Welding

Everything has been cut out and I have started to weld everything together. I should be done completely either today or tomorrow with my project. I am using a pulse mig bead on all of my weld joints because I think that it looks the best. A pulse bead is when you do not have a constant weld it is a bunch of small welds on top if each other that overlap and make a weld. I think that this type of welding looks the best.

In class jurnal

I would like to borrow the way he did his power point. He put pictures up and not much words on his slides and then explained what was happening in the pictures and I would like to do that.
A particular strength of the presentation what the playing he did when he was explaining ways of playing on the slides to really give us the feel of what he was trying to describe
I won't have anything to play so I will need to find a different way to get the evaluators involved in what I am examining.

Today I finished up drilling out the slits on the piece that will be screwed into to back of the tv. I used a drill bit to file out the metal that wasn't over on the inside of the three holes.

Today I started making the piece that will be put on the back of the tv. I measured the screw holes in the back of the tv and it was a 4" by 4" square. I used the same process as the piece that will be put on the wall. I plasma cut a 4 1/2" by 4 1/2" square and then blended the side smooth. Then I drilled four holes in a 4" by 4" square. I took the piece home last night and the holes did not line up perfectly. The top ones did but the bottom ones were A little bit low so today I started to make the bottom two adjustable so that it will fit no matter what. The holes I drilled were 5/16" holes so I made a 5/16" slit that was 1/2 long on both sides. I am not Sony with this I drilled three holes and now I need to get the remaining material out of the slots tomorrow and hopefully when I take it home it will line up and I will be able to screw it into the tv.

Drilling

Today I got the holes laid out and got them drilled I measured so that the holes would be centered and an inch and a half from the top and bottom and then drilled the hole

Red flag

Over the past week I have gotten a lot of work done in my project I got the piece that will be screwed into the wall cut out cleaned up and drilled the holes in it. I have spent about 8 hours working on my hands on. I had three journal entries on the process of making and cutting that put. For the next week I plan to compete the tv mount and get it ready to personalize it with things that I want to add. The project is moving along we'll and I should be done even before I had planned. This will give me a lot of time to customize it and paint it well so it looks really good when I am complete. I have had a mentor meeting and we talked about how the project is coming along nice and what work I got done this week.

Cutting and blending

Saturday I cut what I drew op and it came out really nice. I cut it with a hand plasma so the cuts were not perfectly strait so once I was don't I had to take a variable speed grinder and a blending disk and blend the cut marks down til they were smooth. After that I used the blending disk again to make is finger friendly and got all the sharp edges off and rounded them. Tonight I need to go and pick up two skews that are big enough to hold the whole tv mount up but not too big so it will split the stud in the wall and ruin it. After I get the size screws I need I will k ow how big of holes I need to drill in and be Able to lay all of that out and drill it tomorrow.

Lay out

I started in the part that will be screwed into the wall today I got it all layed out and drew the lines that I am going to plasma cut out with soap stone. First I cut the 8" by 6" 1/8" rectangle out of a sheet of metal then I drew in the curved lines so when I am cutting with the plasma I can follow the lines and make a good cut.

Metal Arrival

Finally today the metal came in. The metal came in at a late time in my ship hours today so tomorrow I will be able to get started. Now that the metal came in it should not take me very long to make the mount. The project should move along very quickly. I am very excited because of how long I have had to wait for the metal to come in.

Red flag

Over the past week I have work on my project but I have had a set back of the metal order getting messed up. I have been just waiting for the metal to arrive. I am having a mentor meeting today. I plan to tell her about my frustration about the metal order getting messed up. I only had two journal entries because what I had planned for the week got messed up by the metal not coming in. My plan for next week when the metal comes in is to get started and work a lot on it because of the shortened time I have to work on it.

The metal

There was a problem with the orders at the metal company and they got tons of orders messed up so they said that the order is scheduled to come in Monday of next week. This has been pretty frustrating because I can't do much on my tv mount without the metal. It has been a major set back on my project so now I do not have as much time as I thought I would to make it. I will be cutting it close with time but I'm certain that I can still get it done with the time that I have.

