Testing, testing, crash, explosion.

 

    So in the last post, I said we were building this thing out of scrap and ingenuity. Turns out we’re pretty low on scrap.

    A few weeks ago, we sat down with Chris Vandelaar, who guided us through the basics of using the tools in the machine shop without destroying anything or cutting off any fingers. Around the same time, one early Saturday morning, we cleaned out our shop, took inventory, and started collecting the pieces of the 2007 car, the one that broke off its back wheel hitting a rock, ran into some road kill kangaroo later that night, and still finished the 3000km race across Australia (albeit with a less than stellar placement).

    By late afternoon that Saturday the team was in pretty good spirits. Most of the key mechanical components were still there, and were mostly in working condition. The car should have been rolling at the very least by the end of our Monday meeting.  The electrical side was ready to start building the car’s high-power systems (the panels, batteries etc).  We’d also found a Hungry Jacks flag that we were looking to hang somewhere, and some awesome Hungry Jacks racing helmets. 

                Monday night.

    Who uses 7/16 inch bolts? Turns out that we couldn’t mount the wheels onto the chassis without some obscurely sized nuts and bolts, and the special glue that we were going to use to secure the back wheel had expired 4 years ago.

     Thankfully Imran and Tom, two of the alumni from the 2007 team, the one that MacGyvered motors out of belts and frying pans were able to come by the following Monday and point  us in the right direction.

    Unfortunately, a storm is coming. Or winter is coming. Exam season is coming.  We won’t be able to get much work done on the car until a few weeks into March but at the very least we should have the car rolling by the end of reading week.  Until then, I will be living under a rock studying diodes and transistors.

-Lundy

 

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