Blog Reflection

This is my last post, and just let me start off by saying i truly enjoyed this project and am glad Ms. Wenzell allowed me to do something so incredible and personally enjoyable. There was a lot of time and effort that went into this project and many things that were new and outside what I am used too. also in the fabrication process there was many things that did not quite fit right and instead of redoing the entire part we used creative solutions to fix the problem. My mentor and I collaborated on all aspects of this project and none of this would have been possible without his guidance, he is a great teacher and he did not even complete high school.

I learned a lot from this project, not all was welding. I learned about responsibility as I had meetings to keep while working around other things such as golf and night school. I also learned to manage my time better and that procrastination although used is not the easier way. Also I learned that if you are going to do something give it your all because you never know who will see it or what opportunities will present themselves from your effort. I also gained a wealth of knowledge about welding and can only hope one day I will be able to use my knowledge again.

There was a lot of calculations that had to be done and it was a bit of a challenge to figure these out out it was a lot of decimal conversions that had to spot on our else the product would not come out square/correct. I haven't had any math for about a year so it was difficult to get back into the swing of things and figure out the calculations. It was also difficult to make every weld consistent and acceptable, I had an extremely hard time stopping and starting again on the same weld and making it look all look like one weld. also heat was a big problem as welding creates so much heat that effects the way parts look and fit together. That said there was nothing me and my mentor could not figure out and fix.