Today was yet another productive
day for the EV J-term. We started the day off with some welding and cutting
pieces for the mounts. Alex and Max got some hands-on experience with the
mig-welder, and I got to say that I personally wasn’t up for even trying. It
requires some serious skill to do it perfectly. You have to be able to maintain
a straight line with consistent pressure, which isn’t easy to do wearing a
welding mask. That being said Max and Alex did start to get better at it with
some practice.
Meanwhile,
the rest of the group was busy cutting steel for the mounts and grinding it out
to have solid pieces with clean edges. I personally found cleaning the edges
off easier than cutting a full piece. I say that because it was a little bit of
challenge for me to maintain a straight line while cutting the steel.
After lunch
we picked up the battery box that we had sent for fabrication earlier this week.
I was sure that Alex and I had the measurements and the design right when we
sent it for fabrication, but I was still a little nervous. To test it out we
placed it in the trunk and checked if it was within the parameters created by
the frame of the car. I breathed a sigh of relief when the box was perfect for
the amount of space we had. Then we moved to cutting the steel plate in the
trunk off so we could drop the box in. Following that we gathered around the
car to discuss which way would be the best to mount the box onto the car. We
all had different ideas that worked, but we wanted to go with what would work
best, not just easy or fast. So we decided to do several mounts to the frame of
the car to make it as strong as possible. This led to our following task which
was cutting and welding the mounts.
Overall we
all feel like this J-Term is headed in the right direction. We are making good
progress and are on schedule to have the car running by the end of A-Term.
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