didn’t get in until later than I wanted. Made some progress, but nothing wrapped up |
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| @Nikita Srivastava @Maciek Pajak (Deactivated) | Sand side Panel Bondo wheel cover Sand wheel cover | Sanded side panel down with 120 grit, will continue Bondo’d wheel cover Didn’t get to sanding wheel cover |
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2021-03-31 | @Leif Blake (Deactivated) | Same goals as yesterday | Finished custom wrench Didn’t need to make new dowels to fit in the hub nut tool. Brian hacked it by essentially crushing the top and bottom of the holes in the tool with a ball-peen hammer. This pushed more material inside, allowing a tight fit around the dowels. Then used locktight to glue them in. Handed off updated rack-ext welding jig drawing to coops |
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| @Maciek Pajak (Deactivated) @Nikita Srivastava @Min Qian Lu (Deactivated) | Same goals as yesterday Learn to use spray gun | Finished sanding side panel mold with 120 grit sandpaper, will continue with higher grits Finished bondoing the wheel cover and did some light sanding Brian taught us how to use a spray gun for priming |
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2021-04-01 | @Leif Blake (Deactivated) | Buy a new spade bit, get some more holes in carbon fibre |
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| @Salman Rasheed | Finish tube ends. | done |
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