Week 26 Progress (2017-5-3)

Vander-Bend has not emailed us since April 21, though Kathlyn has sent follow-up emails. At this point, if they still take 3 weeks to fabricate, we will not be able to manufacture the column stub in time for Maker Faire.

Claude has made much more progress on his model, since he was finally able to laser cut his parts. He spent a lot of time redesigning the parts for the laser cutter due to minimum spacing requirements, configuration adjustments, and adding a new part. He also made a newer version of the SOLIDWORKS model the whole assembly (minus the footings). More images related to this can be found on his blog in the post titled "Back on Track" and "Approaching Completion" at http://claudemichel-spartansuperwayblog.blogspot.com/

Kathlyn has been looking for PVC flanges online while Claude has gone in person to a few hardware stores. These flanges will serve as our footings for our entire architectural model. For Claude and Kathlyn's models, which use PVC as the column outside, the base diameter needs to be 1". For Winter's, which uses a slightly larger size of square-based wood, the base diameter needs to be 1 1/4". The flange would then be attached to some stock wood found in the Superway Shop.