Holding on to Comfort

My project involves a lot of welds on it. The best way to weld is to use tig but for my project I am using a more comfortable form of welding and that is mig. Mig welding is the easiest type of welding to do, to make look good and, to do at awkward angles. This is something that I am sacrificing to hold on to comfort. Tig would really be challenging to do on my project. I professional welder would use Tig but there is too much room for error for my to use tig and I want the welds that everyone will see that comes into my room to look good. So that is why I am staying in my comfort zone and using mig instead of tig or my project.

Red flag

This week I spent 8 hours on my project. About 3 hours of research. 2 of class and mentor meetings and 3 of hands on work. For hands on work I used a stud finder that ms. Freeman let me borrow to try to find a stud and that didn't work because my walls are made out of wood not Sheetrock. So I had to do some research on how to find a stud in a wood wall and I could buy.a whole different stud finder but instead of doing that I am just going to use a small nail close to the floor to find the first stud and measure out from there. The research I did was how to find a stud behind a wooden wall. I also did a lot if studying for me test in welding witch will help me with my project with the knowledge I gained about the field of welding. I had a mentor meeting and during it is when I got the stud finder and we talked about how it worked and how I had a wooden wall so it might not work. We also talked about my past week work of the new metal I had to order and my test that I took this week. My journal entries this week were about the stud finder because I did not have any shop time due to the test. I was in class this week I did not have to use my journal because I was late to class and when I got there we were just discussing how everyone's project was going. My fulfillment of the WISE requirements was pretty good because although I did not have much shop time I still found ways to move forward in my project instead of just coming to a halt. My play for the next week is to get the metal in that I for ordered and get to work on building it because shortly after I have the metal I should finish the mount pretty quickly.

Stud finding

Because the wall that I am going to be hanging the tv mount on is made out if wood the traditional stud finder that ms. Freeman let me borrow did not work. I have been doing some research in finding studs and I will need to find the very first stud and then measure out 16in in between each stud and keep going till I get to where I want. I am thinking that the only way in finding it is with a small nail very close to the floor where it will not be noticeable.

Stud finder

In my room I do not have traditional sheet rock on my walls a have a type of wood panelling. I know how to find studs in sheet rock but I was not sure how to find them with the wood panelling I have in my room. So my mentor let me borrow this stud finder and tonight I am going to see if I can find a stud around where I want to put the tv mount. The stud finder seems pretty simple to use so I do not think that it should be too hard to find one.

Red flag

Over the past week I have work the required 8 hours on my project. Hands on this week I did a metal order sheet that I had to make for the new model that I made. I also made a cut list of the new metal that I am going to order. I met with my mentor and we talked about the new design that I drew up and the metal that I ordered so that I could make the new model. I had two journal entries because my project came so somewhat of a halt because I am waiting for the new metal that I need to come in and next week in my welding class I have the welding regents so I am spending a lot of time practicing for that. This can also be helpful to my project because I am getting a lot of practice on the welds that will be needed on my project so when i start welding on my final project the welds will look really nice. I was in class this week. During class we got an assignment to partner up with someone and do some research for them. I am partnering up with mike so I will be doing some research on how to make a ring. My plans for the next week are hopefully getting the new metal in that I need to make the new design but this can take A little wile because they will only deliver it when the order is over 200$ so I have to wait for the boces metal order to be over 200$ this doesn't take very long we normally get a shipment of metal every week so hopefully it will come in by next week.

Welding regents

Next week a boces we take the welding regents. So most if the time I spend at boces(when I do my hands on) I am practicing for that. This works out good because right now I am waiting for the metal to get delivered so this gives me time to practice for the test.

New metal

Due to the new design that I drew up last week I did not have all of the metal I needed from the when I got metal the first time. So I made a new metal order list and a cut sheet today. Now that I have that done I just need to wait for the new metal order to come in so that I can continue with making it.

The weekend

I've been out of town all weekend so I could not work on my project but starting tomorrow my project should move along pretty quickly.

The shop

This is the shop that I do my hands on work for the tv mount. Everything that I need for the project is available in this shop. There are some more specific tools that are more important that I will blog about also.