Today's tasks.

THERMOCOUPLE SET UP: Silvia will kindly help up and will provide extension cables and male connectors in exchange of teaching her the complete use of one of her thermometers. We just have to buy the females.
TOOL PROGRESS: It was finished @ 12hr.
MATERIAL FOR FSW AND FSSW: We have enough material for FSW. We need to check material available for FSSW, probably the thin bar Alvaro bought will do. We have to check its specs.
INMEC CONTACT: Gerardo is still in Mexico City, but they will provide the heat treatment service to us. We'll drop the tools today @ 17hr.
THERMO MANUAL READING FOR SILVIA: In progress...
MEETING WITH ANTONIO SILVA: We had the meeting to reschedule our taking the samples to his lab. The analisys will take place next Wednesday.
MEETING WITH DR. ROMERO: Everything goes as planned. He showed us a format for the final presentation. And will help us make our final report.

New responsabilities.

To improve our work Rod and I suggested the assingment of the tests we will perform to each of us, so we will be responsible to set everything up to make the tests. This doesn't mean we'll work alone, we can do things in teams or go all together to all places, but some of us will be responsible for that specefic kind of test. Man!! Did I get Across?? Anyways, the assigning will be the following:
A C JP - TemperatureTest.
JW R A - Residual Stress Test.
JW R A - Tensil Test.
R A JW - Bending Test.
C JP - Microstructure Test.
C JP - X-Ray Test (Phase change).
C JP - Porosity.
A JW - Roughness.
A JW - Hardness.

Where the letters in front of each test stand for our names.
Cheers.

Today's Tasks.

THERMOCOUPLE SET UP: Meeting with silvia Mtz was cancelled due to her unavailability, we'll meet up tomorrow morning.
MATERIAL DISCUSSION: we'll make at least 27 samples, select the best from each tip design and repeat the test to measure temperature and tensil and residual stress.
SETTING PLATES UP: Alvaro and I worked on them. We cut them and removed flash. They are ready for the tests.
TOOL MAKING PROGRESS: 25% by 15hr. Update: It broke @ 15:30hr. Tono will cut the part and start over.
INMEC CONTACT: They'll schedule amachine for our use.Update: Contact hasn't been made.
HEAT TREATMENT: Not possible since the tool is not finished.

Unfortunately the thread was too deep and it had a big space between the actual threads. And it broke.

We sort of got professional help to make the tool.

Alvaro working on the tool.

Alvero and I prepared the plates for the good tests.

Today's tasks!!

TOOL MAKING: People is actually ready and they'll start working on it.
THERMOCOUPLE MEETING: Silvia Martinez and her boss authorized he use of equipment to read temperatures. We'll have another meeting tomorrow with her to make the thermocouples.
HEAT TREATMENT/GERARDO: We'll investigate prices and times and Gerardos availability to help us (if possible) get the eat treatment done.
REPORT: Itis this one.
STRAIN GAGES: Rodrigo contacted Dr. Carlos Rubio and well have a meeting today at 16hr. Update: he'll help us we just have to let him know when the testing will take place.
CONTACT ALFREDO ESPARZA: He'll set up Justin's laptop to read residual stress. Update: Jstin's latop doesn't have a port to connect the reader.

Expenses.

So far we know:
thermocouple cable: 3mt = $83
heat treatment = $100 (one or to tools)
FSW Material
FSSW Material

CELEBRATION!!!

Second and third FSW. The second got stuck because of the slow rpm used. on the third one we used 3000 rpm.

More Celebration...

Celebration on our first FSW.

First FSW!! Went OK didnt it??

Side view of our best FSSW.

Best preliminar FSSW.

Prototype tool used in preliminar tests and after heat treatment, will be used again for FSW.

Preliminar tests... DONE!!

Sometime during the last two weeks we started making the tests. Now we have tests for FSW and FSSW. Pics are coming.

Cheers.

Meet the folks!!

Rod, Justin, Jerry and Alvaro. I was taking the picture...

First two weeks!!

First, let's introduce the members of the team:
Chuck Reyes (the humble owner of the blog!!)
Alvaro Arteaga
Justin Pour
Jerry Wong
Rodrigo Renteria

Since we forgot to write the things we did, this will be a small post. We'll elaborate on it as we remember.

This info is courtesy of Justin Pour.
Monday, July 4, 2005- Team and project assignments, getting acquainted

Tuesday, July 5, 2005 – Company tours, meetings with staff members

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 – Laboratory tour, general research, problem identification, meeting with Dr. Romero

Thursday, July 7, 2005 – Preparation of crude prototype, meeting with Dr. Mucino., meeting at In-Mec, preparation of presentation, material research, preliminary schedule made, logbook started

Friday, July 8, 2005 – Spot weld preliminary samples made, presentation finalized

Monday, July 11, 2005 – Linear welding samples prepared, tip construction research conducted, meeting with Dr. Romero

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 – Meeting with Dr. Mucino,

Cheers.

Willkommen!

Welcome to the official weblog of the SFW!! Here I'll post info about our progress and if everything goes OK the rest of us will post as well.

Cheers!!