Track Bender and Bojo Tools - November 14-15, 2018

For the meeting on Wednesday, the team continued to work on the track bender. We discussed on the best approach on how we could build the system. There are two possibilities on the final design of the track bender:

1. For the metal rod that's manually turned and used to bend the aluminum bars, we will have both the threaded rods collared onto the metal rod used to build force positioned on top of the board.
2. One threaded rod will actually be positioned below to board. In this case, the pulling force would be more positioned towards the middle of the bending metal rod.

Brandon will be bringing drawings of the designs to the next meeting so  that we may present them to Dr. Furman.

The following day, the team met with Daniel Brolin at Bojo Tools. Daniel gave us great insight on how to further proceed with the project. He also gave us a tour of the factory and showed us how different manufacturing processes worked. He advised that for our brackets we buy some 4x4 plastic and just mill the parts. Since we do not need a huge amount of the brackets made, it might just be a cheaper route for us to hand make the parts. Also, it could save us some time instead of 3D printing all the brackets we need.