This last week was Great! I spent most of the week either reading Owners/Operators Manual for the Bobcat trying to understand what all was happening with the group assignment (travel motors,ETC.) or working with Logan on the Forklift transmission. Ending the week today with a trip down to Kenworth in Renton, this was awesome!
The group assignment went well. I feel that together as a group through our own individual research and group discussion we really came to understand what was going on with the travel motors from beginning to end. I know that without the teamwork and especially the class discussion I would still have a few questions.
Now the Forklift transmission project I have been working on with Logan has gone good. We have finished cleaning almost all of the parts and have begun to reassemble the transmission. When it came time to put the retaining rings back in the clutch cylinders we had to fabricate our own tool to use in the 100 ton press in order to get the snap rings back on, this was fun. Can't wait to get back at it.
I ended the week today with a trip to Kenworth, wow. I was very impressed with what I saw today. Whole trucks being assembled in hours. I have never seen anything like that and left there in awe. Thanks again Tom and Jeff for making that happen.
Week 7
Hours 26
Monday, May 20, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
I Don't know why last weeks post(week 5) didn't get posted, I'm a little upset. I had a great week, It was absolutely awesome getting to go down to B&G Thanks Tom and Jeff. I had some good shop time on the Parker test bench and the dis-assembly and reassembly of a hydraulic piston pump(one of the pistons was broken).There was much more but I can't remember what I wrote.
Week 5
Hours 17-18
Week 5
Hours 17-18
SPQ 13 Owen
Wow! A very busy week for me! A lot of life's surprises outside school made it tough for me to spend as much time in the shop as I would have liked too. However I did manage to finish the Cat Basics Hydraulics, get a little bit more simulator time, finished Parker test bench and had some serious fun on the Bobcat.
The Cat Basics Hydraulics was very straight forward. I felt pretty comfortable reading simple Hydraulic schematics, yet when it came time to tell the difference between pumps in parallel and series I had some trouble but Cat Basics worked it out for me and now I got it.
The simulator time I had this week was pretty little. The control familiarization is easy in practice but much harder in exam, its hard to tell the heights when moving the bucket up or down. It was also hard to get on due to others needing to use it as well, yet I could have spent more time when I was on. To be honest I don't like the simulator at all, but I guess I got to just get through it. I need to put more time in and just do it.
I had some great learning with a few others on the Parker test bench on Wednesday. I finished up 1-10 and then 10-15 for fun. I had a few small set backs mostly due to me not reading the questions right, oops. I really do enjoy when I can work with some one who is on the same page as me when it comes to completing a task. Thanks Logan!
Friday Fun Day, Friday was fun! I definitely understand the whole reason and technique behind silver soldering, Thanks Jeff and all the others for the discussion. The Bobcat, now that was fun. It has been about 5 years since I have really touched hydraulic controls, I was a little touchy at first, but all those years of running cranes/booms/blocks/launchers/windlass/winches and everything else on fishing vessels of several sizes and fisheries came running back. I was able to stack 7 out of 8 tires the second time on and that felt nice.
Week 6
Hours 17
Total Hours 89
The Cat Basics Hydraulics was very straight forward. I felt pretty comfortable reading simple Hydraulic schematics, yet when it came time to tell the difference between pumps in parallel and series I had some trouble but Cat Basics worked it out for me and now I got it.
The simulator time I had this week was pretty little. The control familiarization is easy in practice but much harder in exam, its hard to tell the heights when moving the bucket up or down. It was also hard to get on due to others needing to use it as well, yet I could have spent more time when I was on. To be honest I don't like the simulator at all, but I guess I got to just get through it. I need to put more time in and just do it.
I had some great learning with a few others on the Parker test bench on Wednesday. I finished up 1-10 and then 10-15 for fun. I had a few small set backs mostly due to me not reading the questions right, oops. I really do enjoy when I can work with some one who is on the same page as me when it comes to completing a task. Thanks Logan!
Friday Fun Day, Friday was fun! I definitely understand the whole reason and technique behind silver soldering, Thanks Jeff and all the others for the discussion. The Bobcat, now that was fun. It has been about 5 years since I have really touched hydraulic controls, I was a little touchy at first, but all those years of running cranes/booms/blocks/launchers/windlass/winches and everything else on fishing vessels of several sizes and fisheries came running back. I was able to stack 7 out of 8 tires the second time on and that felt nice.
Week 6
Hours 17
Total Hours 89
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