With our materials available, we were very excited to plunge right into constructing our blender apparatus at the end of last week.
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| Alessandra drilling the hole in the bottom of the pitcher. |
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Working on the rod that will be inserted through the ball bearing and the blender blade, connecting the wheel spinning against the bike tire with the blade.
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Attempting to sand the rod on the wheel axle for the blender apparatus. It was a lot harder than expected- sparks were flying!
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Sanding the piece of metal we used to make our blender blade in order to sharpen it.
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| Bending the blade. |
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| The finished blender blade! |
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| Using the Dremel tool to make a wedge in the nut on top of the wheel axle. |
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| Using the Dremel... |
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| ...the nail was aligned and fit in the wedge! |
We heard back from Lyndsey, one representative from GrupoFenix, about the stand. She felt that the group would prefer a stand that could be removed from the bike. Therefore, today we plan on moving forward with that design (with Estuardo's help). We also plan on finishing the blender today by bending the nail around the blade to hold it in place, and then sealing it all up using Epoxy.
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