Monday

This monday I ran the first operation on the wallet. This was pretty un eventful, but I ended up putting a nasty bend in the part. Because it is mostly decorational, I don’t really want to completely re do it because of it. I ended up not really realizing it till the next day, so I couldn’t really fix it.

Wallet first operation
It is so bowed

Tuesday

On tuesday I ran the second operation. I still put a decent bend in it the other way, but I was a lot softer with the vice, so it was considerably less noticeable. I’m not really happy with the bowing, but re doing it would be a significant amount of work.

Wednesday

Wednesday was a lot harder because I made the clip. This was a lot more difficult than any machining I have ever done. Sheet metal is difficult. I had to make my own stamp, in order to get the bend around the back to be good, and it worked surprisingly well. Then I just bent everything into the general shape and it was pretty good.

Finished Wallet
Overall, it did come out pretty well, but up close I can definitly tell where I made mistakes.

After school, I cleaned out the Tormach. It despretly needed it after the wallet. I used a lot of coolant.

Really full vacuum
All of these chips were basically the exact same, meaning someone completely filled the vacuum in one go and then didn’t empty it.

Tormach after cleaning
This is the cleanest I have ever seen the tormach.
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Thursday

Thursday I started on figuring out some of the basic electronics like motor controlers for the steering and braking on the golf cart.