The Perfect Shot Semester 2 Week 4

 This week was focused on learning different equipment necessary for our teams manufacturing process. The equipment learned and utilized are Metal Lathe, Standing Drill Press, Cold Cut Saw, and Threading Tapes. Once the equipment was proficiently learned we focused on machining die at a 1/2 " diameter to bend our circular tubing in the desired sizes for the rim portion of our design. We cut the material at 75" and 89" to have some extra material, this is due to the last few inches of the material not being able to be bent. The excess material will be cut and welded. Tomorrow on the 31st of January the team will aim to test 15 individuals on our build.

The pictures above show different stages of the manufacturing process for both machining the necessary die for our pipe bending tool and cutting the material to be bent.

 The team was able to bend all the material into the necessary shapes for 1x Aluminum 18" standard rim, 1x steel and 1x aluminum 22" medium rim, 1x steel and 1x aluminum 26" large rim. Some time was spent cleaning the mess we made in the shop and putting tools away. We are proud of the way the material was able to be shaped via the dies we machined. We foresee the medium and larger rims possible needing supports. If this is the case we place on welding metal to the internal sleeves and the actual rim for support. We plan on returning to Adam's Business park to weld the Aluminum builds together to have an additional material. This material will be utilized to test more individuals on separate basketball hoops by making a simple exchange of the standard rim.

The top picture depicts the final guide die we machined with the assistance of Wes. The middle two pictures show the bending process to make the circular shape of the rim. The last photo shows the 5x rims after the bending process was completed.