Thursday, July 05, 2007

Almost completed mold for upper shell

Did quite a bit for the past few days, well... i managed to help out only on Mon and Wed as i had to prep and go for shell interview on Tues. With the approval for usage of space granted on Friday evening, we went to work immediately on Monday.

As we had pre-cut the ribs into required shape previously, no time was wasted to knock up the assembly jig, which is now in the process of being modified into a mold. The top right picture is the ribs for bottom shell, as you can see, the alignment strings are still present. The 3/4 completed top shell mold is located at the far right of the picture.



The mold for the top shell can be seen more clearly in the rest of the pictures, with one of our smallest driver, kx, sitting in the centre of the top shell mold. She seems dwarf-ed by the top shell. The gentle curve will allow us to attach the solar arrays required.

3 rather tired team members are featured in the top left corner, with the gal in white a new addition to the team, joining us with one area as her FYP. More pictures will be on the way, now that we have the space to build stuff.

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