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.